"Happy birthday to you, Mr Speaker. Let me associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the situation in Northern Ireland, and about the Scottish football team. [Laughter.]
The existence of Israeli settlements and settler violence against Palestinians is a major and deliberate impediment to peace. By working …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"My hon. Friend is making some important points about railway accessibility, which is also an issue for my constituents, particularly at the railway stations in Burntisland, Cowdenbeath and Kinghorn. That is why I added my name to new clause 23, which would have introduced a strategy to ensure full railway …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"My hon. Friend is referring to the importance of railway accessibility. I wish to put on record, as I have been advised to by the Public Bill Office and the Clerks, that my name has been mistakenly added to new clauses 22, 59, 60, 61 and 62, but has correctly …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"I welcome the new package of important sanctions announced by the Foreign Secretary. As I raised with Government Ministers last week, and as I discussed with the Foreign Secretary last night, last week I submitted a formal complaint to the Charity Commission about 32 UK charities that have over the …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"To test Instagram’s claim that its teen accounts provide age-appropriate content, I set up a teen account as a 17-year-old boy called David. Without searching for anything, it took just 11 minutes of scrolling for David to be shown antisemitic conspiracy theories. Does the Minister agree that that is a …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Barker. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and Dollar (Graeme Downie) on securing this debate.
Before I was elected to this House, I served as a humanitarian aid worker and spent time in a number of war …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"There has been some talk about football. I think we should all be celebrating the glorious victory of Raith Rovers in the Challenge cup.
Results from a survey of Burntisland residents that I conducted suggest that 87% of people experience difficulties using Burntisland station, due to the lack of step-free …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"I commend the Government’s action on Iran; they are doing the right thing where others in this Chamber would have led us down a different and dangerous path.
I agree with the Minister’s words on Palestine and Lebanon, but we are long past the point of words being anything like …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech
"I rise to speak in support of His Majesty’s Speech and to call for our Government to take bolder action on many of the challenges faced by our country, and indeed our world. We are living through global instability on a scale not seen for decades. The power shifts are …..." Melanie Ward - View Speech