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Information between 20th July 2025 - 8th October 2025

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Division Votes
2 Sep 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 352 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 365 Noes - 164
2 Sep 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 352 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 367
3 Sep 2025 - Property Taxes - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 322 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 98 Noes - 335
3 Sep 2025 - Hospitality Sector - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 325 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 158 Noes - 334
4 Sep 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 261 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 338 Noes - 74
4 Sep 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 262 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 336 Noes - 77
4 Sep 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context
Gill Furniss voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 265 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 331 Noes - 73


Speeches
Gill Furniss speeches from: Duty of Candour for Public Authorities and Legal Representation for Bereaved Families
Gill Furniss contributed 1 speech (448 words)
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Justice
Gill Furniss speeches from: Speciality Steel UK: Insolvency
Gill Furniss contributed 1 speech (165 words)
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade


Written Answers
Cancer: Screening
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Monday 21st July 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will include measures to expand innovations in cancer screening initiatives to ensure more people from deprived areas are encouraged to participate.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Early diagnosis is a key focus of the National Cancer Plan, which will build on the shifts in care set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, to diagnose cancers earlier. Through the 10-Year Health Plan, we will make it easier for people to access cancer screening, diagnostics, and treatment in patients’ local areas, backed by the latest technology to drive up this country’s cancer survival rates. We will increase participation in screening programmes by taking innovative approaches like self-sampling for cervical screening and digital booking.

The National Cancer Plan, to be published later this year, will include further details on how we will speed up diagnosis, as well as how we will prioritise screening programmes and improve participation, including participation from people in deprived areas.

Smoking: Health Services
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Monday 21st July 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to implement automatic enrolment into stop smoking support at (a) A&E departments, (b) cancer screening appointments, (c) mental health services and (d) other NHS touchpoints (i) across Yorkshire and (ii) nationally.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

As set out in our 10-Year Health Plan for England, we are committed to ensuring all hospitals integrate ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation interventions into routine care. As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England has prioritised and put new funding out to integrated care boards (ICBs), which includes Humber and Yorkshire ICB, South Yorkshire ICB and West Yorkshire ICB, for the rollout of tobacco dependence services in hospital settings, including acute and mental health inpatient settings and maternity services. Future funding decisions are subject to the Spending Review process.

Cancer: Research
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that regions where (a) cancer outcomes are poorer and (b) research infrastructure is historically underfunded receive a fair share of national cancer research investment and clinical trial opportunities.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department is committed to funding health and care research via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) across England, and to ensuring that the research we support is inclusive and representative of the populations we serve.  We know that cancer survival rates are generally lower in people living in more deprived areas.

In 2024, the NIHR made equity, diversity, and inclusion a condition of funding for all domestic research awards. This means applicants must demonstrate how their research will contribute towards the NIHR’s mission to reduce health and care inequalities, with a focus on participant inclusion from diverse populations of the United Kingdom.

NIHR research infrastructure has national coverage across the whole of England. Our infrastructure schemes aim to build research capacity and capability across the country across all geographies and settings. In line with prior commitments, the Department has increased funding for research infrastructure schemes delivering cancer research outside the Greater South East, including Biomedical Research Centres, Clinical Research Facilities, and HealthTech Research Centres.

Through the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN), the NIHR supports 100% of National Health Service trusts in England to deliver research, operating across 12 regions throughout the country. From 2026/27, the RDN will adopt a new national funding model for NHS support costs and research delivery. This will be a consistent, nationally agreed funding distribution model across all regions of England and will reduce regional variations of health research delivery investment, and better enable clinical trial opportunities across all areas, including underserved areas and settings.

The NIHR also provides an online service called Be Part of Research which promotes participation in health and social care research by allowing users to search for relevant studies and register their interest. This makes it easier for people to find and take part in health and care research that is relevant to them.

Cancer: Rehabilitation
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of expanding prehabilitation and rehabilitation services in cancer care on (a) NHS costs and (b) patient outcomes.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department and NHS England are taking a number of steps to support systems to deliver cost-effective, lifesaving prehabilitation and rehabilitation services. Local planning for prehabilitation and rehabilitation services is devolved to National Health Service trusts and Cancer Alliances in their locality.

NHS England has highlighted the positive impact of efficient prehabilitation and rehabilitation on cancer outcomes and the potential for them to lead to cost savings. The PRosPer Cancer Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation learning programme, launched in partnership between NHS England and Macmillan Cancer support, aims to support allied health professionals and the wider healthcare workforce in developing their skills in providing personalised care, prehabilitation, and rehabilitation in the cancer pathway.

