Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025 Welfare Reform
"I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement, and for the steps she has taken to improve the Bill. In launching the Timms review, she has accepted that the current PIP assessment criteria and descriptors are not fit for purpose. Can she confirm that the difference between the timetable …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"My hon. Friend makes an important point about the state of the school estate.
The final area of challenge is that many universities face a risk of insolvency. At the heart of all the Department’s responsibilities are individual children and young people who need and are entitled to the best …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"I rise to address the House on the Department for Education’s main estimate for 2025-26. I thank the Liaison Committee and the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for this debate this afternoon; it is an important opportunity to scrutinise the Government’s spending plans, which must deliver for every child, …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"I thank my hon. Friend for her important work in this area. I agree that the cuts made to the adoption and special guardianship support fund have caused great alarm across the adoption, special guardianship and kinship care community. It is important that in reviewing that funding, the Government look …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the debate. The education and children’s social care system across the country has been well represented, and we have heard contributions about the challenges in SEND, further education, schools, rural areas and early years. Right hon. and hon. …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for this important debate.
On 22 June 1948, HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks from the Caribbean, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways. More than half …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"Of course, in our two boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, the contribution of the Windrush generation is extraordinary. It is demonstrated most powerfully in the statue that my hon. Friend mentions.
The lives of Windrush passengers, and of others from the Caribbean who followed them to Brixton, were captured by …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s constituents, who, like so many of the Windrush generation, demonstrated their resilience by taking initiatives to circumnavigate the racism to which they were subject. We still live with that racism and discrimination today, and we can never be complacent about that. We must …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech
"I thank my hon. Friend for all the work she is doing on this issue. As I have said, I believe this is an unaddressed issue on which there is still work to do.
In that vein, it is devastating to read the words of John Carpenter, which I have …..." Helen Hayes - View Speech