Questions
Oral questions: Home Department
“11. When she plans to announce the number of seasonal worker visas available for 2027.…”
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Josh Fenton-Glynn
LabourMP for Calder Valley
What Josh said recently
Statement
Ministerial statement: State of Nature and Climate 2026
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I represent a constituency at the front line of the climate and nature emergency. With flood risk part of our daily life. Most of the future have demonstrated that restoring peatland can slow water flow on h…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Civil Service Pensions Update
“Deputy Speaker I've had 14 constituents contacted me about this and raised their cases. Only three of them have been resolved. The unresolved ones include bereavement cases, which we were told would be prioritised. I went to the drop in for…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Flood Insurance: Reforming Flood Re
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
“I echo what was said by my colleague from the Health and Social Care Committee, the honourable Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran). Baroness Amos pointed to workforce challenges and their impact on care and safety, and she not…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Justice
“Will the Minister reassure me that we remain committed to repealing in this Parliament the presumption of contact in family courts, to bring full justice to the 67 children murdered at the hands of abusive ex-partners with whom contact shou…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Steel Trade Measure
“I welcome the Minister’s statement, and particularly the decision to remove products where there is no domestic production. That will make a real difference to specialist manufacturers in Calder Valley, but they are understandably worried a…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
“In her remarks this morning, Donna Ockenden noted that maternal deaths are at a 20-year high, and total clinical negligence costs are greater than the money spent on maternity services. That should give us pause for thought. It is a nationa…”
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Legislation
Health Bill
“My honourable Friend is making some powerful points. I hear again and again from parents that while different commissioning bodies argue about who is responsible, children fall through the cracks. Does she agree that we must urge the Secret…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
“I try to start from a position of empathy on this topic. I have no idea what it is to experience the pain of being born in a body that does not accord with one’s gender, and I do not know what it is to have the very real fear of assault tha…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: High Speed 2 Reset
“I welcome the clarity and determination to deliver on HS2. Rail investment is infrastructure investment, which drives growth, but may I urge the Secretary of State to look at driving growth between towns as well as between cities, for examp…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Women’s Health Strategy
“I welcome this strategy, having worked on maternity and medical misogyny on the Health and Social Care Committee. I will bring up the thorny issue of sexual health. In a recent sitting of the Committee, we heard that a third of sexual healt…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“I commend our ongoing refusal to be drawn into this conflict. May I ask the Prime Minister what steps we are taking to ensure that UK bases are not used for offensive operations, and furthermore that they will not be used for any ill-advise…”
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Legislation
Victims and Courts Bill
“I thank the Minister for going further in making these transcripts available. Will she let us know what the next steps in that process will be? How quickly will we see real movement to allow people to have access to their sentencing remarks…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“May I commend our current position of not being drawn further into the US and Israeli operation in Iran? Can the Secretary of State confirm that we will continue to avoid any escalation, and will act only in ways that are in defence of Brit…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Youth Unemployment
“I welcome this announcement. It will make young people’s lives and futures better. Calder Valley is famous for its world-class specialist manufacturing, but in the UK, one third of manufacturers are over 60. Can my right honourable Friend p…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Heating Oil Support
“In the rural parts of my constituency, one in 20 houses relies on heating oil. One of my constituents told me that his bill had gone up by 270%, while other constituents have had their deliveries cancelled. I welcome the £53 million of inve…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: GP Contract
“When this Government took office, the number of registered patients per GP in Calder Valley was much higher than the national average, with one GP surgery in Brighouse having 600 additional patients per GP. Given the new GP contracts and th…”
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Debate
Business of the House
“Last October I sent a number of freedom of information requests to the Nursing and Midwifery Council on sexual harassment and misconduct cases. However, I have still not received a reply. For these bodies to be trusted, they must be account…”
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Legislation
Courts and Tribunals Bill
“Will the honourable Lady give way?…”
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Questions
Prime Minister's Question Time
“Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 4 March.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“No one should shed a tear for the Iranian leadership; this was a brutal and oppressive regime. However, there are other brutal and repressive regimes in the world. A brutal and oppressive regime is never, in and of itself, a reason to attac…”
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Legislation
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
“I am excited to hear that the honourable Member thinks work should pay. Can she tell us why, under the last Government, we went from one in three children in poverty having a parent in work to two in three children in poverty having a paren…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Transport
“2. What recent discussions she has had with stakeholders on improvements to the Calder Valley train line.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: National Cancer Plan
“This Tuesday would have been my brother Alex’s 54th birthday, but sadly we lost him to cancer last year. That is why I am really proud that this plan will revolutionise treatment, care and research into cancer, as well as focusing on rare c…”
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Legislation
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
“Consistently wrong.…”
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Debate
Business of the House
“A recent proposal, now dropped, for a merger between two multi-academy trusts in my constituency, the Pennine Alliance Learning Trust and the Trinity MAC, led to me getting over 100 letters, and over 2,000 people signing a petition in just …”
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Legislation
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
“I travelled through Manchester Victoria station on the day of the arena bombing and I saw the young people on their way into that concert. They were young, vibrant, excited, happy—all the things that they deserved to be, doing the most norm…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Arctic Security
“I thank the Secretary of State for the strong statement she has made. I have been disappointed to hear so much politicisation of a national security issue in this House, but can she confirm that, just as the future of Ukraine should be dete…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Northern Powerhouse Rail
“As a Yorkshire MP, I could not be more proud of the fact that it is a Labour Government who are delivering this change. I urge the Secretary of State to look again at the Calder Valley line. It needs electrification, perhaps as part of phas…”
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