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Division Votes
31 Mar 2025 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context Tom Gordon 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 - 296 Noes - 164
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Tom Gordon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 62 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 166 Noes - 305
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Tom Gordon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 64 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 306
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Tom Gordon 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 - 296 Noes - 170
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Tom Gordon 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 - 304 Noes - 62
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Tom Gordon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 62 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 302
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Tom Gordon 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 - 302 Noes - 167
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Tom Gordon 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 - 301 Noes - 167
2 Apr 2025 - Energy Conservation - View Vote Context Tom Gordon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 56 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 349 Noes - 14

Speeches
Tom Gordon speeches from: Business of the House Tom Gordon contributed 1 speech (85 words) Thursday 3rd April 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House
Tom Gordon speeches from: UK-US Trade and Tariffs Tom Gordon contributed 1 speech (87 words) Thursday 3rd April 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business and Trade
Tom Gordon speeches from: Adoption Breakdown Tom Gordon contributed 10 speeches (3,105 words) Thursday 3rd April 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Education
Tom Gordon speeches from: Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund Tom Gordon contributed 1 speech (104 words) Tuesday 1st April 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Education

Written Answers
Adoption Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle adoption breakdown. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The department has provided funding of £9 million in this financial year to Adoption England to improve adoption services in Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs). This includes £3 million of funding to develop more Centres of Excellence as multidisciplinary teams across the country to provide specialist and therapeutic support to families and the development of national standards for adoption support. It also includes a new framework for an early support core offer, ‘Becoming a Family’, for the first twelve to eighteen months of placement and an Adoption Support Plan to guide assessments of a family’s support needs. All are designed to improve support and reduce the risk of an adoption breakdown. Adoption England are also planning work to develop a national protocol on how children’s services, front door services and adoption support teams work together to better support families at risk of adoption disruption. Adoption England and RAAs work closely with adopters on all of their projects to improve adoption support services. This includes considering the latest evidence of why adoption disruptions have occurred in their agencies and across the country. Since its inception in 2015, the department has provided over £400 million through the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) to provide therapeutic interventions for around 52,700 children who have left care under an adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order. The interventions are designed to help children and their families to deal with their trauma and attachment difficulties and have been independently assessed to have helped prevent adoption breakdowns. ASGSF funding for the next financial year is currently subject to business planning discussions and an announcement will be made shortly.
Foster Care Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of foster care placements that were unsuccessful in (a) England and (b) Wales in the 2023-24 financial year. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) As part of my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement and building on the £15 million investment in the Autumn Budget 2024, the department will provide an additional £25 million over two years, beginning in the 2026/27 and 2027/28 financial years, for foster care as part of Children’s Social Care Reform. We expect this funding to help recruit an additional 400 fostering families, provide better peer to peer support for foster carers, and ensure more children in care have stability through ensuring a foster care placement is available to them when needed. Currently, there are ten fostering regional programmes active across England, collaborating with 64% of all local authorities to recruit, retain and support foster carers. The department plans to move towards full national roll-out in the next financial year. This supports retention and support for carers through the recruitment of short break foster carers, who provide high quality care for children while their usual foster carers take a break. This programme also includes an expansion of ‘The Mockingbird Family Model’, an innovative evidence-based approach involving six to ten families grouped into a constellation around a hub home carer. Mockingbird includes peer support, respite and training. It was found to substantially improve retention by an independent evaluation, which showed that participating households were 82% less likely to deregister than households who did not participate. The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers. To improve retention, the department is also acting on areas that matter to foster carers. The allegations process is a key contributor to high levels of foster carer deregistration, and the department is committed to improving practice and guidance in this area. The department has also begun conversations with the sector about proposed changes to delegated authority, ensuring that all foster carers have delegated authority by default in relation to day-to-day parenting of the child in their care. Financial support plays a role in retaining and supporting foster carers. The National Minimum Allowance (NMA) was introduced by the Labour government in 2007 and has kept pace with inflation over time. Current levels of the NMA have been uplifted by 3.55% for the 2025/2026 financial year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/support-for-foster-parents/help-with-the-cost-of-fostering. Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers. Regarding ‘unsuccessful’ placements, the department publishes statistics for children looked after in England only, not Wales. Statistics for other countries in the UK are the responsibility of the devolved administrations. The department does not collect information on whether placements for children looked after were successful or not. These placements can end for a wide range of reasons and there is no specific category recorded as an ‘unsuccessful placement’. The latest information on the main reason for placement changes during the 2023/24 reporting year is published in the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c3ae926d-83e8-4ec9-3213-08dd6b9d125f.
