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Information between 31st October 2025 - 10th November 2025

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Division Votes
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 62 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 311 Noes - 152
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 62 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 151
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 63 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 308 Noes - 153
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 63 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 310 Noes - 155
5 Nov 2025 - Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 61 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 268 Noes - 80
5 Nov 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 61 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 310 Noes - 150
4 Nov 2025 - Welfare Spending - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 55 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 92 Noes - 403


Speeches
Richard Foord speeches from: Financial Transparency: Overseas Territories
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (45 words)
Wednesday 5th November 2025 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Richard Foord speeches from: Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of Access
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (5 words)
Wednesday 5th November 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Richard Foord speeches from: Sudan: Government Support
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (66 words)
Tuesday 4th November 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Richard Foord speeches from: Official Development Assistance Reductions
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (66 words)
Tuesday 4th November 2025 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Richard Foord speeches from: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (65 words)
Tuesday 4th November 2025 - Westminster Hall
Richard Foord speeches from: Public Office (Accountability) Bill
Richard Foord contributed 2 speeches (114 words)
2nd reading
Monday 3rd November 2025 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office


Written Answers
Energy Performance Certificates: Holiday Accommodation
Asked by: Richard Foord (Liberal Democrat - Honiton and Sidmouth)
Friday 31st October 2025

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support self-catering businesses in making changes to properties to comply with Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards.

Answered by Martin McCluskey - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Government recently consulted on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector. The consultation sought views on whether short-term lets should be included to help ensure a consistent standard across all private rented properties.

We engaged widely with stakeholders during the consultation process, including the self-catering holiday lets sector and a government response will be published in due course. Following the government response and relevant legislation changes, we will issue guidance to help landlords to comply with any new requirements, which would be published on gov.uk. Support is currently available at the government webpage ‘Find Ways to Save Energy in your Home’.

Countryside: Environment Protection
Asked by: Richard Foord (Liberal Democrat - Honiton and Sidmouth)
Friday 31st October 2025

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ensure that section 245 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 is not amended to reduce the level of protection for National (a) Parks and (b) Landscapes.

Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Protected Landscapes Duty, at section 245 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, will play a key role in achieving government’s commitment to enable Protected Landscapes organisations, including National Parks and National Landscapes, to make land greener, wilder and more accessible to all.



Early Day Motions Signed
Wednesday 12th November
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Monday 17th November 2025

Cumulative disruption proposals and the right to protest

74 signatures (Most recent: 21 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House expresses deep alarm at recent proposals to require senior police officers to take into account any so-called cumulative disruption caused by past or planned future protests when considering whether to impose conditions on protests; notes these powers represent a significant expansion of state authority to ration the …
Monday 17th November
Richard Foord signed this EDM as a sponsor on Monday 17th November 2025

President Trump’s 20-point peace plan

26 signatures (Most recent: 20 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Calum Miller (Liberal Democrat - Bicester and Woodstock)
That this House welcomes the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas; expresses its relief at the release of the living hostages, and a cessation of the Israeli Government’s military operations; further expresses its anger at Hamas’ failure to rapidly repatriate the remaining hostages’ bodies; calls on Hamas to do so immediately; …
Monday 3rd November
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Wednesday 12th November 2025

Local government and social care

46 signatures (Most recent: 18 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Zöe Franklin (Liberal Democrat - Guildford)
That this House recognises that adult social care is the largest area of council spending after SEND provision; notes that in 2024-25 the gross current expenditure for local authorities in England on adult social care totalled £29.4 billion which was a 9% increase on the previous year in cash terms; …
Tuesday 11th November
Richard Foord signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 11th November 2025

Release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah and the plight of British nationals arbitrarily detained abroad

