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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Welfare Reform

"The Bill still leaves over £3.5 billion of cuts falling on disabled people and unpaid carers, with hundreds of thousands of new claimants set to lose thousands of pounds each year. Protections for existing claimants are welcome, but a two-tier system will generate hardship for many and create societal divisions. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Government raise with the F-35 joint program office or the joint executive steering board the human rights breaches and the possibility of suspending Israel’s access while maintaining supplies to other customers?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Ministers have highlighted that the PIP recipients who are expected to lose payments make up one in 10 of the total PIP caseload. That suggests that the impact of the cuts will be limited, but it still represents 370,000 current recipients, who are expected to lose £4,500 on average. However, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Jun 2025
HS2 Reset

"As shadow Transport Secretary for four years, I was wholly supportive of this concept. I just want to correct the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage), who completely misunderstands its basis. As I am sure the Secretary of State agrees, the purpose was to deliver capacity for the north of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Disabled People in Poverty

"In my constituency, 23,000 people receive universal credit and 11,000 receive PIP. I have asked what impact the changes will have on people going into poverty or being helped into work, and I have had very few answers. Estimates from Health Equity North show that the changes will amount to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Nuclear Power: Investment

"Happy birthday, Mr Speaker. I welcome the Government’s commitment to securing our future energy supply and, by doing so, taking control of our energy, protecting family finances and tackling the climate crisis. In addition, I am keen to learn about the Department’s assessment of new technological developments to reduce energy …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

"The Minister was absolutely right: our dispute and anger is not with the Israeli people but with their leaders, who use their murderous forces to inflict this annihilation on the Palestinian people. The Minister has said that sanctions are not remedies, and that they are an expression of our opinion, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Regional Growth

"I very much welcome the Labour Government’s delivery of £1 billion of investment for the Tees Valley, and particularly the £60 million for the third platform at Middlesbrough station. The money to increase the station’s capacity, which I hope will mean increasing the number of direct trains to London, will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

"It is increasingly accepted that Israel’s military operation in Gaza, having forcibly displaced and starved millions of Palestinians and killed tens of thousands, amounts to a genocide. The latest feature of that is its aid distribution process, which today does not deliver aid; instead, it is a dehumanising death trap …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 May 2025
School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations

"May I declare my interest as the very proud father of Rosie, a foundation stage teacher? This Government showed what Labour is about when they came in and immediately awarded an above-inflation 5.5% pay rise to teachers, to start clawing back after the demeaning and disrespectful public sector cuts of …..."
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