Foster Care Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that local authorities provide sufficient support for foster carers. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) As part of my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement and building on the £15 million investment in the Autumn Budget 2024, the department will provide an additional £25 million over two years, beginning in the 2026/27 and 2027/28 financial years, for foster care as part of Children’s Social Care Reform. We expect this funding to help recruit an additional 400 fostering families, provide better peer to peer support for foster carers, and ensure more children in care have stability through ensuring a foster care placement is available to them when needed. Currently, there are ten fostering regional programmes active across England, collaborating with 64% of all local authorities to recruit, retain and support foster carers. The department plans to move towards full national roll-out in the next financial year. This supports retention and support for carers through the recruitment of short break foster carers, who provide high quality care for children while their usual foster carers take a break. This programme also includes an expansion of ‘The Mockingbird Family Model’, an innovative evidence-based approach involving six to ten families grouped into a constellation around a hub home carer. Mockingbird includes peer support, respite and training. It was found to substantially improve retention by an independent evaluation, which showed that participating households were 82% less likely to deregister than households who did not participate. The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers. To improve retention, the department is also acting on areas that matter to foster carers. The allegations process is a key contributor to high levels of foster carer deregistration, and the department is committed to improving practice and guidance in this area. The department has also begun conversations with the sector about proposed changes to delegated authority, ensuring that all foster carers have delegated authority by default in relation to day-to-day parenting of the child in their care. Financial support plays a role in retaining and supporting foster carers. The National Minimum Allowance (NMA) was introduced by the Labour government in 2007 and has kept pace with inflation over time. Current levels of the NMA have been uplifted by 3.55% for the 2025/2026 financial year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/support-for-foster-parents/help-with-the-cost-of-fostering. Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers. Regarding ‘unsuccessful’ placements, the department publishes statistics for children looked after in England only, not Wales. Statistics for other countries in the UK are the responsibility of the devolved administrations. The department does not collect information on whether placements for children looked after were successful or not. These placements can end for a wide range of reasons and there is no specific category recorded as an ‘unsuccessful placement’. The latest information on the main reason for placement changes during the 2023/24 reporting year is published in the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c3ae926d-83e8-4ec9-3213-08dd6b9d125f.
Foster Care Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) As part of my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement and building on the £15 million investment in the Autumn Budget 2024, the department will provide an additional £25 million over two years, beginning in the 2026/27 and 2027/28 financial years, for foster care as part of Children’s Social Care Reform. We expect this funding to help recruit an additional 400 fostering families, provide better peer to peer support for foster carers, and ensure more children in care have stability through ensuring a foster care placement is available to them when needed. Currently, there are ten fostering regional programmes active across England, collaborating with 64% of all local authorities to recruit, retain and support foster carers. The department plans to move towards full national roll-out in the next financial year. This supports retention and support for carers through the recruitment of short break foster carers, who provide high quality care for children while their usual foster carers take a break. This programme also includes an expansion of ‘The Mockingbird Family Model’, an innovative evidence-based approach involving six to ten families grouped into a constellation around a hub home carer. Mockingbird includes peer support, respite and training. It was found to substantially improve retention by an independent evaluation, which showed that participating households were 82% less likely to deregister than households who did not participate. The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers. To improve retention, the department is also acting on areas that matter to foster carers. The allegations process is a key contributor to high levels of foster carer deregistration, and the department is committed to improving practice and guidance in this area. The department has also begun conversations with the sector about proposed changes to delegated authority, ensuring that all foster carers have delegated authority by default in relation to day-to-day parenting of the child in their care. Financial support plays a role in retaining and supporting foster carers. The National Minimum Allowance (NMA) was introduced by the Labour government in 2007 and has kept pace with inflation over time. Current levels of the NMA have been uplifted by 3.55% for the 2025/2026 financial year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/support-for-foster-parents/help-with-the-cost-of-fostering. Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers. Regarding ‘unsuccessful’ placements, the department publishes statistics for children looked after in England only, not Wales. Statistics for other countries in the UK are the responsibility of the devolved administrations. The department does not collect information on whether placements for children looked after were successful or not. These placements can end for a wide range of reasons and there is no specific category recorded as an ‘unsuccessful placement’. The latest information on the main reason for placement changes during the 2023/24 reporting year is published in the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c3ae926d-83e8-4ec9-3213-08dd6b9d125f.
Adoption Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have experienced adoption breakdown in the last 12 months. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The department does not collect information centrally on families that have experienced adoptions that break down. The department publishes information on whether children starting to be looked after in any given year were known to have been previously adopted. The latest information available relates to the year ending 31 March 2024 and is in the table ‘CLA starting during the year by characteristics – National’ of the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/92f77d0d-7e95-45a1-f1db-08dd5cc661f7. This includes information on any known previous permanence arrangement for a child starting to be looked after. Information for the year ending 31 March 2025 will be published in autumn 2025.
Adoption Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Monday 7th April 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she collects data on the number of post adoption (a) disruptions and (b) breakdowns in England. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) I refer the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough to the answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 37457.