46 signatures (Most recent: 20 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Calum Miller (Liberal Democrat - Bicester and Woodstock)
That this House is relieved and delighted by the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, following six years of his unjust and arbitrary detention in Egypt; warmly welcomes Alaa being reunited with his family; emphatically commends the courage of Alaa's mother, Laila Soueif for her activism, including hunger striking, to help …
Tuesday 4th November
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Wednesday 5th November 2025

Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (Scotland) Bill

25 signatures (Most recent: 19 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
That this House welcomes the passage of the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament; notes the strong evidence that outdoor learning and youth work enhance young people’s engagement with education, foster teamwork, resilience and confidence, and encourage pro-environmental attitudes from an early age; regrets that no …
Wednesday 29th October
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Tuesday 4th November 2025

Government proposals for mandatory digital ID

55 signatures (Most recent: 19 Nov 2025)
Tabled by: Victoria Collins (Liberal Democrat - Harpenden and Berkhamsted)
That this House expresses deep concern at Government proposals for a mandatory digital ID system; believes such a scheme would cross a red line for civil liberties, threatening privacy while doing little to meet the Government’s stated aims on immigration; further believes that digital tools should empower individuals with control …



Richard Foord mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
176 speeches (41,991 words)
2nd reading
Monday 3rd November 2025 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Member for Honiton and Sidmouth (Richard Foord) and the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - COP26, and Wellcome

Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Alex Ballinger; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord

Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - COP26, and Wellcome

Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Alex Ballinger; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord

Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of East Anglia, and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Alex Ballinger; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord

Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of East Anglia, and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Alex Ballinger; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord

Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Cabinet Office

Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Aphra Brandreth; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord

Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Cabinet Office

Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: present: Emily Thornberry (Chair); Fleur Anderson; Aphra Brandreth; Phil Brickell; Dan Carden; Richard Foord




Richard Foord - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 11th November 2025 1 p.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Private Meeting
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Tuesday 18th November 2025 10 a.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
At 10:30am: Oral evidence
Nina Jankowicz - CEO at American Sunlight Project
Roberta Braga - Founder and Executive Director at Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas
Jon Bateman - Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Technology and International Affairs Programme at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
At 11:15am: Oral evidence
Alexandre Brasil - Deputy Head of Mission at Brazilian Embassy in London
At 11:30am: Oral evidence
Nishant Lalwani - CEO at International Fund for Public Interest Media
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Monday 24th November 2025 1 p.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Private Meeting
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Tuesday 25th November 2025 3 p.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Joint meeting of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation’
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Pavel Fischer - Foreign Committee Chairman at Czech Senate
Agnieszka Pomaska - Chair of the EU Affairs Committee at Polish Parliament
Heikki Autto - Chair of the Defence Committee at Finnish Parliament
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze - Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration of Ukraine to the EU at Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
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Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - COP26, and Wellcome

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of East Anglia, and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Foreign Affairs Committee
Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Cabinet Office

Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of East Anglia, and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - COP26, and Wellcome

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister of State for International Development and Africa relating to the Hillmore Treaty, dated 07 November 2025

Foreign Affairs Committee
Monday 3rd November 2025
Correspondence - Letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office relating to Direct Ministerial Appointments, dated 30.10.25

Foreign Affairs Committee
Monday 3rd November 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Cabinet Office

Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - University of East Anglia, and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Oral Evidence - COP26, and Wellcome

Foreign Affairs Committee
Wednesday 12th November 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence between the Chairs of the Foreign Affairs, International Development, and Culture, Media and Sport Committees and the Chair of the BBC relating to the BBC World Service, dated 22 October and 5 November

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 18th November 2025
Oral Evidence - American Sunlight Project, Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy - Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 18th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Brazilian Embassy in London

Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy - Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 18th November 2025
Oral Evidence - International Fund for Public Interest Media

Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy - Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 18th November 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Permanent Under-Secretary following up on the oral evidence session on 03 November 2025, dated 11 November 2025

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 18th November 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary following up on the oral evidence session on 03 November 2025, dated 11 November 2025.docx

Foreign Affairs Committee