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Division Vote (Commons)
13 Nov 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
Rebecca Paul (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 75 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 254 Noes - 135
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Energy

"More people are now recognising that all is not well with the current approach to energy policy or net zero. That matters because the cost of energy is deeply tied to the cost of living, the cost of doing business, and the security and resilience of our country. It therefore …..."
Rebecca Paul - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Energy

"I am going to continue, but thanks for the offer.

The economic consequences are now plain to see. Since 2021, the output of UK energy-intensive industries has fallen by around 35%. In sectors such as steel, petrochemicals and fertilisers, this trend is not theoretical, and the damage already done to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q12. I would like to ask the Prime Minister for his help. It has been over six months since the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex. Yet public institutions are still knowingly and intentionally breaching the law. HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Banstead, has five biological males …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
12 Nov 2025 - Energy - View Vote Context
Rebecca Paul (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 94 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 97 Noes - 336
Division Vote (Commons)
12 Nov 2025 - Taxes - View Vote Context
Rebecca Paul (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 94 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 101 Noes - 316
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Nov 2025
BBC Leadership

"Like many in the Chamber, I want to see the BBC rebuild public trust and return to its core mission, but it must be recognised that as a result of its pro-gender-ideology bias, it failed to adequately report on issues such as the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones …..."
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Written Question
Mental Health Services: Prisons and Young Offender Institutions
Thursday 6th November 2025

Asked by: Rebecca Paul (Conservative - Reigate)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Independent Monitoring Board's report entitled Annual report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP/YOI Downview, published on 3 September 2025, what steps he is taking to ensure acutely mentally unwell prisoners are swiftly (a) identified and (b) given care in an appropriate facility at (a) HMP/YOI Downview, (b) other prisons and (c) other young offenders institutions.

Answered by Zubir Ahmed - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England commissions prison health care services for HMP/YOI Downview and every other prison and young offenders institution in England. Every prison has onsite health care services including primary care, mental health, dentistry, and substance misuse teams.

The National Service Specification for integrated mental health sets out how patients within secure settings, who require support for their mental wellbeing, should receive the same level of healthcare as people in the community, both in terms of the range of interventions available to them, in order to meet their needs, and the quality and standards of those interventions.

This includes access to crisis intervention and crisis prevention for those at high risk of self-harm and suicide, where such behaviours relate to poor emotional wellbeing and/or minor psychiatric morbidity.

Access to mental health provision is available to every person in prison at any stage of their sentence, beginning at the point of entry. NHS England commissions first night reception screening to have a registered nurse/practitioner review patients’ medical history to address any immediate health needs and risks and to ensure medication is made available as soon as possible and that onward referrals to onsite healthcare teams, including mental health services, for both urgent face to face appointments, within 24 hours, and routine face to face appointments, within five working days, are made.

Outside of reception screening, people in prison can be referred or can self-refer to mental health services, within those timeframes.

When someone is acutely unwell, they can be transferred from prisons and other places of detention to hospital for treatment, under the Mental Health Act, within the target transfer period of 28 days. The Mental Health Bill, currently going through Parliament, introduces a statutory 28-day time limit within which agencies must seek to ensure individuals who meet the criteria for detention under the act are transferred to hospital for treatment. NHS England’s South East Health and Justice team is funding a transfer and remissions co-ordinator from January 2025, to improve, where possible, safe, effective, and efficient transfers to hospital level treatment and interventions.

NHS England is reviewing the National Integrated Prison Service Specification to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the prison population.

Division Vote (Commons)
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Rebecca Paul (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 84 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 151
Division Vote (Commons)
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Rebecca Paul (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 85 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 310 Noes - 150