Information between 8th December 2025 - 7th January 2026
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8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 309 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 326 Noes - 162 |
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8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 294 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 300 Noes - 96 |
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8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 305 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 395 Noes - 98 |
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8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 305 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 162 |
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8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 308 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 96 |
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9 Dec 2025 - Railways Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 316 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 332 |
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9 Dec 2025 - Railways Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 314 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 329 Noes - 173 |
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10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 311 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 98 Noes - 325 |
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10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 312 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 98 |
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10 Dec 2025 - Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 290 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 90 Noes - 297 |
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15 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 311 Noes - 96 |
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16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 333 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 118 Noes - 340 |
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16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 329 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 341 Noes - 195 |
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17 Dec 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context Mark Sewards voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 165 |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Business of the House
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (157 words) Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (126 words) Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Home Office |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (46 words) Tuesday 16th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Sudan: Humanitarian Situation
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (59 words) Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Jimmy Lai Conviction
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (96 words) Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Employment Rights Bill
Mark Sewards contributed 3 speeches (359 words) Consideration of Lords message Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business and Trade |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (145 words) Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: Business of the House
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (107 words) Thursday 11th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: National Plan to End Homelessness
Mark Sewards contributed 1 speech (135 words) Thursday 11th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Mark Sewards speeches from: AI Safety
Mark Sewards contributed 2 speeches (686 words) Wednesday 10th December 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Science, Innovation & Technology |
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Social Security Benefits: Veterans
Asked by: Mark Sewards (Labour - Leeds South West and Morley) Wednesday 10th December 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of moving disabled military veterans from Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit on their eligibility for local council tax support schemes. Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) Support for working age households, including the treatment of benefits, is designed by councils in consultation with their residents, taking into account the needs and circumstances of their local communities. Each year, councils must consider whether to revise or replace their scheme. This review may include the provision for those migrating between benefits. For pension age households, councils administer a centrally prescribed LCTS scheme, which is reviewed annually. |
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Bita Shafiei
Asked by: Mark Sewards (Labour - Leeds South West and Morley) Thursday 11th December 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has raised the detention of Bita Shafiei on 13 November 2025 with her Iranian counterparts. Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) We are aware of Bita Shafiei's case and continue to raise the rights of women and girls and human rights defenders with the Iranian Government in multilateral fora. The UK co-sponsored an Iran Human Rights Resolution, adopted by the UN Third Committee on 19 November, which condemned the targeted repression of women and girls and called on Iran to release women human rights defenders imprisoned for exercising their rights. We delivered a statement at the Committee, which highlighted Iran's bolstering of surveillance capabilities to monitor and target women and girls, and we will continue to work with international partners to hold Iran to account. |
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Mathematics: Higher Education
Asked by: Mark Sewards (Labour - Leeds South West and Morley) Thursday 18th December 2025 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the role of the mathematical sciences within future Strategic Priorities Grant funding. Answered by Kanishka Narayan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) The mathematical sciences sector is key to delivering the Government’s missions and plays an important role from advising government and business, to sharing expertise that underpins the innovation and scientific discovery that helps our country and economy thrive. Ministers and officials in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) engage regularly with counterparts in the Department for Education (DfE) on a wide range of issues related to mathematical sciences and higher education funding. While we maintain this ongoing dialogue with the DfE, there have been no specific discussions on the role of mathematical sciences in the Office for Students’ Strategic Priorities Grant funding. |
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Mathematics: Higher Education
Asked by: Mark Sewards (Labour - Leeds South West and Morley) Tuesday 23rd December 2025 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what internal discussions her Department has had on the allocation of funding for the mathematical sciences within the 2026-27 Strategic Priorities Grant. Answered by Kanishka Narayan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) The allocation of funding for mathematical sciences within the 2026-27 Strategic Priorities Grant is the responsibility of the Department for Education (DfE). As such, there has been no specific internal discussion within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) on this issue. For this Academic Year 2025-26, more than two thirds of the £1.3 billion Strategic Priorities Grant budget allocated to providers will support the provision of high-cost subjects, for example medicine, dentistry; science, engineering and technology. DfE is reviewing the high-cost subject funding to ensure that this best aligns with the Government’s Growth Mission and is targeted effectively towards provision that supports the industrial strategy and future skills needs. DfE will issue guidance to the Office for Student (OfS) in due course setting out funding priorities for 2026/27. |
