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…
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
10 March 2026
Topical Questions
T8. The Chancellor said that she will meet representatives of the North sea oil industry to see how it can help. The proper question is how she can help it, is it not?
Commons
Oral Questions
9 March 2026
Immigration Policy
Where will we send an illegal entrant with no right to remain but whose country of origin is unsafe?
Commons
Oral Questions
Work and Pensions
9 March 2026
2 contributions
Unemployment
18. What assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment.
The Government loaded costs on to employers while the benefits bill let rip. What on earth did they think would happen?
Commons
Oral Questions
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
3 March 2026
West Bank: Illegal Settlements
The Minister is absolutely right: Israel must stop. What estimate has he made of the time that we have before a separate Palestinian state becomes, geographically and economically, utterly untenable?
Commons
Oral Questions
Education
2 March 2026
Topical Questions
T4. Instead of the Secretary of State’s cap on the number of branded items of school uniform, will she substitute that for a monetary cap, which would afford much greater flexibility to schools?
Commons
Oral Questions
26 February 2026
Topical Questions
T2. My hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French) has drawn our attention to the fact that Sport England is losing its consultee status. This is at a time when sports clubs are facing business rate increases of as much as 46%. Are Ministers alive to the prospect of sporting facilit…
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 February 2026
3 contributions
Local Transport: Planning Developments
Order. I suggest a time limit of four minutes to start with.
I call Chris Bloore.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 February 2026
Banking Hubs: Rural and Post-Industrial Communities
I will call Ann Davies to move the motion and I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the mover of the motion and the Minister. As no other Member has approached the Minister, nobody else will be speaking, unless it…
Commons
Westminster Hall
24 February 2026
5 contributions
EU Membership Referendum: Impact on the UK
Order. There will be a two-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches. I will begin calling Front Benchers for the wind-ups at quarter-past 5.
Order.
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Transport
12 February 2026
2 contributions
Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate
1. Whether she plans to retain the zero emission vehicle mandate.
Even the UK gigafactory commission, chaired by a former Labour Secretary of State, says that the ZEV mandate is disincentivising investment in UK motor manufacturing. We all know that U-turns are a sign of open-mindedness and strength. Can we please have another?
Commons
Debate
11 February 2026
3 contributions
Local Government Finance
That is nothing new. In every one of the last 29 years, people who are lucky enough to have a modest property in the New Forest and a mansion in the city have come to me to complain about how much more their modest property in the forest costs them in council tax. I have told them that the one is su…
May I tell the hon. Gentleman about austerity?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
10 February 2026
2 contributions
Household Energy Bills
1. What steps his Department is taking to reduce household energy bills.
We were promised a reduction in bills of £300, but they have actually gone up by just shy of £200. The impact assessment of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026, which we passed last week, states:
“we estimate that cost-pass through for most sectors could feasibly be a…
Commons
Oral Questions
9 February 2026
Jimmy Lai: Prison Sentence
I say to the hon. Member for North Northumberland (David Smith) and to the Minister that this is not party political—the last Government were as bad, if not worse.
The Minister spoke about condemnation in the strongest terms. That is a complete waste of breath; the Chinese Government understand one…
Commons
Debate
28 January 2026
Youth Unemployment
Can I tempt my hon. Friend with another very simple belief, which is that unemployment is like any other commodity: the more one pays for it, the more one will have of it?
Commons
Debate
21 January 2026
3 contributions
Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I just ask the Secretary of State to acknowledge that the Committee’s opinion was not unanimous.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
20 January 2026
Chinese Embassy
China is notoriously transactional in its international relations, so what do we get in return?