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Yuan Yang
LabourMP for Earley and Woodley
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Backbench Business: Commonhold and leasehold reform and the regulation of property managing agents
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Questions
Prime Minister's Question Time
“Q11. Thames Water’s headquarters are local to my town of Reading, but it is their distant creditors who are really in charge. Investors should be rewarded for success, but they should pay for their failures. That is why I strongly welcome t…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Water Companies
“I thank the Minister for her statement. Tomorrow, I will be bringing Thames Water’s management into Parliament to answer a simple question: what improvements will my constituents get in return for the increases in their bills? My constituen…”
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Oral questions: Work and Pensions
“9. What assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of statutory sick pay.…”
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Oral questions: Cabinet Office
“7. What steps he is taking to improve relations with the EU.…”
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Oral questions: Defence
“Last month, satellite imagery of the Gaza war cemetery showed that Israeli forces had destroyed more than 100 allied graves using heavy machinery. This is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission site, and these are graves of British and allied…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Spring Forecast
“I thank the Chancellor for her strong statement and, in particular, for her words on deepening our alliances with our European partners. This is crucial for bringing down the cost of food and for healing the economic self-harm done by the C…”
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Questions
Oral questions: Education
“2. What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the system for supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Police Reform White Paper
“I thank the Home Secretary for the Government’s focus on funding for neighbourhood police patrols, which has enabled Thames Valley police to form a new anti-shoplifting unit in Reading. Retail crime is still far too frequent and blatant in …”
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Questions
Oral questions: Cabinet Office
“3. What steps he is taking to improve relations with the EU.…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Water White Paper
“Earlier this week, my team and I secured a £12,000 refund from Thames Water for one of my constituents whose pipes had been left to leak for almost half a year. Half a year ago, when I first met Thames Water bosses, I asked them to explain …”
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Oral questions: Housing, Communities and Local Government
“7. What steps he plans to take to reform the property management system.…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: OBR: Resignation of Chair
“I join the Chair of the Treasury Committee in thanking Richard Hughes for his service, and commend him for taking responsibility for the security leak that happened on his watch. In testimony given to the Treasury Committee yesterday, the O…”
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Budget Resolutions
“I rise to welcome the Budget, because despite the difficult economic times we are in, the Chancellor has made decisions that are strong, sound and fair. It is a strong budget that more than doubles the fiscal headroom to £22 billion. It is …”
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Budget Resolutions
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Questions
Oral questions: Home Department
“14. Whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of exempting British national overseas visa holders from the proposed extension of the settlement qualifying period on levels of net migration.…”
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Business of the House
“I have heard from local residents, as well as local refugee charities in Reading, who are all calling for the use of hotels to house asylum seekers to end as soon as possible. That practice began five years ago as a result of the previous G…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“I deeply welcome this long-awaited ceasefire and the release of the hostages. I thank the Prime Minister and his Ministers for their tireless work and international leadership on this front, including in the upcoming Gaza recovery summit, w…”
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Debate
Property Taxes
“The right honourable Gentleman has spent the past five minutes circling around figures gathered by a consultancy that aids the super-wealthy to migrate from this country. Where is the Conservative party getting its economic ideas from? It s…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Middle East
“I strongly welcome the Foreign Secretary’s historic move to recognise the state of Palestine and thank him for all the work he has done to progress this issue. While we follow the news from Gaza, let us remember the journalists who have ris…”
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Ministerial statement: Independent Water Commission
“I very much welcome the Secretary of State’s focus on protecting water customers, because my constituents and I have seen our Thames Water bills go up dramatically. We want to know that those bill increases are going towards improving the i…”
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Legislation
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
“Let me begin by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I rise to speak today with a sense of relief, because Reading football club has finally been sold. I was one of thousands in the stad…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life
“I hear the most thought-provoking questions from my youngest constituents. On a recent visit to an infant school, a six-year-old asked me what I thought the Government’s most important achievements might be. Today, I would like to tell her …”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
“As my honourable Friend the Member for Loughborough (Dr Sandher) mentioned, there were seven different sets of fiscal rules under the previous Government. The shadow Chancellor, the right honourable Member for Central Devon (Sir Mel Stride)…”
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Legislation
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
“I always appreciate the right honourable Gentleman’s remarks in the Treasury Committee and in the Chamber as an extremely fair-minded colleague. I appreciated his remarks in yesterday’s statement and the admission that the previous Governme…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Welfare Reform
“I thank the Secretary of State and her colleagues in the Department for their tireless work over the past week, and I very much welcome her commitment to co-production with disabled people in the Timms review. The atrocious handling of the …”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Spending Review 2025
“I strongly congratulate the Chancellor on the impact she has already had by reforming the way the Treasury works, in particular to unlock the capital investment that we need for the future of our economy. I also commend her for her commitme…”
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Statement
Ministerial statement: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
“I stand with my honourable Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed). She and I were denied entry to Israel only two months ago, and one of the reasons given was our advocacy for the sanctions that the Government have introd…”
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Urgent question
Urgent question: Thames Water
“It is possible for an American private equity company to walk away from Thames Water, but my constituents cannot. When water company bosses fail, it is our residents who pay: in sewage discharged into rivers and in their crumbling pipes and…”
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