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Division Vote (Commons)
2 Jul 2025 - Prisons - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 326 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 168
Division Vote (Commons)
1 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 333 Labour Aye votes vs 49 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 335 Noes - 260
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Parental Leave Review

"As I welcome the Minister’s announcement, I think of the HGV driver who I met recently who said that he was not able to take time off to be with his partner and their newborn baby. Will the Minister assure me and all my constituents that the new rights will …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
1 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 325 Labour No votes vs 42 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 149 Noes - 328
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Following the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Derby North (Catherine Atkinson), last week the Casey review showed us yet again that private hire vehicles are a dangerous place for many children and young people. Nationally in 2023, 96% of taxi licences were issued in one local …..."
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Written Question
Taxis: Licensing
Thursday 26th June 2025

Asked by: Antonia Bance (Labour - Tipton and Wednesbury)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to take steps to review taxi licensing in the context of the findings of the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department for Transport will legislate to address the important issues raised in Baroness Casey’s report, tackling the inconsistent standards of taxi and private hire vehicle driver licensing. We will work as quickly as possible and consider all options – including out of area working, national standards and enforcement – seeking the best overall outcomes for passenger safety.

In the interim we will act urgently to make improvements, including consulting on making local transport authorities, including combined authorities, responsible for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing, and determining how existing statutory guidance can be strengthened to further protect the public. We are also reviewing authorities’ compliance with existing guidance and will hold those who do not follow it to account.

Some important protections have already been put in place since earlier inquiries into Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. All licensing authorities in England now undertake extensive driver background checks, and since 2023

they are required to use a single database to prevent a driver refused a licence in one area on safety grounds going elsewhere. Careful consideration of the options is needed as we do not want any change to decrease the availability of highly vetted licensed drivers and vehicles and inadvertently increase the use of those offering illegal services that evade these licensing checks.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
UK Modern Industrial Strategy

"Representing Tipton, the birthplace of the first industrial revolution, I hugely welcome this industrial strategy and its 1.1 million good jobs. I am particularly pleased to see the Black Country singled out as a centre of clean-energy industries. We recently welcomed £45 million of investment in Eku Energy’s new battery …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 160 Labour No votes vs 224 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 314 Noes - 291
Division Vote (Commons)
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 122 Labour No votes vs 198 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 274 Noes - 224
Division Vote (Commons)
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Antonia Bance (Lab) voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 114 Labour No votes vs 199 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 275 Noes - 209