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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
Commons
Oral Questions
3 July 2025
2 contributions
Charities: National Insurance Contributions
8. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to employer national insurance contributions on charities.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations puts the cost at £1.4 billion. That is right, isn’t it?
Commons
Committee Stage
2 July 2025
Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill
We have had Borstals and approved schools, neither of which were particularly successful at reforming those who were in custody in them. Is the Minister confident that this new architecture, this new arrangement, will be more successful?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2025
Welfare Reform
To describe it as fair and equal to treat people with identical conditions differently purely on the basis of whether they are an existing recipient of benefits is Orwellian newspeak on stilts, isn’t it?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
26 June 2025
G7 and NATO Summits
Was there any discussion about the killing zones that currently constitute the provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza?
Commons
Westminster Hall
25 June 2025
2 contributions
Flags: Public Buildings
I remind hon. Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge and the Minister. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.
I call the Minister, in the time that remains to you.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
24 June 2025
China Audit
It was proper and lawful to send HMS Spey through the Taiwan strait in pursuit of vital international freedom of navigation in the South China sea, was it not, and can we see more like it?