Recent speeches, debates, and oral and written questions in the House of Commons
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My latest news – more updates here
- Responding to Liz Kendall’s defence of disability cuts
- Welcoming an apparent U-turn on winter fuel payments
- Reacting to Labour’s Green Paper on welfare reform
- Writing to all Labour MPs urging them to vote against cruel welfare cuts
- Defending new Sentencing Council guidelines
- Labour should listen to the public on Gatwick expansion
My latest publications – see more letters and reports here
- My Submission to Ofcom’s Universal Service Obligation consultation About Royal Mail
- Letter to Liz Kendall about proposed welfare cuts
- Letter to Labour MPs on proposed cuts to welfare benefits
- My comments on Brighton and Hove City Council’s consultation on school admission arrangements.
- Green MPs spending review submission
- Letter to Minister of State for Social Security and Disability on the Work Capability Assessment
My recent work in Parliament – see more entries here
- In the city of Brighton and Hove, my constituents tell me they need more and cleaner buses, and more reliable trains and stations without barriers to people with children, older […]
- I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I understand that Ministers are focused on wider marriage reform, but there is a much quicker […]
- If she will take steps to allow humanist celebrants to conduct legally binding weddings.
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of legislation relating to peaceful protest.
- It is a pleasure to take part in this debate under your wing, Mr Mundell. I too thank John Baic for launching this petition and congratulate him on getting enough […]
- I will speak only briefly, as I spoke in favour of the Bill on Second Reading in November, my name is on it, and I have long supported the campaigns […]
- I am sorry, but I am on my last paragraph. Those measures are effectively barriers to helping eligible people make their own choice for when and how to die at […]
- To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the Royal Collection Trust on the potential merits of publishing a list of […]
- To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the Royal Collection Trust on the ownership of the Royal Stamp Collection.
- To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Building Regulation Approved Document T: Toilet Accommodation, last updated on 1 October 2024, if…