Commons
Oral Questions
11 November 2025
Topical Questions
Old Windsor is a small village in my constituency with an approved premises that has morphed to include high-risk offenders. It causes problems. Does the Minister agree that, first, probation services have responsibility for residents’ behaviour when they are outside that facility and, secondly, the…
Commons
Oral Questions
Women and Equalities
5 November 2025
2 contributions
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion: Public Sector
4. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of diversity, equality and inclusion schemes in the public sector.
Earlier this year, the Education Secretary said that white working-class boys “have been betrayed”, yet this summer, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ ran an internship scheme that was open only to people from ethnic minority backgrounds. I am afraid the House of Commons runs a similar scheme, in partnership with t…
Commons
Debate
4 November 2025
5 contributions
Supporting High Streets
Every MP in this place thinks that they have the best constituency in the United Kingdom, but I am afraid that only one of us can be correct. Perhaps with the exception of Romsey and Southampton North, Madam Deputy Speaker, the best constituency must be Windsor, with its beautiful towns and villages…
The point was well made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat) that there are people who benefit from the minimum wage and new rights, but thousands of jobs will never exist as a result of the measures. We have to be cognisant of that in this House. All those measures are i…
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Commons
Oral Questions
4 November 2025
Remote Betting and Gaming Duty: Horseracing
Both Ascot and Royal Windsor racecourses are incredibly important to my constituency. I have visited both, and I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. On this issue, I urge the Minister to heed warnings from across the House and, more importantly, the industry.…
Commons
Debate
28 October 2025
6 contributions
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Will the hon. Member reflect on the fact that one in six people in this country on universal credit are not British citizens? How would he justify that to his constituents?
I agree with the hon. Member wholeheartedly, and he is making an excellent speech, but I would gently say that lots of us in the shires who face Liberal Democrats in our constituencies get leaflets from his colleagues that oppose building almost anywhere, ever. What would he say about that to some o…
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Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
28 October 2025
2 contributions
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago: Funding
12. How much and what proportion of the funding due to be allocated to Mauritius as part of the agreement concerning the Chagos archipelago will come from her Department’s budget.
In what proportion?
Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
22 October 2025
2 contributions
Scottish Independence Referendum
5. What his policy is on holding a referendum on Scottish independence.
I thank the Secretary of State for his unequivocal rejection of separatism. He will always find on the Conservative side fellow colleagues who treasure this United Kingdom and want to shout about the most successful alliance in political history. What specific steps can he take to prevent more taxpa…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
13 October 2025
Manchester Terrorism Attack
When we allow Islamist hate preachers such as Sheikh Alafasy to do speaking tours, it is no wonder British Jews in the UK no longer feel safe. In January, he had a platform at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, despite the Jewish Representative Council raising its concerns. They were ignored. In th…
Commons
Oral Questions
Justice
16 September 2025
2 contributions
Prison Safety
4. What steps he is taking to improve the safety of the prison estate.
Thousands of drones are being used to smuggle contraband such as weapons and drugs into prisons. Locally, I have met leading security company Preventive Concepts Security. The shadow Lord Chancellor was good enough to visit it in France to see its technology in action, detecting and disabling drones…
Commons
Debate
4 September 2025
6 contributions
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Declare an interest!
I rise to speak to Lords amendments 1 and 8, and therefore against the motion, in two minds. I say in two minds because I find the unilateral removal of the hereditary peers without seeking consensus, which is what a rejection of Lords amendment 1 would mean, both regrettable and exciting. I would l…
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Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
3 September 2025
Engagements
Q12. Like many, I was deeply concerned that a police force deemed it necessary to take five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer from a flight. Some may have found Mr Linehan’s comments offensive, but that is not the point. If we do not support speech that we do not like, we do not support free …
Commons
Debate
21 July 2025
Victory over Japan: 80th Anniversary
It is through our veterans that our collective memory of the second world war is best preserved, but as their bright flame is flickering it is important that a new generation—my generation—commits to re-telling their stories.