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11 Dec 2025, 1:20 p.m. - House of Commons " Mark Sewards. >> Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the Minister for the strategy today and agree with his stated aims. I " Mark Sewards MP (Leeds South West and Morley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Dec 2025, 7:01 p.m. - House of Commons " Mark Sewards. >> Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Given that the Chinese Communist Party has clearly broken its " Mark Sewards MP (Leeds South West and Morley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Dec 2025, 10:07 p.m. - House of Commons ">> On that point. >> Of course. >> Mark Sewards. >> I'm very grateful to her for " Amanda Hack MP (North West Leicestershire, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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16 Dec 2025, 12:28 p.m. - House of Commons ">> Mark Sewards. >> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Following a string of shocking " Mark Sewards MP (Leeds South West and Morley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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18 Dec 2025, 12:29 p.m. - House of Commons " Mark Sewards. >> Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Merry Christmas to you. To all the House staff, to everybody here and everybody who's not as well. When " Mark Sewards MP (Leeds South West and Morley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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18 Dec 2025, 1:40 p.m. - House of Commons " The final question, Mark Sewards. >> The final question, Mark Sewards. >> Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the strategy set out by the Minister " Mark Sewards MP (Leeds South West and Morley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Tuesday 20th January 2026 11:30 a.m. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Abtisam Mohamed: What recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the situation in Yemen. Dan Carden: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Joe Robertson: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Anna Dixon: What steps her Department is taking to help improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Graham Leadbitter: What diplomatic steps she is taking to help Greenland strengthen its security. Gurinder Singh Josan: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Richard Quigley: What steps she is taking with international partners to help tackle forced labour practices. Lorraine Beavers: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Mike Martin: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Uma Kumaran: What steps her Department is taking with international partners to help improve the global response to cyber attacks and ransomware. Blake Stephenson: What assessment she has made of whether the Mauritian Government is able to effectively protect Chagos' marine environment. Stephen Gethins: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Callum Anderson: What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to support security in the Arctic region. Jeff Smith: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Douglas McAllister: What steps her Department is taking to support UK citizens arbitrarily detained abroad. Mike Reader: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Ian Lavery: What diplomatic steps she is taking to help ensure that international humanitarian law is upheld in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Seamus Logan: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Peter Lamb: If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. Olly Glover: What discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on planned levels of spending on Official Development Assistance. Kirith Entwistle: What steps her Department is taking to support Ukraine. Mark Sewards: What recent discussions she has had with representatives of the Falkland Islands on the potential impact of trade tariffs on its economy. Afzal Khan: What recent assessment she has made of the need for humanitarian aid in Syria. Peter Prinsley: What steps her Department is taking to help ensure the continued delivery of aid in Gaza and the West Bank. Shockat Adam: What discussions she has had with the government of Israel on its approval of the E1 settlement plan in occupied East Jerusalem. Jeremy Corbyn: What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the steps Israel is taking to establish the E1 settlement in the occupied West Bank. Mark Pritchard: What recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the political situation in Georgia. James Wild: What diplomatic steps she is taking to hold Iran to account for the repression of protesters. Marsha De Cordova: What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the UK's level of participation in global disability rights and inclusion activities. David Williams: What diplomatic steps her Department is taking with international partners to help tackle organised immigration crime. Andy McDonald: What steps her Department is taking to help improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Danny Chambers: What diplomatic steps she is taking to support the sovereignty of NATO allies. Sonia Kumar: What diplomatic steps she is taking to help protect children in Iran from actions taken by the Iranian authorities. John Whitby: What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to help prevent the detention of children from Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli military. Yasmin Qureshi: What steps her Department is taking to help ensure the continued delivery of aid in Gaza and the West Bank. View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People
30 speeches (5,185 words) Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Leeds South West and Morley (Mark Sewards) for his intervention. - Link to Speech |
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AI Safety
57 speeches (13,682 words) Wednesday 10th December 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) Friend the Member for Leeds South West and Morley (Mark Sewards). - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 16th December 2025
Oral Evidence - National Institute of Teaching, Teach First, Institute of Education, and Now Teach Education Committee Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Helen Hayes (Chair); Darren Paffey; Manuela Perteghella; Mark Sewards |
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Tuesday 16th December 2025
Oral Evidence - National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), National Education Union (NEU), and The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Education Committee Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Helen Hayes (Chair); Darren Paffey; Manuela Perteghella; Mark Sewards |
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Thursday 11th December 2025
Special Report - 7th Special Report - Solving the SEND Crisis: Government Response Education Committee Found: Rebecca Paul (Conservative; Reigate) Manuela Perteghella (Liberal Democrat; Stratford-on-Avon) Mark Sewards |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Coram PACEY, Early Years Alliance, National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), and Early Education Early Years: Improving support for children and parents - Education Committee Found: Q52 Mark Sewards: I have a specific question for Beatrice. |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Special Report - 6th Special Report - Further Education and Skills: Government Response Education Committee Found: Paffey (Labour; Southampton Itchen) Manuela Perteghella (Liberal Democrat; Stratford-on-Avon) Mark Sewards |
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Tuesday 16th December 2025 9:30 a.m. Education Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention At 10:00am: Oral evidence Jack Worth - Lead Economist at National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) Daniel Kebede - General Secretary at National Education Union (NEU) Kathryn Morgan - Leadership and Workforce Specialist at The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) At 11:00am: Oral evidence Melanie Renowden - CEO at National Institute of Teaching James Toop - CEO at Teach First Dr Jasper Green - Head of Initial Teacher Education at Institute of Education Graihagh Crawshaw-Sadler - CEO at Now Teach View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 6th January 2026 2 p.m. Education Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 13th January 2026 9:30 a.m. Education Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The work of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) At 10:00am: Oral evidence Sir Ian Bauckham CBE - Chief Regulator at Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) Michael Hanton - Deputy Chief Regulator at Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 20th January 2026 9 a.m. Education Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 27th January 2026 2 p.m. Education Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |