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St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Sir John Whittingdale) on securing the debate, and I echo everything he said in illustrating the sorry and sad situation in which our constituents find themselves with regard to what is a much-loved local hospital. Naturally, we both speak from our personal experience, but it is fair to say that both...

St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon (14 Mar 2024)

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St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: May I take part in the debate?

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: My hon. Friend is making an important point. It is also imperative that we recognise that some of the spending is based on forecasts. We constantly hear from the Home Office its forecasts on expected irregular migrants, small boat arrivals and so on. A methodology can be applied to be much more transparent about the funding that is allocated and the deterrence measures that can be put in...

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. There is an important point to make about returns agreements and removing individuals. Costs aside, section 40 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 amended section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 to cover re-entry bans. I do not know whether the Government have implemented that, but unless it is enforced, it will lead to the very problems...

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: It is a pleasure to follow the thoughtful and considered remarks of the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, and her forensic analysis of the funding. That funding has not been as transparent as it should have been, and I will expand on that point. I am pleased to be able to speak on the estimates for the Home Office, and to make some wider observations about expenditure. Controlling...

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: My hon. Friend makes an important point and gives me the chance to expand on that from an operational perspective. That was over a year ago. It was considered a flagship announcement from the Government, but we have not seen that detention centre in France open up yet. Although I think it was due to open in 2025, the Government should report back on it. What has happened to the money? What...

Extremism Definition and Community Engagement (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: I thank Dame Sara Khan, Sir Mark Rowley and Sir William Shawcross for all the work they have each done in this important area, including during my time as Home Secretary. I also thank the Secretary of State. Although the proposals are non-statutory and will act as a guide for civil servants and Ministers, can the Secretary of State explain what evidential threshold will be applied by the new...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (14 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: Extended producer responsibility will add financial burdens to amazing food producers, such as Wilkin & Sons in Tiptree in my constituency, so can the Secretary of State say what he is doing to keep financial costs down and reduce red tape for great British food manufacturers?

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill (13 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: Does my right hon. Friend share my view that over the decades we have seen such a fall or drop-off in individuals starting their own business, younger people in particular, because of these concerns about the tax burden, how regulated it is and how difficult it is? By dealing with the whole long-standing issue of IR35, we could open up a new marketplace and encourage a new generation of...

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill (13 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: There is quite a lot to say after the contributions from both Front Benchers, which I will come to in a minute. I welcome the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I support the reduction in the rate of national insurance. I will use my time to discuss longer-term tax reforms that should be introduced. Before I speak to the cuts and changes to national insurance that are the basis of...

Health and Wellbeing Services: Essex (12 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss these important health issues across Essex. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Sir John Whittingdale) and my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince) for joining the debate, and to the Minister for a concise series of well-considered remarks. We have touched on a range of issues, including the challenging...

Health and Wellbeing Services: Essex (12 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: I beg to move, That this House has considered health and wellbeing services in Essex. I am grateful that you are chairing the debate, Mr Henderson, and pleased to see that my right hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Andrew Stephenson) is the Minister responding. He has been very good on many issues that I have taken to him thus far. I will cover a wide and diverse range of health-related...

Health and Wellbeing Services: Essex (12 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and he has teed up the issue I wanted to raise—community healthcare provision and localised services. I have just mentioned our big hospitals in Essex, but it is absolutely vital that we have localised healthcare provision. That brings me on to a local issue that affects my right hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and me—the future of St Peter’s...

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Horizon IT System ( 8 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what weighting the Post Office Horizon compensation scheme gives to individual sub-postmaster’s (a) mental health, (b) physical health and (c) family circumstances when calculating compensation offers.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: General Practitioners: Essex ( 8 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase the number of GPs in Essex.

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Horizon IT System: Shareholder Executive and UK Government Investments ( 7 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish (a) reports and (b) briefings provided to (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in her Department and its predecessor Departments by the (A) former UK Shareholder Executive and (B) UK Government Investments on the Horizon IT system.

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Royal Mail: Essex ( 7 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of Royal Mail's compliance with the universal service obligation in each postal code area in Witham constituency in each week of (a) 2023 and (b) 2024; on how many occasions each post code area in (i) Essex and (ii) Witham constituency did not receive (A) letters and (B) parcels in...

Written Answers — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Wind Power: North Sea ( 7 Mar 2024)

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to approve future sites for offshore wind farms in the North Sea.


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