Questions
Oral questions: Transport
“13. What support she plans to provide to local authorities to help them adopt new technologies for tackling potholes and road defects.…”
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Dr Ellie Chowns
Green Spokesperson (Constitutional Affairs)
Green PartyMP for North Herefordshire
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Questions
Oral questions: Health and Social Care
“Heatwaves, which are becoming more frequent and more severe due to the climate crisis, create a health crisis. We see that in excessive temperatures in our hospitals and other health buildings, and we see it in the huge, unprecedented deman…”
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Adjournment
Adjournment: Embodied carbon in buildings
“Now adjourn and I call Doctor Ellie any challenge on embodied carbon in buildings. Doctor Ellie challenge.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Death of Ann Widdecombe
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the Green Party, I'd like to say how shocked and saddened and horrified I am by Ann Whitcomb's horrific death, her brutal murder, and my sincere condolences go to her friends and family and all …”
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Debate
Backbench Business: Debate on potential merits of a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
“Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I warmly thank my honourable Friend for Sheffield Central for securing this very much needed debate. And it is very much needed because, despite the fact that we have discussed the need for a b…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“My constituency has been devastated by water pollution. We are now nearly seven years into a planning moratorium that has decimated the construction industry, because of pollution in the River Lugg, a tributary of the Wye. We are 10 years o…”
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Debate
Backbench Business: General Debate on Corridor Care in the NHS
“Thank you, Madam Speaker.…”
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Questions
Prime Minister's Question Time
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Our politics needs fixing fast. The broken outdated first past the post system has clearly failed to deliver stable government. We urgently need to rebuild trust in our democracy and ensure that everybody's vote coun…”
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Questions
Urgent question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if she will make a statement on Israel’s planned expansion in the E1 zone in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
“Thank you.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Defence Investment Plan
“What matters is not just how much we spend on defence, but what we spend it on and whether the Government’s choices offer good value for money. I am therefore deeply concerned that more than half the capital budget is for the nuclear progra…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
“I welcome Baroness Amos’s investigation, which has shone a light on the fact that these failings in maternity services are not isolated to one hospital or another, but exist across the piece. The Secretary of State rightly identifies that c…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Diethylstilbestrol: Intergenerational Impact
“I thank the honourable Member for securing this really important debate. One of my constituents, who is a DES daughter, came to see me, and she reported that her mother’s health records were lost when her GP moved back in the 1970s. Does th…”
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Debate
Cabinet Office
“I thank the honourable Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) for introducing the debate so well. He makes many excellent points, including that we face a wide range of threats to our security and resilience. Clearly, we face thre…”
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Debate
Climate Change
“Will the honourable Member give way?…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: G7 Summit
“The G7 summit took place in a country in the grip of an extreme heatwave—a heatwave that is now hitting the UK this week—yet climate change was not on the agenda, despite the fact that the climate crisis has huge impacts on human health and…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Thames Water
“As the Secretary of State pointed out, Thames Water has 16 million customers. It does not serve them; it fails them. That is nearly a quarter of the entire UK population and they do not get any choice—this is a natural monopoly. We are all …”
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Questions
Oral questions: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“I would like to start by joining you, Mr Speaker, and colleagues across the House in paying tribute to the memory of Jo Cox. Her words about seeking what we have in common, and working to counter the politics of division, are today more rel…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“In the face of consistent, sustained and systematic war crimes, violations and abuses by the Israeli Government, the Secretary of State has today announced further piecemeal sanctions and guidance, which go nowhere near acknowledging the re…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
“Like many of us here in this Chamber, I have not yet had the time to read the 1,000-plus pages of material released today, but the release shines the light of disinfectant on the political culture of how we treat the victims and survivors o…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“The Minister recognises that the Netanyahu Government are imposing a stranglehold on any possibility of Palestinian self-determination. The expansion of settlements and the ongoing horror in Gaza are all completely unacceptable. He said: “I…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East: Economic Response
“I would like to start with the positive. I know that care workers in my constituency of North Herefordshire will really welcome the increase in mileage rates, and I welcome the measures that the Chancellor has announced that seem to be star…”
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Debate
Business of the House
“Earlier this month, I was delighted to at last receive a response from the Department for Work and Pensions to a letter I wrote on 25 November last year, raising a constituent’s case. That is more than a five-month delay; the original ackno…”
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Debate
Business of the House
“It is clear that the tired old first-past-the-post voting system is utterly unfit for purpose. This winner-takes-all system means that a party can secure a huge majority of seats on a minority of votes, which poses a major democratic risk. …”
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Debate
Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
“Having recognised that, as Sir Philip Barton said this morning, there cannot be any doubt that there was pressure to get this “done as quickly as possible”—that is, to jump through all the hoops, to confirm an announcement that had already …”
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Questions
Prime Minister's Question Time
“The Prime Minister appointed Mandelson in a desperate and doomed attempt to pander to Donald Trump, despite knowing about Mandelson’s friendship with the paedophile Epstein, and his links to foreign states. The Prime Minister resisted vetti…”
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Debate
Peter Mandelson: Government Appointment
“Will the honourable Member give way?…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“Israel is acting illegally in supporting settlement expansion, in committing genocide in Gaza, and in attacking Lebanon and Iran. As the Secretary of State says, all those actions are flagrant violations of international law. She says that …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Security Vetting
“The Prime Minister says it is “staggering” and “unforgiveable” that he was not told about the vetting, but what is really staggering and unforgiveable is that he appointed Peter Mandelson before the vetting—that he appointed Peter Mandelson…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“In the Prime Minister’s 17-page statement, there was not one word of condemnation for the actions of the US, despite the fact that it started this illegal war. Last week, Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation. The Prime Minist…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Housing, Communities and Local Government
“Council tax is widely acknowledged to be a deeply regressive and unfair tax based on property values that are decades out of date, and the poorest households pay a much larger proportion of their income in council tax than the wealthiest. R…”
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