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Paulette Hamilton

Labour - Birmingham Erdington

7,019 (20.6%) majority - 2024 General Election

First elected: 3rd March 2022


Health and Social Care Committee
4th Jul 2022 - 30th May 2024
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill
6th Mar 2024 - 13th Mar 2024
Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill
14th Dec 2022 - 11th Jan 2023


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Paulette Hamilton has voted in 49 divisions, and 1 time against the majority of their Party.

29 Nov 2024 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Paulette Hamilton voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour No votes vs 234 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 275
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.

Sparring Partners
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)
(2 debate interactions)
Angela Rayner (Labour)
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
(2 debate interactions)
Keir Starmer (Labour)
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
(2 debate interactions)
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Birmingham Erdington Petitions

e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.

If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.

If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).

Petitions with highest Birmingham Erdington signature proportion
Open
4,101
of 2,972,550 signatures (0.14%)
Open
121
of 129,993 signatures (0.09%)
Petitions with most Birmingham Erdington signatures
Paulette Hamilton has not participated in any petition debates

Latest EDMs signed by Paulette Hamilton

18th November 2024
Paulette Hamilton signed this EDM on Thursday 21st November 2024

50th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings

Tabled by: Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice - North Antrim)
That this House notes with real sadness the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Pub Bombings which took place on 21 November 1974 in which 21 people were killed and 220 injured, the most deadly terrorist attack on British soil and largest unsolved mass murder; further notes that it is widely …
10 signatures
(Most recent: 28 Nov 2024)
Signatures by party:
Democratic Unionist Party: 4
Labour: 3
Traditional Unionist Voice: 1
Conservative: 1
Independent: 1
11th November 2024
Paulette Hamilton signed this EDM on Thursday 14th November 2024

Work of St John Ambulance

Tabled by: Kirith Entwistle (Labour - Bolton North East)
That this House recognises the lifesaving work of St John Ambulance volunteers across the country, training 250,000 members of the public in first aid every year, providing event first aid cover at 11,000 events and delivering 4,000 hours of emergency support to the NHS per month as the nation’s ambulance …
48 signatures
(Most recent: 3 Dec 2024)
Signatures by party:
Labour: 22
Liberal Democrat: 11
Plaid Cymru: 4
Green Party: 3
Conservative: 3
Independent: 3
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Social Democratic & Labour Party: 1
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Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Paulette Hamilton, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.


Paulette Hamilton has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Paulette Hamilton has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

Paulette Hamilton has not introduced any legislation before Parliament


Latest 8 Written Questions

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Written Questions can be tabled by MPs and Lords to request specific information information on the work, policy and activities of a Government Department
20th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase trade and business support to Moroccan-British entrepreneurs in local communities; and whether he has plans to help promote UK-Morocco small business exchange programs.

Total trade in goods and services (exports plus imports) between the UK and Morocco was £4 billion in the 12 months to June 2024, an increase of 11% or £378 million in current prices, from the previous 12 months.

UK businesses can access DBT’s business support via Great.gov.uk, the Business Support Service, their local Growth Hub, and Help to Grow.

DBT’s trade promotion plan includes trade missions that will bring Moroccan and UK entrepreneurs together. This includes recent trade missions building up to the World Cup in 2030, rail sector and airport sector missions, with small businesses an important part of these delegations.

Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to (a) include spirometry and FeNO testing in the GP contract and (b) to provide dedicated funding through a Directed Enhanced Service.

Currently there are no plans to include spirometry and FeNO testing in the GP contract. In many areas, spirometry and FeNO testing services are delivered through Local Enhanced Services (LESs), which are funded separately to global sum payments.

Integrated care boards, as commissioners of primary care, are responsible for commissioning LESs which practices can opt into, which vary in scope and funding to fit the needs of local areas. In areas where spirometry and FeNO testing are not commissioned through a LES, it is the commissioner’s responsibility to ensure these services are available to patients.

Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure spirometry testing is (a) funded and (b) available in areas covered by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board.