As a schoolboy, one of the pieces of work that has stuck with me the most…
Commons
Proceedings
11 July 2025
Colne Valley Regional Park: Protection
The proposals for a third runway at Heathrow would take 900 acres of the regional park directly, not to mention the indirect consequences, including Colnbrook and Horton in my constituency, which would be irreparable. Does my hon. Friend condemn the Chancellor pressing the panic button and inflictin…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
1 July 2025
Topical Questions
T7. We all know that there is a difference between welfare cuts and welfare reforms. These cuts were the maths of Treasury mandarins. It is the same thinking that saw winter fuel payments taken from pensioners. Now that the Government have U-turned on both of those, when will they finally back Br…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2025
Glastonbury Festival: BBC Coverage
Had those chants called for the deaths of people of any other nationality or ethnicity, there is no question in my mind that the live feed would have been pulled straightaway. I welcome the Secretary of State’s robust statement, but does she agree that this problem is systemic, and that there has be…
Commons
Committee Stage
17 June 2025
2 contributions
Victims and Courts Bill (Second sitting)
Q Just to pick up on this point, as well as tabling the extension to 56 days, the Opposition have also taken up the point that the witnesses mentioned about awareness. With amendment 12, we are trying to create an obligation for the Crown Prosecution Service to write to victims within 10 working day…
Q As the official Opposition, we have tabled an amendment to increase the force with which the justice system can compel the convicted to come to their sentencing hearings. We are particularly keen to make sure there is a duty to consult the victim or their family, where the victim is deceased. Is t…
Commons
Committee Stage
17 June 2025
8 contributions
Victims and Courts Bill (First sitting)
Q A quick question: would you support the publication of sentencing remarks to support transparency, and to enable victims to reflect on what was said in court?
Sarah Hammond: Ultimately, that is a matter for the Government. There is clearly an argument for victims to be able to see that justice ha…
Q I have a question for Baroness Newlove, in the first instance. I understand that there are new measures in the Bill that allow you to look into individual cases for the first time. Is that something you broadly welcome, and how do you envisage that working?
Baroness Newlove: I broadly welcome it,…
+6 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
16 June 2025
2 contributions
Antisemitism on University Campuses
1. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of StandWithUs UK’s “Voice of Students 2024/25” report on antisemitism on university campuses.
What StandWithUs UK sets out in its report into antisemitism and support for terrorism at British universities is a source of national shame. It is high time that we heeded the stipulation in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition that so-called anti-Zionism is nothing less th…
Commons
Oral Questions
Wales
11 June 2025
2 contributions
Nuclear Power
7. What discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on the future of nuclear power in Wales.
Wales has incredible potential for the next generation of nuclear, but Labour’s announcement yesterday is a fraction of what is needed. Green baseload power that stabilises our grid enhances power generation, as it has done before in Anglesey. Will the Minister give a clearer answer today to confirm…
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
10 June 2025
Topical Questions
T9. Research from Centrica, which is headquartered on my patch, shows that Hive has saved domestic customers half a billion pounds on their energy bills since its inception. Does the Secretary of State agree that smart data, which gives consumers the ability to control their energy use without the n…
Commons
Oral Questions
Housing, Communities and Local Government
9 June 2025
Topical Questions
I broadly support unitarisation on a strategic scale, but I am concerned about how historic debts will be treated in Surrey, especially those of Woking and Spelthorne councils. How will those debts be handled as our councils come together, and will the Minister assure my constituents in Virginia Wat…
Commons
Proceedings
14 May 2025
Gaza: UK Assessment
I thank the Minister for his clarity that genocide is a legal test of whether a crime has been committed
“with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.
That is exactly what the Hamas terrorist group state in their foundational charter: the intent to d…
Commons
Proceedings
13 May 2025
UK-EU Summit
I start by paying a small tribute to the Government because just last week they passed secondary legislation, albeit made possible by the Conservatives’ groundbreaking Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, that will mean more resilient crops, further food choices and enhanced food securi…
Commons
Oral Questions
6 May 2025
2 contributions
Maternity Improvement Strategy
1. What assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing a national maternity improvement strategy.
Last year’s birth trauma inquiry report exposed that maternity services in this country are woefully underfunded, and now the Health Secretary intends to cut the budget for maternity improvement from £95 million to just £2 million, equating to less than £4 per child born in this country each year. W…