LabourMP for Sheffield South East
“I do apologise. I'm going to have to leave straight away to go and chair Westminster Hall, as I explained to you. can I say to my right honourable Friend, thank you for doing this work. It's a very challenging piece of work. And I think the…”
“Clive Betts thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Public Accounts Committee and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-brown, the Chair as. Sorry.…”
“I welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to buy British and create British jobs. When he produces his further strategy on procurement in the autumn, will he try to get a joined-up approach to procurement across Government, as that is i…”
“It is absolutely right in principle for the Government to try to defend the steelmaking sector, particularly Liberty at Stocksbridge and Rotherham. However, there are downside implications for smaller firms, particularly manufacturing firms…”
“3. What steps she plans to take in response to increases in settler violence in the west bank.…”
“I congratulate my right honourable Friend on his appointment—he is very well suited to the job at hand. I am sure he will understand, though, if I also express my disappointment that his predecessor and my constituency neighbour, my right h…”
“The Public Accounts Committee has had a number of hearings on this issue, and I am sure the Chair, the honourable Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown), will want to ask some questions. First of all, there is a shared resp…”
“I welcome the strategy. Sheffield’s history is inextricably linked to steel, and we want our future to be linked to steel as well. My right honourable Friend mentioned the excellent work that Forgemasters is doing to provide steel for our n…”
“I warmly welcome the Minister’s statement. May I raise two specific issues relating to post offices in my constituency? First, Mosborough post office, a fairly small but growing business, is on the margins of viability. Will the Minister th…”
“The Public Accounts Committee has looked at the cost of home-to-school transport. Clearly, one of the drivers is the cost of sending kids with special needs miles away from their home to very expensive private schools. The Government have a…”
“My right honourable Friend is being a little unfair to the Tories. The biggest cuts under austerity from 2010 to 2024 came from 2010 to 2015 when the Lib Dems were in coalition, so perhaps they should share some of the blame.…”
“I really welcome this plan, and the efforts of my honourable Friend the Minister and right honourable Friend the Secretary of State in putting it together. I will just raise one credit and one request to go a bit further. First, when I had …”
“I welcome the changes that the Minister is introducing for pubs and music venues. Can he assure me that the changes for music venues will apply to Sheffield arena, which currently, under the proposal, is being treated like an Amazon warehou…”
“First, I congratulate my honourable Friend the Minister on the magnificent job he has done with this legislation, as well as the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, my honourable Friend the Member for Vauxhall …”
“I am sure the Secretary of State will agree that it is not just about having the right policy, which I am sure this is; it is also about the right implementation. My constituents Mr and Mrs Henley-Smith had a heat pump installed under a pre…”
“I thank the Secretary of State for the improvements announced to the Sheffield-Leeds line and for some of the improvements to the Sheffield-Manchester line, although I agree with my right honourable Friend the Member for Manchester Central …”
“Although this issue is clearly of importance to the farming industry, it is also of importance to small firms in the steel and engineering sector in my constituency. The owner of Special Quality Alloys, Benn Beardshaw, wrote to tell me that…”
“I do not know whether my honourable Friend is as surprised as I am that the official Opposition could not even bear to mention the word “austerity” when they responded. Before we move on, there was a case of amnesia from the Lib Dems, who f…”
“I congratulate my honourable Friend on his efforts to get the homes built that the country needs, particularly for young people, who face the prospect of never being able to afford a home of their own. I have two questions. First, does he t…”
“I would like to follow up on the question raised by my honourable Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (Justin Madders) about social media. This is really important. If a foreign Government are funding third parties to post …”
“May I say to my right honourable Friend that in the terrible time that Sheffield Wednesday fans have been through in the last few months, not one of them has ever asked me what is happening with this report and review? They say to me, “How …”
“I welcome the statement from my honourable Friend. It is fairly clear that the Israeli Government agreed to the peace deal only because they felt they had to, not because they necessarily wanted to. After all this time, we still have not go…”
“On the Public Accounts Committee we regularly hear examples of Government IT systems that are out of date, inefficient and open to fraud and hacking. That is the reality of it. When looking at other countries such as Estonia and Denmark, wi…”
“Following on from the question by the right honourable Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), the reality is that Putin has become emboldened since he met President Trump. No longer is there pressure for an immedia…”
“I am pleased to see the Minister back at the Dispatch Box, although I am not sure whether he is equally pleased to come back to the Chamber once again to answer questions about the illegal actions of the Israeli Government. We have a situat…”
“First, I thank the Minister for her action—after 14 years of inaction by the Conservative party, it is a welcome change. Sheffield is synonymous with steel, particularly special steels, after Harry Brearley invented stainless steel in the c…”
“I very much welcome the commitment to recognising the Palestinian state. Some of us have fought for that for many years. I also welcome the rest of the Foreign Secretary’s statement, in so far as it goes. He is right to condemn what the Isr…”
“Would the shadow Minister like to join me in thanking the shadow Secretary of State, his right honourable Friend the Member for Daventry (Stuart Andrew), for first introducing legislation to this House that promoted an independent football …”
“Let me say to the Secretary of State: well done. This is a really ambitious and excellent programme. On the subject of cancer care, in the past few years we have both had good experiences of the NHS at its best, but it is important to impro…”
“Will my right honourable Friend give way?…”
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