Spirometry testing is provided at the Washwood Heath Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), along with other respiratory diagnostic tests such as fractional exhaled nitric oxide and lung function tests. The same tests will also be available at the North Solihull and South Birmingham CDCs when they go live next year. Mobilisation meetings are underway with the provider to establish that these services are ready to go live.

All tests and funding seen in the CDC have a tariff attached to them, which incentivises systems to develop diagnostic pathways, including for respiratory health, that take place in the community. These tests are local, accessible, and offer timely appointments. There are now three CDCs approved in Birmingham and Solihull, which shows a system shift to a community-based delivery model for all diagnostics, and spirometry testing is key to diagnosis a number of conditions affecting a large number of the local population.

Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Birmingham Erdington constituency and (b) other areas covered by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to address the barriers to respiratory diagnostics identified in the report entitled Right Test Right Time, published by Asthma and Lung UK in August 2023.

In addition to the development of community diagnostic provision, on Monday 4 November the Birmingham Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) launched a system-wide campaign to encourage people to ‘breathe easy’ by getting their vaccines. Focusing primarily on flu, COVID-19, and the respiratory syncytial virus, the Breathe Easy campaign was designed to engage with people who are over 65 years old and living in the postcodes where it is known that vaccine uptake is low, as well as those who are aged six months to 64 years old and who have an increased risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19 because of a health condition or treatment. The ICB is also urging pregnant women who are between 28 and 32 weeks of their pregnancy to ensure they are doing all they can to protect themselves and their unborn baby.

Radio, bus stop, bus interior, community radio, billboard, online, and supermarket adverts are all currently live, and will run until Christmas 2024. This campaign forms part of the integrated care system’s winter communications plan, which has been developed to bring partners together across the system to help create a movement asking people to take personal responsibility, drive action, increase trust in community health services, and educate, to prevent ill-health and ultimately protect the health of yourself, others, and the local National Health Service.

Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle rates of respiratory-related hospital admissions in Birmingham.

System partners are working collaboratively to improve pathways between health care professionals, and to remove barriers in referrals to community-based services and hospital acute setting clinics. This will support admission avoidance, and ensure that patients are receiving the right care in the right place, more quickly.

An example of this is the work between the West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS) and urgent community response, who are supporting the WMAS with direct referrals into their service, and providing a call before you convey the telephone line for ambulance clinicians on the scene with patients. Increasing the workforce skill mix in the urgent community response to support with decision making will avoid admissions. Support to care homes to ensure they can safely monitor and escalate, where patients become unwell, to appropriate health care professionals has been supported by urgent community response teams and virtual ward teams. We are also improving respiratory virtual ward utilisation in collaboration with both the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of secondary care to support primary care with essential respiratory diagnostics.

Following a significant drop in the volume of spirometry during the pandemic, NHS England has already worked with a range of partners, including Asthma and Lung UK, the British Thoracic Society, the Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology, and clinical leads to develop a package for systems containing the information and support required to help increase the number of people receiving early and accurate diagnosis for respiratory disease.

NHS England’s priorities and operational planning guidance for 2024/25 also highlights the importance of timely access to diagnostics, including spirometry, asking systems to utilise new diagnostic capacity in the community to commission these tests. Additional funding has been made available to systems in 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24 for the training and accreditation of staff in the provision and interpretation of quality assured spirometry, a key component of an early and accurate diagnosis. In 2023/24 and 2024/25, the national team is financially supporting systems to take innovative approaches to expanding access to their diagnostic services, focusing particularly on addressing health inequalities.

Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
20th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help promote (a) cultural exchange and (b) community engagement initiatives between the UK and Moroccan diaspora communities.

The FCDO convenes events open to both British nationals residing in Morocco and Moroccan nationals. These include regular business networking events in Casablanca, events celebrating current, former, and future Chevening Scholars, and annual initiatives such as 'Ambassador for a Day' focusing on education and youth empowerment.

The British Council promotes cultural activity and exchange between the UK and Morocco on behalf of the UK government. Its activities span a variety of creative and cultural sectors, including filmmaking, literature, and music production, and its International Collaboration Grant currently supports artists in both the UK and Morocco.

Hamish Falconer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)