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Information between 14th December 2025 - 24th December 2025

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Division Votes
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 66 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 341 Noes - 195
17 Dec 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Richard Foord voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 60 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 165


Speeches
Richard Foord speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (70 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Richard Foord speeches from: Animal Welfare Strategy
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (53 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Richard Foord speeches from: Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (65 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Richard Foord speeches from: Ukraine
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (103 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Richard Foord speeches from: Community Audiology
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (713 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department of Health and Social Care
Richard Foord speeches from: Housing Development: Cumulative Impacts
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (610 words)
Wednesday 17th December 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Richard Foord speeches from: Finance (No. 2) Bill
Richard Foord contributed 3 speeches (134 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 16th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Richard Foord speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (100 words)
Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Richard Foord speeches from: Sudan: Humanitarian Situation
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (138 words)
Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Richard Foord speeches from: Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People
Richard Foord contributed 1 speech (103 words)
Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care


Written Answers
Trees: Conservation
Asked by: Richard Foord (Liberal Democrat - Honiton and Sidmouth)
Tuesday 23rd December 2025

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the ancient woodland and ancient and veteran trees sections of her Department's Environmental Improvement Plan, published on 1 December 2025, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on maintaining the level of planning protections for protected landscapes in the forthcoming review of the National Planning Policy Framework.

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

Defra has engaged with MHCLG on the forthcoming review of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). This government is committed to the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 which includes an action to maintain current protections in the NPPF for ancient woodland and ancient and veteran trees and improve the implementation of the policy. The government is currently consulting on changes to the NPPF and the proposed wording, which maintains current protections for ancient woodland and ancient and veteran trees, is available to view here National Planning Policy Framework: proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system - GOV.



Early Day Motions Signed
Wednesday 17th December
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Thursday 18th December 2025

Schools Residential Outdoor Education (Scotland) Bill (No. 2)

18 signatures (Most recent: 18 Dec 2025)
Tabled by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
That this House warmly welcomes the passage of the Schools Residential Outdoor Education (Scotland) Bill by the Scottish Parliament, which places a legal duty on local authorities to ensure that school pupils can access residential outdoor education; congratulates Liz Smith MSP for introducing this transformational legislation and notes that it …
Wednesday 17th December
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Thursday 18th December 2025

Convention on Cluster Munitions and preventing UK involvement in their production

30 signatures (Most recent: 5 Jan 2026)
Tabled by: James MacCleary (Liberal Democrat - Lewes)
That this House supports the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), prohibiting all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions; recognises the indiscriminate nature of cluster munitions; expresses grave alarm at the way in which these munitions contribute to large civilian death tolls; further recognises the enduring socio-economic challenges which …
Monday 15th December
Richard Foord signed this EDM on Wednesday 17th December 2025

Changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief in the Autumn Budget 2025

25 signatures (Most recent: 7 Jan 2026)
Tabled by: Sarah Dyke (Liberal Democrat - Glastonbury and Somerton)
That this House expresses concern with the Government’s announcement in the Autumn Budget, confirming their decision to cut Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR) by 50% on all assets valued at over £1 million, effective from 6 April 2026; notes the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s introduction to …



Richard Foord mentioned

Live Transcript

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15 Dec 2025, 3:14 p.m. - House of Commons
" Richard Foord Mr. speaker, there is a mismatch. "
Richard Foord MP (Honiton and Sidmouth, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
15 Dec 2025, 6:01 p.m. - House of Commons
"of the horrific situation in Sudan. Richard Foord. "
Chris Elmore MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Bridgend, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
18 Dec 2025, 9:51 a.m. - House of Commons
" Richard Foord. Devon is classified by the Environment Agency as poor. It has got twice the phosphate levels of other rivers in Devon. And what we "
Richard Foord MP (Honiton and Sidmouth, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
18 Dec 2025, 2:14 p.m. - House of Commons
" Richard Foord. >> Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I welcome what the Minister said in terms of introducing a "
Richard Foord MP (Honiton and Sidmouth, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
18 Dec 2025, 1:37 p.m. - House of Commons
"to access Richard Foord. "
Jess Phillips MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Birmingham Yardley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript


Parliamentary Debates
Community Audiology
28 speeches (11,490 words)
Thursday 18th December 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberafan Maesteg) Member for Honiton and Sidmouth (Richard Foord) was right to talk about the connection between hearing - Link to Speech

Housing Development: Cumulative Impacts
45 speeches (13,514 words)
Wednesday 17th December 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) Friend the Member for Honiton and Sidmouth (Richard Foord) made excellent points about the need for cumulative - Link to Speech

Points of Order
7 speeches (1,019 words)
Wednesday 17th December 2025 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)James MacCleary, supported by Calum Miller, Monica Harding, Richard Foord - Link to Speech

Sudan: Humanitarian Situation
64 speeches (6,201 words)
Monday 15th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Friend the Member for Honiton and Sidmouth (Richard Foord): what meetings has the Minister had with the - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 16th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

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

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




Richard Foord - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 6th January 2026 10 a.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
At 10:30am: Oral evidence
Stephen Doughty MP - Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Jonny Hall CMG OBE - Director, Hybrid Directorate at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Tuesday 13th January 2026 10 a.m.
Foreign Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
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Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 16th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Foreign Affairs Committee
Wednesday 17th December 2025
Written Evidence - American Sunlight Project
DIS0054 - Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy

Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy - Foreign Affairs Committee
Wednesday 17th December 2025
Correspondence - Letter to the Foreign Secretary, relating to the British Council, dated 9 December 2025

Foreign Affairs Committee
Wednesday 17th December 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence with the Permanent Under-Secretary, FCDO, relating to the Annual Report and Accounts evidence session, dated 12 and 10 December 2025

Foreign Affairs Committee
Tuesday 16th December 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister of State for Europe, North America, and UK Overseas Territories, relating to sanctions, dated 11 December 2025

Foreign Affairs Committee
Wednesday 31st December 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence with the Foreign Secretary regarding Information Failures dated 29 and 31 December

Foreign Affairs Committee