Labour (Co-op)MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central
“Very much. Madam Deputy Speaker. I'm broadly sympathetic and supportive of the proposals for Staffordshire. As the only MP in Staffordshire already in a single unitary authority, but could I ask the Secretary of State why he didn't use the …”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I say to the minister, we should never apologise for taking bold action that protects well-paid, unionised jobs in this country and and is crucial to the reindustrialisation of our nation, which we know…”
“Thank you. Thank you, the honourable friend from Harlow for giving way. And he's absolutely right about the malign influence. He would have seen the same report that I did that when following some of the attacks in Iran and the Iranian peop…”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My constituents in Stoke on Trent Central are used to just plugging something in and switching a switch and there being electrical power, but I think we can all accept that. With the extreme weather becomin…”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The the statement by the leader also says there'll be a statutory instrument on national security. I hope that will be the a C that allows us to finally prescribe the IRGC, who have been sufficiently behind much of t…”
“Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's quite something to listen to. The Shadow Secretary of State, I'm not sure. Is he? Yes. Said his party oversaw net migration increases of 2.5 million in four years and now has the brass neck to stand here and l…”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Can I thank the Minister for her answers? But she will know that local government reorganisation is one half of the coin, with devolution on the other, and in places like Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. T…”
“Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. And before I start on the adjournment debate regarding ceramics, can I declare my interest as a member of the GMB trade union and chair of the all party parliamentary group on ceramics that is prov…”
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“Titanic Brewery, based in Stoke-on-Trent, makes a fabulous pint—I highly recommend the plum porter. However, the Minister will know that as an independent brewery, access to market is quite difficult because of the way that tied pubs insist…”
“Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I will be brief because I know there is something else happening this evening that other people want to engage in. I'm not entirely sure what that is, but apparently it's quite popular. I just wanted to r…”
“I welcome the Minister’s comment that no Jewish person should have to change what they wear or how they go about their life, but she will know that this is exactly what is happening in this country, not least because antisemitism is perpetr…”
“I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am a governor at two educational institutions, and I chair the all-party parliamentary group on sixth form education. My question is on access to th…”
“The Minister will be aware that the sanctioned oil and gas that is sold by Russia to Turkey and China is often used by companies in those countries to manufacture products, including ceramics. Those products are then dumped into the UK, dis…”
“I just want to add to that list the 19,000 members of the National Society of Pottery Workers, which now forms part of the GMB, who, even when the strike ended, still found their jobs at risk because the supply of coal was not available to …”
“I declare an interest as chair of the all-party group on ceramics. I thank the Chancellor for today’s announcement, and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade and the Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my honourable Fri…”
“Just nine days before Mr Churchill invited Ernie Bevin to become the Minister for Labour in his Government, Mr Bevin was stood in Hanley town hall in my constituency giving a public rally address on the importance of the working class towar…”
“I want to be clear in my own mind. Opposition Members seem to think that they have extracted from the Government a commitment that social media for under-16s will be banned as a result of the amendment. The wording does not say that— [Inter…”
“As someone who was a parish councillor in a previous life and now represents a seat that has no parish level of governance whatsoever, I wonder whether the Minister sees a role for arbitration over where there is conflict between what that …”
“I congratulate my honourable Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham), my Staffordshire neighbour, on securing this urgent question. The Government are taking the right steps towards this procurement strategy, but there is a lot more t…”
“To follow the point of the honourable Member for Mid Buckinghamshire (Greg Smith), too many aspects of antisemitism are being normalised in this country. That does not start with attacks on places of worship or on clearly Jewish buildings; …”
“Let us start with the positives. I am glad that there is now some form of recognition that there is an industrial energy crisis, and that the Secretary of State has brought forward something that helps some sectors. The bad news for the sec…”
“On 28 April, it will be Staffordshire Day across the Houses of Parliament. There will be a marketplace in the Jubilee Room from 12 pm till 2 pm, and there will be Staffordshire oatcakes in the Tea Room for breakfast. Could I, through a ques…”
“As the Home Secretary will be aware, there are 28 Prevent priority areas across the country—there used to be 40, and Stoke-on-Trent was one of them until 2023, when the last Government changed the criteria. She will also know that for an ar…”
“I accept the Minister’s point about having more home-grown energy, and renewables can be good for insulating ourselves from economic shocks, but he will know that great swathes of our industrial base are gas dependent, not least the ceramic…”
“The Minister rightly talks about household budgets, but the other impact, particularly of the gas price, is industrial energy costs in this country, not least for the ceramics sector, which is gas-dependent rather than electric-dependent. W…”
“I will speak to the two new clauses that stand solely in my name, which relate to the impact of the changes to the remote gaming and remote betting duties. I do not intend to relitigate the rights and wrongs of those changes; we have had a …”
“Given that the Government used the National Security and Investment Act 2021 to extract a golden share, because they considered Royal Mail to be national critical infrastructure, I find it slightly odd that, having recognised its importance…”
“I welcome the community cohesion strategy, which the Labour group of Hope not Hate, which I chair, has been calling for. The Secretary of State will know that the other side of the coin when building community cohesion is the counter-extrem…”
“I welcome the Chancellor’s reiteration of the British industry supercharger scheme, but she will know that it helps only 10% of this country’s energy-intensive industry—electro-intensive industry in particular. The price per therm of gas is…”
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