The forthcoming National Cancer Plan will look at how we can improve patient outcomes and will cover the entirety of the cancer pathway, from referral and diagnosis to treatment and ongoing care, including prehabilitation and rehabilitation services where appropriate.

Heart Diseases: Diagnosis
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures in the NHS 10 Year Plan will support earlier diagnosis of heart valve disease in primary and community care settings.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The 10-Year Health Plan sets out the three big shifts the National Health Service needs to be fit for the future: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention. All three shifts are relevant to improving outcomes for those experiencing heart valve disease.

More tests and scans delivered in the community, better joint working between services, and greater use of apps and wearable technology will all help people manage their conditions closer to home and help to reduce hospital admissions.

In line with the goals of the 10-Year Health Plan, NHS England has already undertaken measures to improve earlier detection of heart valve disease (HVD). It is commissioning the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society to develop a new referral form to support the investigation of HVD. The referral form is to guide primary healthcare teams to confidently refer patients with suspected, or known, valve disease for specialist assessment and/or echocardiography, where appropriate.

NHS England is also establishing an Expert Advisory Group on HVD which brings together experts and key stakeholders from across the United Kingdom, with the aim of ensuring excellence in care whilst exploring ways to improve heart valve disease management nationwide. Additionally, NHS England is undertaking a review of health inequalities for all specialised cardiac services which will include aortic stenosis, a type of HVD. This will specifically consider the presentation of males versus females with aortic stenosis where research shows that women are likely to present with symptoms at an older age. It is also working with providers to implement a single point of access pathway for severe aortic stenosis.

Heart Diseases: Health Education
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to raise awareness of (a) heart valve disease and (b) its symptoms among the (i) population and (ii) healthcare professionals.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Continuous improvements have been made in the heart valve disease (HVD) pathway for service users, but there remains unwarranted variation and inequalities in terms of care for patients with HVD for example in access to surgery for aortic stenosis, a form of HVD; and late presentation which increases the risk of surgery and limits recovery after surgery.

NHS England produced an e-learning for healthcare on heart failure and heart valve disease in early 2023. This package of education supports clinicians across primary care and community settings to better recognise the symptoms, diagnose, manage, and support patients with heart failure and heart valve disease, including palliative and end of life care. In doing so, clinicians are supported to identify and manage patients in primary care where appropriate, to reduce avoidable admissions to hospital.

In 2024 NHS England commissioned the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society to develop a new referral form to support the investigation of heart valve disease. The referral form is to guide primary healthcare teams to confidently refer patients with suspected, or known, valve disease for specialist assessment and/or echocardiography, where appropriate. The resource includes:

- a comprehensive checklist to support patient referral for further assessment;

- important signs and symptoms; and

- referral pathways for suspected heart valve disease.

Council Tax: Non-payment
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
Monday 15th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of Council Tax in England as part of wider proposed sentencing reforms.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of council tax only applies where the court is satisfied that non-payment is due to wilful refusal to pay or culpable neglect. A person cannot be imprisoned for being unable to pay their council tax.

The government is currently consulting on modernising and improving the administration of council tax, and this includes seeking views on changes to how councils collect and enforce council tax. The government will publish its response to the consultation in due course.



MP Financial Interests
15th September 2025
Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
8. Miscellaneous
Co-Chair of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly.
Source


Early Day Motions Signed
Tuesday 16th September
Gill Furniss signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 16th September 2025

Football regulator

11 signatures (Most recent: 13 Oct 2025)
Tabled by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)
That this House welcomes the ground breaking Football Governance Act 2025 which will establish an independent football regulator, with powers to hold to account rogue, dishonest and incompetent owners of football clubs and potentially remove their ownership of their clubs; further welcomes the speedy and decisive way in which the …
Monday 1st September
Gill Furniss signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Support for early years and the National Literacy Trust

15 signatures (Most recent: 17 Oct 2025)
Tabled by: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Independent - Poole)
That this House recognises the urgent need to address falling levels of early language in the UK, as highlighted by the National Literacy Trust; notes with concern that in 2024 187,542 five-year-olds started school without the communication and language skills they need to thrive; further notes the steep decline in …



Gill Furniss mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Speciality Steel UK: Insolvency
58 speeches (8,140 words)
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) Friend the Member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (Gill Furniss) said, and had a woeful record - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Friday 12th September 2025
Attendance statistics - Members' attendance 2024-25 (Standards)

Committee on Standards

Found: (94.1%) Paula Barker (Labour, Liverpool Wavertree) (added 28 Oct 2024) 16 of 17 (94.1%) Gill Furniss

Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Report - 3rd Report - Status of independent Members of Parliament

Procedure Committee

Found: Newbury) Graeme Downie (Labour; Dunfermline and Dollar) Mary Kelly Foy (Labour; City of Durham) Gill Furniss

Monday 21st July 2025
Report - 2nd Report - Proxy voting: Review of arrangements introduced in Session 2024-25

Procedure Committee

Found: Newbury) Graeme Downie (Labour; Dunfermline and Dollar) Mary Kelly Foy (Labour; City of Durham) Gill Furniss



Parliamentary Research
Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-25: progress of the bill - CBP-10317
Aug. 01 2025

Found: Members of the public bill committee The Mental Health Bill [Lords] Committee was chaired by Gill Furniss



Bill Documents
Aug. 01 2025
Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-25: progress of the bill
Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26
Briefing papers

Found: Members of the public bill committee The Mental Health Bill [Lords] Committee was chaired by Gill Furniss




Gill Furniss - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Wednesday 15th October 2025 2:30 p.m.
Procedure Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Call lists
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Claire Hanna MP
Robin Swann MP
Dr Ellie Chowns MP
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Wednesday 22nd October 2025 2:30 p.m.
Procedure Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Elections within the House of Commons
At 2:45pm: Oral evidence
Professor Meg Russell, Director at UCL Constitution Unit
Dr Marc Geddes, Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Edinburgh
Dr Stephen Holden Bates, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University of Birmingham
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Select Committee Documents
Monday 21st July 2025
Report - 2nd Report - Proxy voting: Review of arrangements introduced in Session 2024-25

Procedure Committee
Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Written Evidence - Ofcom
OUT0029 - Outside employment and interests

Outside employment and interests - Committee on Standards
Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Report - 3rd Report - Status of independent Members of Parliament

Procedure Committee
Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Written Evidence - Committee on Standards in Public Life
OUT0030 - Outside employment and interests

Outside employment and interests - Committee on Standards
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - HM Government
SJR0002 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - Merges Global Ltd.
SJR0001 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - University of Exeter
CLI0010 - Call lists

Call lists - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - Elect Her
CLI0011 - Call lists

Call lists - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - MySociety
EVO0017 - Electronic voting

Electronic Voting - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - House Administration
SJR0006 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - The Bar Council
SJR0004 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - Constitutions, Rights & Justice Research Group, University of Worcester
SJR0003 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - Mr Eliot Wilson
SJR0005 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Written Evidence - Elect Her
EVO0018 - Electronic voting

Electronic Voting - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Correspondence - Letter from Karin Smyth MP, Minister of State at the Department for Health and Social Care, relating to WPQ performance, dated 21 July 2025

Procedure Committee
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Correspondence - Joint letter from the Chair of the Liaison Committee, Dame Meg Hillier MP and Chair of the Backbench Business Committee Bob Blackman MP relating to Estimates Day debate allocations pilot programme, dated 22 July 2025

Procedure Committee
Friday 12th September 2025
Attendance statistics - Members' attendance 2024-25 (Standards)

Committee on Standards
Tuesday 14th October 2025
Attendance statistics - Members' attendance 2024-25 (Privileges)

Committee of Privileges
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Sarah Champion
EHC0016 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Neil Coyle
EHC0017 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Simon Hoare
EHC0015 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
EHC0011 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Ruth Jones
EHC0009 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Dr Marie Tidball
EHC0010 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Helen Hayes
EHC0018 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Alberto Costa
EHC0012 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Mr Toby Perkins
EHC0013 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Sarah Owen
EHC0014 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Patricia Ferguson
EHC0006 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Andy Slaughter
EHC0007 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Liam Byrne
EHC0008 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Ruth Cadbury
EHC0005 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Oral Evidence - Claire Hanna, Robin Swann, and Dr Ellie Chowns

Call lists - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Edwin Poots MLA, Speaker, Northern Ireland Assembly
SJR0009 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Rt Hon Alison Johnstone MSP, Presiding Officer, Scottish Parliament
SJR0007 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Rt Hon Elin Jones AS/MS, Llywydd (Presiding Officer), Senedd Cyrmu/Welsh Parliament
SJR0008 - Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons

Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons - Procedure Committee
Thursday 16th October 2025
Special Report - 3rd Special Report – Proxy Voting: Review of arrangements introduced in the 2024–25 Session: Government Response

Procedure Committee
Monday 20th October 2025
Report - 1st Report - Matter referred on 14 July 2025 (Omagh Bombing Inquiry)

Committee of Privileges
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Andy Slaughter
EHC0007 - Elections within the House of Commons

Elections within the House of Commons - Procedure Committee