Written Answers

Adoption
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle adoption breakdown.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department has provided funding of £9 million in this financial year to Adoption England to improve adoption services in Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs).

This includes £3 million of funding to develop more Centres of Excellence as multidisciplinary teams across the country to provide specialist and therapeutic support to families and the development of national standards for adoption support. It also includes a new framework for an early support core offer, ‘Becoming a Family’, for the first twelve to eighteen months of placement and an Adoption Support Plan to guide assessments of a family’s support needs. All are designed to improve support and reduce the risk of an adoption breakdown.

Adoption England are also planning work to develop a national protocol on how children’s services, front door services and adoption support teams work together to better support families at risk of adoption disruption.

Adoption England and RAAs work closely with adopters on all of their projects to improve adoption support services. This includes considering the latest evidence of why adoption disruptions have occurred in their agencies and across the country.

Since its inception in 2015, the department has provided over £400 million through the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) to provide therapeutic interventions for around 52,700 children who have left care under an adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order. The interventions are designed to help children and their families to deal with their trauma and attachment difficulties and have been independently assessed to have helped prevent adoption breakdowns. ASGSF funding for the next financial year is currently subject to business planning discussions and an announcement will be made shortly.

Foster Care
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of foster care placements that were unsuccessful in (a) England and (b) Wales in the 2023-24 financial year.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

As part of my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement and building on the £15 million investment in the Autumn Budget 2024, the department will provide an additional £25 million over two years, beginning in the 2026/27 and 2027/28 financial years, for foster care as part of Children’s Social Care Reform. We expect this funding to help recruit an additional 400 fostering families, provide better peer to peer support for foster carers, and ensure more children in care have stability through ensuring a foster care placement is available to them when needed.

Currently, there are ten fostering regional programmes active across England, collaborating with 64% of all local authorities to recruit, retain and support foster carers. The department plans to move towards full national roll-out in the next financial year. This supports retention and support for carers through the recruitment of short break foster carers, who provide high quality care for children while their usual foster carers take a break.

This programme also includes an expansion of ‘The Mockingbird Family Model’, an innovative evidence-based approach involving six to ten families grouped into a constellation around a hub home carer. Mockingbird includes peer support, respite and training. It was found to substantially improve retention by an independent evaluation, which showed that participating households were 82% less likely to deregister than households who did not participate.

The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers.

To improve retention, the department is also acting on areas that matter to foster carers. The allegations process is a key contributor to high levels of foster carer deregistration, and the department is committed to improving practice and guidance in this area. The department has also begun conversations with the sector about proposed changes to delegated authority, ensuring that all foster carers have delegated authority by default in relation to day-to-day parenting of the child in their care.

Financial support plays a role in retaining and supporting foster carers. The National Minimum Allowance (NMA) was introduced by the Labour government in 2007 and has kept pace with inflation over time. Current levels of the NMA have been uplifted by 3.55% for the 2025/2026 financial year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/support-for-foster-parents/help-with-the-cost-of-fostering.

Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers.

Regarding ‘unsuccessful’ placements, the department publishes statistics for children looked after in England only, not Wales. Statistics for other countries in the UK are the responsibility of the devolved administrations.

The department does not collect information on whether placements for children looked after were successful or not. These placements can end for a wide range of reasons and there is no specific category recorded as an ‘unsuccessful placement’.

The latest information on the main reason for placement changes during the 2023/24 reporting year is published in the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c3ae926d-83e8-4ec9-3213-08dd6b9d125f.

Foster Care
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that local authorities provide sufficient support for foster carers.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers.

Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers.

Foster Care
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department also funds Fosterline, a free independent source of advice and support to current and prospective carers.

Finally, we encourage fostering services to adopt the Fostering Network’s ‘Foster Carer Charter’, which sets out clear principles of what support should be available to foster carers.

Adoption
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have experienced adoption breakdown in the last 12 months.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department does not collect information centrally on families that have experienced adoptions that break down.

The department publishes information on whether children starting to be looked after in any given year were known to have been previously adopted. The latest information available relates to the year ending 31 March 2024 and is in the table ‘CLA starting during the year by characteristics – National’ of the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistical release which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/92f77d0d-7e95-45a1-f1db-08dd5cc661f7. This includes information on any known previous permanence arrangement for a child starting to be looked after.

Information for the year ending 31 March 2025 will be published in autumn 2025.

Adoption
Asked by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Monday 7th April 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she collects data on the number of post adoption (a) disruptions and (b) breakdowns in England.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

I refer the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough to the answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 37457.

Early Day Motions
Tuesday 8th April 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights 25 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough) That this House celebrates the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), signed in 1950, which has been a cornerstone of the Council of Europe and continues to evolve to meet modern human rights challenges; recognises and celebrates the Convention’s role in protecting the rights and fundamental …

Early Day Motions

Tuesday 8th April

75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights

25 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025)
Tabled by: Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
That this House celebrates the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), signed in 1950, which has been a cornerstone of the Council of Europe and continues to evolve to meet modern human rights challenges; recognises and celebrates the Convention’s role in protecting the rights and fundamental …

