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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 28 Oct 2025
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)

"May I tell the Committee a story? There is good merit in making sure that councillors are trained, but they can be trained and still not listen. A Reform councillor in Northamptonshire chose to join a training session, forgot to turn off his camera and got into the bath naked. …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 28 Oct 2025
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)

"As the Committee will remember, I had just covered Ireland. I will now take Committee members across the world to Australia, where a ban on upward-only rent reviews was relatively successfully deployed, as the Minister rightly said. As with Ireland, it is a very different model to what the Government …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 28 Oct 2025
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Eleventh sitting)

"It is a pleasure to speak about this issue. I thank the Minister, who has been gracious in giving me a lot of time to discuss upward-only rent reviews. I hope to use a couple of minutes to clarify a couple of points in the Minister’s statement that I do …..."
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Written Question
Immigration
Tuesday 28th October 2025

Asked by: Mike Reader (Labour - Northampton South)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many households which include children born in the UK include (a) one and (b) two adults with indefinite leave to remain.

Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information requested is not centrally held.

Division Vote (Commons)
23 Oct 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Ninth sitting) - View Vote Context
Mike Reader (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 9 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 9 Noes - 2
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Oct 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting) - View Vote Context
Mike Reader (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 9 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 9 Noes - 3
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Oct 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting) - View Vote Context
Mike Reader (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 9 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 4 Noes - 9
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Oct 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting) - View Vote Context
Mike Reader (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 9 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 2 Noes - 9
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Oct 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Ninth sitting) - View Vote Context
Mike Reader (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 9 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 9 Noes - 4
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Building Safety Regulator

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes North (Chris Curtis) for doing tireless work to co-ordinate it on behalf of us both. I thank his …..."
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