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?
Commons
Oral Questions
24 June 2025
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation
On three occasions in answering this question the Minister has said that “Israel must”. What will he do if Israel does not?
Commons
Oral Questions
Work and Pensions
23 June 2025
Child Poverty
At the lobby last week by the food banks, a number of people expressed the wish to have greater facilities to educate their clients with respect to shopping and preparing meals more effectively. They make a fair point, don’t they?
Commons
Debate
17 June 2025
Crime and Policing Bill
There is a difference of principle on the question of human rights, because there are two lives involved in these decisions. That is the fundamental problem.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
4 June 2025
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Studied ambiguity of what and when has had no impact on Israeli policy. We want to know, and Israel needs to know, precisely what the Government mean by “further steps”.
Commons
Oral Questions
Scotland
4 June 2025
2 contributions
School Standards
5. What discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on school standards.
What has caused the system, which was once the benchmark for all others, to become such a disappointment?
Commons
Oral Questions
3 June 2025
Topical Questions
T5. Lord Hermer says that we are not even trying to reform the convention. Why not?
Commons
Debate
2 June 2025
UK Nuclear Deterrent
In pursuit of deterrence, will the Minister recommit to first use when either the strategic or tactical situation demands it?
Commons
Ministerial Statement
22 May 2025
Independent Sentencing Review
Respect for justice is diminished by the fiction of the judge announcing a sentence and those in the know then calculating on the back of a fag packet the fraction that it actually represents. Has this statement not reinforced that system with bells on?
Commons
Debate
21 May 2025
Business and the Economy
May I tell my hon. Friend why I think the hon. Member for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) is wrong? Since the very inception of our negotiations to join what was then the common market—now the European Union—it has attached huge importance to fishing. We have just handed over the enormous leverage of an…
Commons
Oral Questions
21 May 2025
2 contributions
Interim Custody Orders: Compensation
1. If he will take steps to ensure that compensation is not paid to people detained using interim custody orders during the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Will the Secretary of State withhold the remedial order until he is certain that he can deliver the Prime Minister’s pledge to prevent Gerry Adams from receiving compensation?
Commons
Oral Questions
Defence
19 May 2025
Topical Questions
Will the Secretary of State delay putting before the House the remedial order until he is certain that the Government have a way of delivering the Prime Minister’s commitment to preventing Gerry Adams from claiming compensation?
Commons
Debate
16 May 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The Bill does allow applicants to shop around for doctors, and it strikes me that there is a danger that some doctors, who might have an ideological view of the Bill, will specialise in the provision of that service, which would give it rather greater scope than the hon. Lady intends.
Commons
Proceedings
15 May 2025
Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits
Many domestic abusers will, given their nature, welcome the opportunity to give another twist of the knife at the cost of a mere 28 days. Has the Minister just presented them with a practical opportunity?
Commons
Proceedings
13 May 2025
UK-EU Summit
It is important to remember the history here. There was no common fisheries policy until the prospect of Britain’s joining the common market arose, and then those countries created one simply so that they could rip us off.
Commons
Ministerial Statement
6 May 2025
Middle East Update
The Minister has made the Government’s position crystal clear that the Israeli plan is unacceptable. How will British Government policy towards Israel change as that plan is implemented?