Cat Eccles
Labour - Stourbridge
3,073 (7.7%) majority - 2024 General ElectionFirst elected: 4th July 2024
1 APPG membership (as of 20 Nov 2024)
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Cat Eccles voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 50 Labour No votes vs 59 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 138 Noes - 136
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
Department Debates
(3 debate contributions)
(2 debate contributions)
(2 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(29 words contributed)
Stourbridge Petitions
e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
of 138,286 signatures (0.17%)
of 141,421 signatures (0.11%)
of 121,204 signatures (0.10%)
of 138,286 signatures (0.17%)
of 141,421 signatures (0.11%)
of 121,204 signatures (0.10%)
of 79,937 signatures (0.12%)
Latest EDMs signed by Cat Eccles
Ofwat price review
Tabled by: Clive Lewis (Labour - Norwich South)That this House condemns the provisional approval by Ofwat of an average 21% above-inflation rise in water bills over five years designed to fund £88 billion in sewage infrastructure upgrades; notes that this follows water companies extracting £85 billion in shareholder profits since privatisation, while amassing £64.4 billion in debt; …
(Most recent: 17 Dec 2024)
Signatures by party:
Labour: 10
Independent: 3
Liberal Democrat: 2
Democratic Unionist Party: 1
Green Party: 1
Strengthening UK relations with the Kurdistan Region in Iraq
Tabled by: John Slinger (Labour - Rugby)That this House supports the Government’s recent agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq on migration, trafficking, and drug smuggling; further supports ever deeper diplomatic efforts by the UK and its allies to strengthen relations with Iraqi Kurdistan across diplomatic, military, educational, cultural, and business spheres; suggests that every …
(Most recent: 5 Dec 2024)
Signatures by party:
Labour: 3
Liberal Democrat: 1
Commons initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Cat Eccles, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Cat Eccles has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Cat Eccles has not been granted any Adjournment Debates
Cat Eccles has not introduced any legislation before Parliament
Cat Eccles has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 2 Written Questions
(View all written questions)We want operators to use existing underground ducts and share infrastructure, wherever possible. There are requirements on operators to share apparatus and to use underground lines where practicable; and there are regulations in place to support this.
The Government also published the Street Works Toolkit, which contains practical guidance for telecoms companies and highway authorities who coordinate street works in their area on how to keep disruption to a minimum.
I recently met with broadband operators to ask them to share infrastructure wherever possible, and I have been clear I am prepared to regulate if providers do not take action.
Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
A backlog in the provision of cash equivalent transfer values (CETVs) to members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme has been caused by two issues. Initially, an embargo was placed on the provision of CETVs by the public service pension schemes from March 2023 to July 2023. This was a result of the need for new factors to be calculated following a change to the Superannuation Contributions Adjusted for Past Experience (SCAPE) discount rate. Not all of those cases could be cleared by the scheme administrator before the Transitional Protection (McCloud) legislation took effect on 1 October 2023. For those members affected by Transitional Protection, further cross-scheme guidance was needed by the scheme administrator which created another significant period in which CETV cases could not be processed.
As of 20 November 2024, there are 1,952 CETV cases which have not been processed three months after the member applied.
The majority of these cases do not include scheme flexibilities and the scheme administrator currently estimates that such cases will all be cleared by the end of February 2025. The department is working with the scheme administrator to determine the likely timeframe for cases that involve flexibilities and the small cohort where guidance is being finalised. Consideration is being given to measures to reduce the timescales that members are waiting, including investigating the potential for any further automation of calculations, simplification of the CETV figures provided to the member and maximising the administrative resource available, for example through ongoing overtime.
Minister of State (Education)