Information between 12th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
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Tuesday 22nd July 2025 4:30 p.m. Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall Subject: Barriers to trade in the UK internal market View calendar - Add to calendar |
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15 Jul 2025 - Taxes - View Vote Context Sammy Wilson voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 5 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party No votes Tally: Ayes - 165 Noes - 342 |
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context Sammy Wilson voted No - against a party majority and against the House One of 1 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 4 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 54 |
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context Sammy Wilson voted No - against a party majority and against the House One of 1 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 4 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 334 Noes - 54 |
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Sammy Wilson speeches from: UK Internal Market
Sammy Wilson contributed 3 speeches (2,180 words) Tuesday 22nd July 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Business and Trade |
Sammy Wilson speeches from: Middle East
Sammy Wilson contributed 1 speech (136 words) Monday 21st July 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
Sammy Wilson speeches from: State of Climate and Nature
Sammy Wilson contributed 1 speech (156 words) Monday 14th July 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Energy Security & Net Zero |
Sammy Wilson speeches from: Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution
Sammy Wilson contributed 2 speeches (51 words) Monday 14th July 2025 - Westminster Hall Northern Ireland Office |
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China: Human Rights
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Wednesday 16th July 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has submitted any recent human rights reports to the UN on China's regulation of (a) religious education and (b) clergy training. Answered by Catherine West - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) Chinese regulations on religious activity severely restrict religious and cultural expression in China. This Government stands firm on human rights, including the right to freedom of religion or belief. We continue to uphold the right to freedom of religion or belief through our position at the UN, G7 and other multilateral fora. We have raised these concerns recently with the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. We also joined an Australia-led joint statement at the UN General Assembly in October 2024 on freedoms in the Xinjiang and Tibetan regions, calling out the erosion of educational and religious rights and freedoms in China. |
Children: Gambling
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Thursday 17th July 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support schools to (a) identify and (b) manage risks related to children and young people accessing gambling content through (i) websites, (ii) apps and (iii) social media. Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only. The department is committed to helping schools in England protect pupils from online harms, including gambling content accessed via websites, apps, and social media. The ‘keeping children safe in education’ guidance makes clear that schools and colleges should ensure appropriate filtering and monitoring systems are in place and their effectiveness is regularly reviewed. This limits children's exposure to harmful content, including gambling, while on school-managed computers. To help schools meet their safeguarding obligations, the department has published filtering and monitoring standards. These standards set out how schools can effectively assign roles and responsibilities, review filtering and monitoring annually, block harmful illegal and inappropriate content, and implement monitoring strategies. Online safety is also embedded in the curriculum through relationships, sex and health education, where pupils are taught about the risks of harmful online behaviours, including gambling. The department continues to share best practice with counterparts across the UK. |
Russia: Sanctions
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Thursday 17th July 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Armenia on tackling the transit of goods from (a) western countries to Russia and (b) Russia to western countries through Armenia in order to circumvent sanctions. Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) I raised the issue of Russian sanctions evasion with the Armenian Foreign Minister on 11 April, in the margins of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, as I have with other international partners. The UK Government has issued tailored guidance to UK exporters working with businesses in several countries, including Armenia, to raise awareness of the risks associated with sanctions circumvention and to support compliance with UK sanctions law. The UK Government has also recently published guidance for non-UK businesses operating in countries where there is a heightened risk of circumvention of UK sanctions. This guidance has been translated into local languages including Armenian. As I have reiterated in my conversations with international partners, including Armenia, maintaining vigilance against Russian sanctions evasion is critical. Any circumvention undermines the effectiveness of international pressure on Russia and risks prolonging the war in Ukraine. I am pleased to see an ongoing decrease in Common High Priority (CHP) items exported from Armenia to Russia over the course of the past year. |
Sudan: Religious Freedom
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Monday 21st July 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic conditions his Department has attached to engaging with the transitional authorities in Sudan on freedom of religion or belief. Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) We will continue to recognise the persecution of individuals on the basis of their religion or belief. On 8 July, the Minister for Africa co-hosted the launch of the UK Approach to Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) with David Smith MP, UK Special Envoy for FoRB, with the overarching goal to reduce the number of countries in which the right to FoRB is significantly curtailed. The Minister for Africa expressed concern about the situation for religious and ethnic minorities impacted by Sudan's war. David Smith MP also made a statement at the UN Human Rights Council on 4 March, highlighting our unease about the coercion of non-Muslims in Sudan to change their beliefs through denial of work, food aid, and education. The UK's Special Representative for Sudan has visited Port Sudan three times since December 2024 to press the Sudanese Armed Forces to comply with the Jeddah Declaration of Commitments to Protect Civilians from continued atrocities. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office officials have raised similar issues in communication with representatives from the Rapid Support Forces on different occasions since the start of the conflict. We have used these exchanges to request that their leadership make every effort to protect civilians and cease atrocities. |