Early Day Motions Signed
Tuesday 22nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Sentencing Guidelines and pre-sentence reports 16 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Josh Babarinde (Liberal Democrat - Eastbourne) That this House recognises that everyone should be treated equally under the law; further recognises the vital role pre-sentence reports (PSRs) play in providing courts with the information they need to make informed sentencing decisions that keep our communities safe while aiming to rehabilitate offenders; believes that the equal application …
Tuesday 22nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 NHS parking charges 14 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Sarah Gibson (Liberal Democrat - Chippenham) That this House notes with concern that hospital patients, staff and visitors have been charged over £1 billion in car parking fees over the past eight years; recognises the significant financial burden this places on National Health Service staff, who work tirelessly to provide care, and on patients and their …
Tuesday 22nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Future of children’s palliative care 15 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Will Forster (Liberal Democrat - Woking) That this House notes with concern the findings of the report entitled Built to Last? The State of Children’s Palliative Care in 2025, published by Together for Short Lives; recognises that the report reveals a stark postcode lottery in access to high-quality palliative care for seriously ill children across England, …
Tuesday 22nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Introduction of the Hillsborough Law and the 36th anniversary 22 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Tom Morrison (Liberal Democrat - Cheadle) That this House supports the urgent introduction of the Hillsborough Law to ensure justice, transparency and accountability in public inquiries and inquests; recognises the tireless campaigning of the Hillsborough families and survivors, who have fought for over three decades for the truth to be acknowledged and for meaningful reform; notes …
Tuesday 22nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Right to peaceful protest and freedom of assembly 13 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat - Hazel Grove) That this House recognises that the right to peaceful protest and freedom of assembly is a cornerstone of a free and democratic society and insists that it must be safeguarded; expresses serious concern over the wide-ranging draconian anti-protest powers introduced by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and …
Tuesday 8th April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Public libraries 18 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Ian Roome (Liberal Democrat - North Devon) That this House congratulates the regional winners of Library of the Year at the British Book Awards 2025, including Braunton Library in North Devon, winner of South West England's Library of the Year; recognises the important contribution libraries make to advancing reading and literacy skills among both children and adults, …
Tuesday 8th April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Rural bus services 32 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Edward Morello (Liberal Democrat - West Dorset) That this House recognises the significant challenges faced by rural communities in accessing reliable public transport, particularly in West Dorset constituency and the wider South West; notes with concern that many rural bus services remain sparse and irregular, making it difficult for elderly and disabled residents to travel to medical …
Tuesday 1st April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Disability hate crime 35 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West) That this House condemns the increase in recorded disability hate crime across the UK; notes with concern that, despite an overall drop on the previous year, there were more than 10,000 incidents recorded in England and Wales in the year to March 2024, with conviction rates for violent offences at …
Wednesday 2nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Tuesday 8th April 2025 Protecting children from data exploitation 37 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Victoria Collins (Liberal Democrat - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) That this House believes that social media platforms and online services must be designed with children’s safety in mind; notes that under current UK law, children as young as 13 can have their personal data collected, processed, and used for targeted advertising and algorithm-driven content; further notes that the majority …
Wednesday 2nd April Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Thursday 3rd April 2025 Israeli Defence Force attacks on humanitarian workers 63 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Tom Morrison (Liberal Democrat - Cheadle) That this House is deeply shocked by the killing of 15 paramedic and rescue workers in Gaza, whose bodies were discovered handcuffed in mass graves following an attack from the Israeli Defence Force; notes the statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemning the attack …
Monday 27th January Tom Gordon signed this EDM on Tuesday 1st April 2025 Snares 61 signatures (Most recent: 23 Apr 2025) Tabled by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West and Islwyn) That this House welcomes the Government’s commitment to ban the use of snares in England and is heartened that the governments of Wales and Scotland have already successfully implemented such a ban; notes that a 2016 motion calling for a ban on snares was passed unanimously, and further, that a …

Tom Gordon mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Adoption Breakdown 31 speeches (5,617 words) Thursday 3rd April 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Tom Gordon) on securing this important debate. - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, Attorney-General Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: the meeting Members present: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Chair); Juliet Campbell; Lord Dholakia; Tom Gordon

Bill Documents
Apr. 09 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 9 April 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: : 10 and NC14 _NC1 Victoria Collins Caroline Voaden Vikki Slade Liz Jarvis Rachel Gilmour Tom Gordon
Apr. 09 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 9 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon Vikki Slade .
Apr. 08 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 8 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon .
Apr. 07 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 7 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon .
Apr. 04 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 4 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon .
Apr. 03 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 3 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon .
Apr. 02 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 2 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon .
Apr. 01 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 1 April 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _4 Tom Gordon ★.

