Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
15 December 2025
Topical Questions
As we have come away empty-handed from the Security Action for Europe instrument, can we have the fish back?
Commons
Debate
10 December 2025
Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
The political reality is that this Government have been dead in the water since they failed to get their very modest reduction in the rate of growth of the benefits bill through Parliament earlier in the year. We saw the ridiculous nonsense in the Budget when, having sacked and suspended Back Benche…
Commons
Proceedings
8 December 2025
Restriction of Jury Trials
My maths teacher always required us to show our workings. Last week, the Secretary of State told us that only 3% of prosecutions proceed to jury trials. How can marginally reducing such a small proportion produce the savings that have been identified? Will the Minister publish the modelling?
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 December 2025
2 contributions
Gambling: Regulatory Reform
Order. Can I suggest eight minutes to start? I call Gareth Snell.
I call Lee Dillon. It seems he is not here, so I call Cameron Thomas.
Commons
Proceedings
27 November 2025
Right to Trial by Jury
Quod erat demonstrandum. Yesterday, it was made abundantly clear that the Government’s priority is the recipient of benefits, way ahead of any consideration of victims, was it not?
Commons
Debate
26 November 2025
4 contributions
Budget Resolutions
I congratulate the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell). She caught my eye earlier when she was cheering the Chancellor with great enthusiasm, even more so than her colleagues who were making a pretty good fist of it. I recall cheering a Chancellor during a Budget speech—
Notwithstanding the misgivings that I had, I cheered with gusto. Somewhat later, I found myself on a train to Oxford to defend the Government in the annual Oxford Union debate of no confidence. While on the train, I received the news that the Chancellor who I had been cheering had been sacked—not a …
+2 more contributions in this session
Commons
Ministerial Statement
25 November 2025
G20 and Ukraine
What indication was there that Putin would accept even the earlier iteration of this agreement?
Commons
Debate
18 November 2025
2 contributions
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill
How confident is the Secretary of State that his provisions for preventing compensation for interim custody orders will withstand challenge in the courts, and would the Government’s case be undermined in any way by their decision not to challenge the original ruling in the High Court?
Even if the Supreme Court had opined on the matter and judged it to be incompatible, that would not have changed the law. This House is not required to respond in any way to a declaration of incompatibility by a court. This House remains supreme.
Commons
Proceedings
18 November 2025
Point of Order
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Further to your earlier observation that if hon. Members had asked shorter questions during the previous statement, so many would not have been disappointed, there was a time when if a Member read from a piece of paper when asking a question, there would be…
Commons
Debate
17 November 2025
Asylum Policy
As the Home Secretary struggles to find these return hubs, she should reflect on the fact that it was her Government who wasted £700 million by giving up an opportunity to Germany and the United States before we got the chance to use it.
Commons
Debate
17 November 2025
Budget: Press Briefings
Given the blatant breach of pre-Budget purdah, will the Chancellor follow the proper example set by Hugh Dalton?
Commons
Debate
13 November 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Is not the principal difficulty that so many housing developments have now become unprofitable, and that is why they are not being proceeded with? It is the costs that have been loaded on builders in the last 15 months.
Commons
Oral Questions
13 November 2025
Topical Questions
T7. Why has capital investment in agriculture collapsed? It is the family farm tax, isn’t it?
Commons
Debate
12 November 2025
Taxes
No, it was definitely the Korean war!
Commons
Ministerial Statement
5 November 2025
Curriculum and Assessment Review
This is education in the clouds when contrasted with the reality of a war against elitism, which is so often actually a war against excel-ism on the ground, is it not?
Commons
Debate
4 November 2025
Supporting High Streets
Growth, increased turnover and increased profits for microbusinesses should be a cause for celebration, but the reality is that crossing the reduced VAT threshold can be a disaster. So many suppliers of small businesses are themselves small businesses; there is no VAT that they can reclaim, so it ca…
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 November 2025
Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation
I will call only Sir Ashley Fox and the Minister to make speeches. There will not be an opportunity for Sir Ashley to sum up after the debate.
Commons
Westminster Hall
4 November 2025
5 contributions
Official Development Assistance Reductions
I call Sarah Champion. I suggest five minutes.
Order. I suggest four minutes from now on.
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Debate
28 October 2025
2 contributions
Stamp Duty Land Tax
The hon. Lady referred to the trade deals—so many more than were achieved under the Conservative Government, she says—but the reality is that those trade deals could not have been made had we not had the Brexit deal that we achieved when in government. What is more, the Labour party opposed that dea…
I am still smarting from my hon. Friend’s reluctance to squash the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Rachel Blake), who alleged that there had been no leasehold reform. Such was the extent of leasehold reform under Conservative Governments that the Duke of Westminster resigned from t…
Commons
Debate
27 October 2025
North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
Has the Minister made any estimate of the likely impact on Petrofac and similar enterprises of the extension of the energy profits levy?
Commons
Proceedings
23 October 2025
Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s Office
None of it makes sense—not the collapsed trial, Chagos or the embassy—but, as my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) says, it all makes sense if the Government have prioritised a strategic relationship with communist China, does it not?
Commons
Westminster Hall
23 October 2025
3 contributions
Building Safety Regulator
Order. I suggest a time limit of five minutes. Mr Tice, do you wish to speak?
Oh, I see. That is very gracious of you. We will have Mr Mike Reader then.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
21 October 2025
2 contributions
Sentencing Bill
The active management of the prison service at those levels of occupation was of course hard work, but that hard work was absolutely necessary, and far preferable to simply taking a view that we will not have all those criminals in prison at all. The reality is that what we are doing now is much wor…
The importance of the sunset clause is that it relieves the monstrous contradiction we have had from the Government. They have presented this legislation as an emergency measure because the prisons are too full, yet at the same time they boast about their great, expansive prison-building programme. …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
14 October 2025
Northern Ireland Troubles
Like the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State should stop using the phrase, “The legislation was struck down by the courts.” The courts have no such power. As Jack Straw made clear from the Dispatch Box, a declaration of incompatibility is no more than a declaration; it places no obligation or exp…