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…
Commons
Debate
16 September 2025
3 contributions
Ambassador to the United States
I have some advice for the hon. Member for Rugby: those that lick the feet of the unworthy gain for themselves nothing but a dirty tongue. [ Laughter. ]
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
15 September 2025
5 contributions
Employment Rights Bill
On that point, will the Minister give way?
Let me take the Secretary of State back to zero-hours contracts. The seasonality of the hospitality industry and, indeed, boat building down in my constituency, where large numbers of students are taken on, means that scheduling for guaranteed hours is very difficult, particularly when those student…
+3 more contributions in this session
Commons
Oral Questions
Treasury
9 September 2025
2 contributions
Government Debt Interest Payments
23. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of Government debt interest payments on public finances.
So why does the Chancellor think that the United Kingdom is being charged more in interest even than Greece?
Commons
Oral Questions
Women and Equalities
3 September 2025
Topical Questions
T3. Why has the Minister chosen to champion the rights of the residents of the Bell hotel over those of the local community?
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 September 2025
3 contributions
Eating Disorders: Prevention of Deaths
Order. There will be a formal time limit of one and a half minutes, and I will not be able to call everyone.
Order.
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 September 2025
2 contributions
Violence against Women and Girls: Pornography Prostitution
I will call Joani Reid to move the motion, and I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind Members that they may make a speech only with the prior permission of the mover of the motion and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the mover of the motion to sum up afterwards.
Order. I urge the hon. Member to give the Minister some time to respond.
Commons
Westminster Hall
2 September 2025
The Battle of Britain
I suggest six minutes for Back-Bench speeches.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Ukraine
Given the red carpet treatment afforded to Putin, will the Secretary of State remind our principal ally that it is our co-signatory to the Budapest memorandum?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Middle East
What action will His Majesty’s Government take if the Government of Israel proceed with their plan to build in the E1 corridor?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Borders and Asylum
The only effective measure of the Government’s actions is the number of crossings, isn’t it?
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
16 July 2025
Engagements
Q2. Jack Straw told us that the Human Rights Act 1998 places on us no expectation that we will remedy a declaration of incompatibility issued by a court, so the Prime Minister is wrong to say that the legacy Act is struck down. His own proposals, which open the door to compensation to Gerry Adams an…
Commons
Debate
15 July 2025
Welfare Spending
On the question of facts, will the Minister give way?
Commons
Westminster Hall
14 July 2025
Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution
When Jack Straw introduced the Bill that became the Human Rights Act 1998, he made it clear from the Dispatch Box, in terms, that Parliament was not under any obligation, in any way, to introduce a remedial order after a declaration of incompatibility by a court. There is no need to win another cour…
Commons
Oral Questions
10 July 2025
2 contributions
UK-EU Trading Relationship
15. What assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new UK-EU trading relationship.
Yesterday on “Farming Today” at 5.45 am, it was put to a shellfish farmer that it was going to become much easier for her to export her produce to the European Union. Her response was, “Yes, but we are told that the changes will be two or perhaps four years away, if they happen at all.” Given what w…
Commons
Debate
8 July 2025
Government Resilience Action Plan
Will the preparations take into account the lasting, disastrous consequences of lockdown, and the blithering absurdity of face coverings?
Commons
Oral Questions
Church Commissioners
3 July 2025
2 contributions
Project Spire
6. What statutory powers the Church plans to use to facilitate Project Spire.
A number of Members this morning have lobbied for expenditure to repair their churches, and the hon. Lady has told them to lobby the Government—the Department for Culture, Media and Sport—for that money. At the same time, the Church has already spent £5 million on this project, with the aspiration o…