Tom Gordon - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 1st April 2025 9 a.m. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Innovation showcase At 9:30am: Oral evidence Dan Cathie - CEO at Silveray At 9:45am: Oral evidence Dan Norris MP - Mayor of the West of England at Mayoral Combined Authority Councillor Mary Ann Brocklesby - Cardiff Capital Region Chair and Leader at Monmouthshire County Council Mayor Kim McGuiness - Mayor of the North East of England at North East Combined Authority At 10:35am: Oral evidence Rt Hon Greg Clark - Chair at Warrick Innovation District Dr Natasha Boulding - CEO at Low Carbon Materials Dan Cathie - CEO at Silveray View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 8th April 2025 9 a.m. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Innovation showcase At 9:30am: Oral evidence Itxaso Ariza - Chief Technology Officer at Tokamak Energy At 9:45am: Oral evidence Tom Adeyoola - Tech entrepreneur and founder at Metail View calendar - Add to calendar
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 2 p.m. Human Rights (Joint Committee) - Oral evidence Subject: Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 29th April 2025 9 a.m. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms At 9:45am: Oral evidence Mark Bunting - Director, Online Safety Strategy Delivery at Ofcom John Edwards - Information Commissioner at Information Commissioner's Office View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 29th April 2025 9 a.m. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 29th April 2025 9 a.m. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Innovation showcase At 9:30am: Oral evidence Jake Davies - Managing Director at CoolLED At 9:45am: Oral evidence Mark Bunting - Director, Online Safety Strategy Delivery at Ofcom John Edwards - Information Commissioner at Information Commissioner's Office At 10:35am: Oral evidence The Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness at House of Lords Talitha Rowland - Director for Security and Online Harm at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology View calendar - Add to calendar
Wednesday 30th April 2025 2 p.m. Human Rights (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Written Evidence - The Centre for Digital Assets and Democracy DCG0038 - Digital centre of government Digital centre of government - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Wednesday 12th March 2025 Oral Evidence - National Council of Resistance of Iran, and Chloe Cheung Transnational repression in the UK - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from Chief Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to a response from HM Treasury use of scientific advice, dated 27 March 2025 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, in relation to savings and productivity benefits from digitisation of public sector services, dated 28 March 2025 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - SSE plc FLS0044 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) FLS0039 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - Mines Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India FLS0038 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply FLS0048 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - HACE: Data Changing Child Labour Limited FLS0047 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - Solar Energy UK FLS0026 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - CCLA Investment Management FLS0040 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero FLS0062 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Written Evidence - Ethical Trading Initiative FLS0057 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Tuesday 1st April 2025 Oral Evidence - Silveray Innovation showcase - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Tuesday 1st April 2025 Oral Evidence - Mayoral Combined Authority, Monmouthshire County Council, and North East Combined Authority Innovation, growth and the regions - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Tuesday 8th April 2025 Oral Evidence - Tokamak Energy Innovation showcase - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Tuesday 8th April 2025 Oral Evidence - Metail Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Friday 4th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence to the Committee from the Minister for Prisons, Probations and Reducing Reoffending regarding the Lay Observers Annual Report dated 14 March 2025 Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Friday 4th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence to the Committee from the Minister for Energy regarding the Great British Energy Solar Scheme dated 21 March 2025 Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, Attorney-General Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, Attorney-General Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Tuesday 8th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from the Committee to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade regarding Employment Rights Bill Dated 8 April Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Tuesday 8th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from the Committee to the Minister of Energy regarding Human Rights in Supply Chains Dated 8 April Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Wednesday 9th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from the Committee to the Lord Chancellor regarding Sentencing Guidelines Bill Dated 8 April Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Wednesday 9th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from Permanent Secretary of State for the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, in relation to further information on the 2024-25 Supplementary estimate and memorandum, dated 7 April 2025 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Wednesday 9th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government, in relation to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, dated 1 April 2025 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Wednesday 9th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, in relation to DSIT’s R&D allocations for 2025/26, dated 4 April 2025 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Thursday 10th April 2025 Report - 1st Report - Pre-appointment hearing for the Executive Chair of Innovate UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Thursday 17th April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence to the Committee from the Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls regarding the "Hillsborough Law" dated 11 April 2025 Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Select Committee Inquiry
3 Apr 2025 Science diplomacy Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (Select) Not accepting submissions The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is launching an inquiry into the role of science diplomacy and research and development (R&D) in supporting the UK Government’s growth missions, enhancing the UK’s international influence, and contributing to national security. Science diplomacy encompasses the political support for science in an international context, cross-border research collaborations, science advice for global policymaking, and public engagement activities. The inquiry will assess the Government’s strategy for international science, the value of international science collaborations, and the benefits of using science to enhance national branding, international influence, and conflict resolution. It will also consider how international science and innovation projects support UK economic growth, how to attract global R&D investment, and the role of science in bolstering the UK’s soft power.

Select Committee Inquiry

3 Apr 2025
Science diplomacy
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (Select)
Not accepting submissions

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is launching an inquiry into the role of science diplomacy and research and development (R&D) in supporting the UK Government’s growth missions, enhancing the UK’s international influence, and contributing to national security. Science diplomacy encompasses the political support for science in an international context, cross-border research collaborations, science advice for global policymaking, and public engagement activities.

The inquiry will assess the Government’s strategy for international science, the value of international science collaborations, and the benefits of using science to enhance national branding, international influence, and conflict resolution. It will also consider how international science and innovation projects support UK economic growth, how to attract global R&D investment, and the role of science in bolstering the UK’s soft power.