Gaza: Aid Workers
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim) Thursday 24th July 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will give posthumous awards to John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby who previously served in the armed forces and were killed whilst delivering aid in Gaza in April 2024. Answered by Catherine West - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is replying because, at the time of their deaths, John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby were not serving members of the UK Armed Forces and were working overseas. Government's priority is securing justice for the appalling strike that killed John Chapman, James Henderson, and James Kirby. We continue to press Israel to swiftly conclude the Military Advocate General's investigation into events on the 1 April 2024, including determining whether criminal proceedings should be initiated. The Foreign Secretary has repeatedly pressed Foreign Affairs Minister Sa'ar and Minister of Strategic Affairs Dermer for the Military Advocate General to conclude consideration of the case swiftly and thoroughly. The FCDO looked carefully at the very sad circumstances of their deaths and acknowledge their sacrifice and dedicated contribution but there are no national UK awards that they would be eligible for. However, we continue to support the family and the Prime Minister met with them on 9 June. |
Early Day Motions Signed |
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Monday 7th July Sammy Wilson signed this EDM on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Equitable national prostate cancer screening 51 signatures (Most recent: 22 Jul 2025)Tabled by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot) That this House welcomes the #ProactiveForYourProstate campaign led by Prostate Cancer Research (PCR); congratulates campaigners, such as Teignmouth campaigner Jason Yeo, for their work advocating for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for all men at age 50, and earlier for those in high-risk categories; calls for the Government to back this … |
Wednesday 2nd July Sammy Wilson signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Proposals to resettle people from Palestine in the United Kingdom 4 signatures (Most recent: 22 Jul 2025)Tabled by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth) That this House notes with deep concern reports of proposals and pressures to resettle Palestinian migrants from Gaza or elsewhere in the UK; recognises the acute and complex security, integration and social cohesion challenges such resettlement would pose; further notes that the UK has already experienced significant strain on its … |
Monday 21st July Sammy Wilson signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 7 signatures (Most recent: 22 Jul 2025) Tabled by: Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice - North Antrim) That this House calls on the Government to withdraw the Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 because they build on the division of the UK into two separate Vehicle Type Approval Regimes with the effects that new cars cannot move freely for sale across the country and new cars sold … |
Monday 21st July Sammy Wilson signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 6 signatures (Most recent: 22 Jul 2025) Tabled by: Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice - North Antrim) That this House opposes the imposition of the EU’s Import Control System 2 (ICS2) on the movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, treating all such movements as crossing an international customs border as if moving from one country to another from 1 September 2025; notes that these … |
Monday 21st July Sammy Wilson signed this EDM on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 9 signatures (Most recent: 22 Jul 2025) Tabled by: Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice - North Antrim) That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 661), dated 9 June 2025, a copy of which was laid before this House on 12 June, be annulled. |
Parliamentary Debates |
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UK Internal Market
37 speeches (8,715 words) Tuesday 22nd July 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) on securing this debate, which cuts to the very heart of what it - Link to Speech 2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Friend the Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) for his continued dedication to highlighting the absurdity - Link to Speech 3: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) for securing this debate.The majority of people in Northern Ireland - Link to Speech 4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) on securing this debate. - Link to Speech |
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Monday 21st July 2025 4:15 p.m. Environmental Audit Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Environmental sustainability and housing growth At 4:30pm: Oral evidence Mary Creagh MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Nature) at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Nick Barter - Deputy Director for Land Use at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Matthew Pennycook MP - Minister of State (Minister for Housing and Planning) at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government William Burgon - Director for Planning at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government View calendar - Add to calendar |
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 3:30 p.m. Speaker's Conference (2024) - Oral evidence Subject: Speaker’s Conference on the security of candidates, MPs and elections At 4:00pm: Oral evidence Jessica Zucker - Director of Online Safety Policy at Ofcom Almudena Lara - Director of Online Safety Policy at Ofcom View calendar - Add to calendar |