Commons
Oral Questions
Northern Ireland
8 July 2026
2 contributions
Troubles Legacy: Legislation
2. What steps he is taking to replace the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.
We were promised a substantial package of amendments and that the Bill would return to the House early in the Session. Is the delay occasioned by a pause for thought following the personal statement of the hon. Member for Birmingham Selly Oak (Al Carns) to the House? I certainly hope so.
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
1 July 2026
Engagements
Q11. Through omission or insufficient advice, injured veterans may fail to place their compensation in a trust within the one year allowed by universal credit. Can discretion be had in compassionate cases?
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
24 June 2026
Engagements
Q3. I hope there is still time in which the Prime Minister will be able to enlighten his party as to the moral of the cautionary tale of Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion.
Commons
Statutory Instrument
23 June 2026
Clergy Conduct Measure (HC 221)
I am as surprised as I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell, for I was nominated by the Committee of Ways and Means to chair the Committee, only then to discover that I was to have the pleasure and honour of serving on it.
This is a most welcome Measure because it reverses a ver…
Commons
Proceedings
15 June 2026
Defence Investment Plan
The Minister told us that the former Secretary of State had asked him to stay. Had he not been so asked, would he have resigned too? How much persuasion did it take? [Laughter.]
Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
11 June 2026
Passenger Rail Services
I dare not think how many years of my constituents’ lives have been given over to points failures and signal failures, and the confusion that follows, on the line between Waterloo and the south coast. What can Ministers do about it?
Commons
Proceedings
4 June 2026
Russian Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure
Given that our own infrastructure is under constant cyber-attack, will the hon. Lady reassure us that Russia would be right in understanding that no such attack will go unanswered, like for like?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
4 June 2026
Children’s Social Care: Enduring Relationships Strategy
Madam Deputy Speaker, you will know that, apart from the time when I was sitting on it, I have been unsparing in my criticism of the occupants of the Treasury Bench, irrespective of their party. Every now and again, however, there is a Minister who has a record of expertise and commitment to their b…
Commons
Oral Questions
Energy Security and Net Zero
2 June 2026
Voluntary Carbon and Nature Markets
Does the Minister plan to allow clean community energy companies to sell power directly to households and businesses?
Commons
Debate
27 April 2026
Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update
A referral to the Privileges Committee has always been considered a House matter—a matter for the individual judgment of Members of Parliament. It would be an abomination if it were to be whipped by either side, wouldn’t it?
Commons
Debate
20 April 2026
Security Vetting
On 4 February, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition asked the Prime Minister:
“did the official security vetting that he received mention Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with… Jeffrey Epstein?” —[ Official Report , 4 February 2026; Vol. 780, c. 259.]
The Prime Minister replied, “Yes,…
Commons
Oral Questions
Church Commissioners
16 April 2026
2 contributions
Project Spire
3. What recent discussions the Church has had with the Charity Commission on Project Spire.
Is the Church going to launch a new charity? If so, when, and why the delay?
Commons
Debate
26 March 2026
Local Government Reorganisation
There was only one voice demanding the sacrifice of part of the rural New Forest district—it was Labour in Southampton, wasn’t it?
Commons
Oral Questions
26 March 2026
Pothole Repairs: Government Funding
Can I declare my interest, having lost three tyres to potholes this year? What assessment has the Department made of the efficiency with which potholes are being filled? What on earth is it filling them with, because within weeks and sometimes days, a newly filled pothole is back again?
Commons
Debate
23 March 2026
Middle East
Does the Secretary of State have contacts at US Central Command that can give reassurance that there is a plan? The President’s social media feed gives the opposite impression. Is Britain at war?
Commons
Oral Questions
Solicitor General
19 March 2026
2 contributions
Courts and Tribunals Bill
2. Whether the Attorney General has advised the Lord Chancellor on the potential impact of the Courts and Tribunals Bill on the rule of law.
On 3 February, the Lord Chancellor undertook to model his proposals for jury trials and to publish the results. Has the modelling been done and when will the results be published?
Commons
Oral Questions
19 March 2026
Statutory Right to Food
Is this a wind-up, Mr Speaker? They will be asking for collective farms in this socialist paradise next. Has the Minister made any assessment of the impact that a right to food would have on the public purse once our activist judges got hold of it?
Commons
Proceedings
18 March 2026
2 contributions
Student Loans
I’ve got a short one!
The Minister’s hon. Friend, the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel), asked a perfectly reasonable question about looking at the thing in the round, and her answer was that she would take the conversation forward. I think we need more than that.
Commons
Oral Questions
16 March 2026
Strait of Hormuz
What is the Minister’s latest assessment of the threat of transnational oppression carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
10 March 2026
Digital ID: Public Consultation
I am almost speechless! This House is the properly accountable people’s panel, not some collection of stooges and trustees selected by the Minister. In any event, it is no good him telling us it is asleep—this parrot is dead, killed by lack of trust in the Government after the whole saga of Labour T…