Information between 9th July 2025 - 8th August 2025
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - against a party majority and against the House One of 47 Labour No votes vs 333 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 336 Noes - 242 |
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 331 Labour No votes vs 47 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 149 Noes - 334 |
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 356 Labour No votes vs 8 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 35 Noes - 469 |
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 364 Labour No votes vs 7 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 105 Noes - 370 |
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 377 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 103 Noes - 416 |
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9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 333 Labour No votes vs 35 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 130 Noes - 443 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Welfare Spending - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 344 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 106 Noes - 440 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 313 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 54 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context Marsha De Cordova 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 - 334 Noes - 54 |
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Marsha De Cordova speeches from: Independent Water Commission
Marsha De Cordova contributed 1 speech (88 words) Monday 21st July 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
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Marsha De Cordova speeches from: Middle East
Marsha De Cordova contributed 1 speech (138 words) Monday 21st July 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
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Marsha De Cordova speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Marsha De Cordova contributed 2 speeches (104 words) Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Energy Security & Net Zero |
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Marsha De Cordova speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Marsha De Cordova contributed 1 speech (79 words) Monday 14th July 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Universal Credit
Asked by: Marsha De Cordova (Labour - Battersea) Thursday 17th July 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the completion rate for the Universal Credit optional equality questions on the (a) ethnic sub-group, (b) whether the respondent meets the definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010 and (c) whether the respondent has (i) health conditions and (ii) illnesses which affect them in specified ways, in the latest period for which data is available. Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) Since March 2025, the weekly completion rate for the Universal Credit (UC) equality questionnaire was between 75% and 80%. This is the proportion of people who complete the questionnaire when prompted to do so. To complete the questionnaire, claimants must respond to all questions, however, they may select "prefer not to say" as a valid response. Claimants are prompted to complete the questionnaire when they make an initial claim or a reclaim. They have 40 days to complete it before it is removed from their UC To-Do List.
The coverage rate, i.e. the proportion of the UC caseload for whom we have a valid response, for the ethnicity questions, including for ethnic sub-groups, has reached over 70% and the Universal Credit statistics have been published with those breakdowns, with the latest statistics to June 2025 published on 15 July 2025.
The health and disability questions were only introduced in December 2023, and it will take time for a sufficient proportion of the total UC caseload to respond, before any meaningful analysis is possible. Consequently, the department is currently unable to provide reliable figures on responses to the health and disability questions gathered through the equality questionnaire. |
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Universal Credit: Disqualification
Asked by: Marsha De Cordova (Labour - Battersea) Thursday 17th July 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish Universal Credit sanction statistics broken down by (a) ethnic sub-group, (b) whether a respondent meets the definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010, (c) whether the respondent has (i) health conditions or (ii) illnesses which affect them in specified ways and (d) family type. Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) The Department currently publishes the Universal Credit sanction statistics by ethnicity, with the latest statistics to February 2025 published on 24 June 2025. |
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Artificial Intelligence: Media
Asked by: Marsha De Cordova (Labour - Battersea) Friday 18th July 2025 Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help tackle the impact of artificial intelligence on the (a) sustainability and (b) accuracy of news media. Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) Journalism plays an invaluable role in the fabric of our society and we are committed to supporting a free, sustainable and plural news media landscape. In this context, we recognise concerns from the press sector that recent developments in generative AI pose risks, as well as opportunities, to journalism. We are engaging with the press sector on these concerns. Both I and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology have each held roundtables earlier this year with publishers and broadcasters to discuss AI and journalism. DCMS has also provided funding to the Bridging Responsible AI Divides research programme at The University of Edinburgh, which produced the report ‘Generative AI and Journalism: Mapping the Risk Landscape’. We recognise that particular concerns have been raised with regard to the use of copyrighted news content in the training of AI models and how this interacts with UK copyright law. We want to support rightsholders in licensing their work in the digital age while allowing AI developers to benefit from access to creative material in the UK, including that from independent media. The government is analysing responses to the consultation and looking at all options. We will set out a detailed economic impact assessment on all options and a report on the use of copyright material for AI training, transparency and technical standards. This analysis will inform our position, alongside a series of expert working groups launching this week, bringing together people from both the AI and creative sectors.
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Future of the Church of England
9 speeches (3,056 words) Thursday 17th July 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) does so much work in that regard, serving as a vital - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: HL Bill 112 of 2024–25 - LLN-2025-0030
Jul. 29 2025 Found: Dr Allison Gardner (Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South), Marsha De Cordova (Labour MP for Battersea) |