Labour (Co-op)MP for York Central
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before coming to this House, the Prime Minister and I attended the launch of my uncle's book. It was entitled Fine Lines and Distinctions. And clearly sometimes we've had those differences, but I genuinely wish him a…”
“Short term. Let. accommodation bill.…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I do congratulate my honourable Friend, but I do want to ask about pharma in the light of the US, UK pharma deal. In meeting with academics yesterday, they expressed their concern that if we were to chan…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the.…”
“4. What steps she is taking to help tackle river pollution.…”
“11. What steps he is taking to support low-income households with increases in energy prices.…”
“I'm grateful, and I certainly want to concur with all of the remarks by the Right Honourable member for Harwich and North Essex, and think it's a really crucial point that he has made. But there's a wider issue, which I think the health bil…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I sincerely thank the Prime Minister for his statement today. As the chair of the all party parliamentary group on adoption, and he will know that I wrote to him at the start of the year about the importance…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The government has invested £45 million in flood defences in York, which will provide resilience until 2039, which coincides with the ending of the flood re scheme. So it's really important that we look long…”
“This debate should have taken place long before a deal was signed, and the fact that we are having it months afterwards shows that there is still no transparency. Last December, the pharma and health tech deal was signed, and it was made cl…”
“This decision looks like the politics of the past, not the future; a decision made in Whitehall, not in our communities. In 2022, RAF Linton-on-Ouse was deemed unsuitable as a site, because the drainage and sewage system would need major re…”
“11. What progress he has made on reducing levels of child poverty.…”
“It is really important that that scheme includes people who worked at British Rail Engineering Ltd, who were then privatised and lost their passes as a result. Will my right honourable Friend ensure that BREL is also included in that meetin…”
“I thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement. We know that over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza, and 21,000 have lifechanging injuries. We made a commitment that will bring around 300 children to the UK to have urgent surgery to…”
“Replacing Healthwatch will mean that, ultimately, patients will not have confidence in the commissioners. We have just heard one example, and I can offer many examples from York. Healthwatch York, which is phenomenal and is led by Siân Bals…”
“In York, 410 young people are not in education, training or employment, and we know from Alan Milburn’s report the causes of that. I particularly want to focus on mental health, and the fact that we do not have the right support in place fo…”
“The national must determine the “what”, and bringing NHS England into the Department is therefore the right decision. However, as many Members have said today, it is the “how”—how we do this at a local level—that determines the outcomes we …”
“I have listened very carefully to my constituents who identify as trans. One thing that is very clear is from the EHRC guidance is that it will cost organisations a significant amount to put on additional services and facilities if they are…”
“It seems that Mr Mandelson’s business interests permeated every aspect of government. This afternoon, we are to debate the Health Bill and the federated data platform. Palantir, a client of Peter Mandelson’s, will clearly have a specific in…”
“The levels of congestion on Wigginton Road are unacceptable. Residents’ air quality is affected, people are late for their hospital appointments and our whole city is snarled up because the hospital does not have a sufficient transport plan…”
“I congratulate His Majesty on delivering the Gracious Speech, and I concur with the honourable Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) that investing 0.7% of GDP in international development aid will bring greater stability …”
“I thank the Chief Secretary for his statement. I am interested in the costs. We know about the £75,000 payout, and obviously a police inquiry is incredibly costly. There are the costs to his Department in complying with the Humble Address. …”
“Q14. In 1777, Bootham Park hospital was given in trust to the people of York. Since it closed in 2015, NHS Property Services has squandered £5.5 million—almost its sale price—keeping the building empty, and threatened to sell it for a luxur…”
“At the beginning of February 2026, we learned from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Peter Mandelson had shared highly sensitive Government information with Jeffrey Epstein. At that juncture, if I had been in the Prime Minister’s shoe…”
“As the Minister knows, I have long campaigned around mental health. The strategy highlights that women disproportionately have poor mental health, and I welcome that recognition. However, action 49 says: “we will improve mental health suppo…”
“Academics in York, a human rights city, drew my attention to the Government consultation, “Family Returns: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns”, which seeks to extend the use of constraints, including physical restraint, t…”
“We know the stories, the concerns, the trauma, and the battles and fights. Of course, we know the embedded inequality in the system, in which parents with little agency have little voice. But what is so important is that we recognise that t…”
“Resorting to violence does not achieve anything, but it has left 2,000 Lebanese dead and 1.2 million displaced. As the Prime Minister is demonstrating, bilateral and multilateral dialogue is the way forward to get progressive change. Instea…”
“11. What progress he has made on introducing a registration scheme for short-term holiday lets.…”
“In York, we are ambitious to see modal shifts that get people out of their cars and on to buses, but we have an affordability problem. The mayor has a very generous transport budget, but only 6% can be spent on revenue. Will the Minister lo…”
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