Recent speeches, debates, and oral and written questions in the House of Commons
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My latest news – more updates here
- Reacting to the Government’s cruel benefits bill
- ‘Ella’s Law’ to make clean air a human right will be re-introduced to Parliament
- 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
My latest publications – see more letters and reports here
- Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council on Marilyn Manson Performance
- 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
My recent work in Parliament – see more entries here
- To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide British citizens in Tehran with the necessary authorisation to […]
- It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. This is not my first Public Bill Committee, but I will certainly benefit from your guidance on the particulars […]
- In contrast to the Minister, I fully support the decision that has been made by the major Pride organisations to tell us that as political parties we are not welcome […]
- On the proscription of Palestine Action, I remind the Minister that there are number of recent examples of juries finding defendants, in cases similar to the Brize Norton incident, not […]
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has for departmental funding arrangements for the recruitment of 8,500 additional mental health workers.
- If she will take steps to reduce the number of prosecutions brought for non-violent drug-related offences.
- As drug-related deaths are now at record levels, particularly because of the increase in synthetic opioids, I believe that we need to look again at supervised drug-consumption facilities, which…
- I will not be able to speak to all the amendments that Members have worked so hard on and that I have supported so many times by putting my name […]
- I rise to speak to amendments 4 to 8 on child criminal exploitation. I thank the right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) and the hon. Member for […]
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Brighton Pavilion constituency on 9 June 2025.