Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet
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I hope to be a little more brief and less pompous than previous speakers. I am indebted to the many who serve, day to day, in the Wood Green courts, and in other parts of the London circuit. I thank them for their hard work in this rather thankless legal environment. I commend the Minister for Courts and Legal Services on her active engagement with Members across the House on these...
What fiscal steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the level of use of food banks by families.
Does the Minister agree that everyone—including financial institutions such as the mutual sector, which often outperforms the private banking sector in access to finance and branch closure issues—needs to play their part in helping families and households at this critical juncture?
May I say how much I agree with the sentiment about our lovely Clerk? I look forward to hearing him play jazz. A lot of very serious matters are going on at the moment, but we have also just passed St David’s day, so may I encourage everyone to get their bicycles out? The Mayor of London has put in hundreds more kilometres of cycle lanes, and local authorities, including Haringey council,...
Does the Minister also agree that, where there is political will—such as the Mayor of London with his white storks and baby beavers, or even in progressive boroughs like Haringey that plant thousands of trees—we really have hope of making some progress?
I commend the Chancellor on her laser-like focus on young people, including on apprenticeship starts and maintenance grants. Will she work with the Education Secretary so that by the autumn, when the exact impact of this awful war in the middle east will be clear, we will know whether any help can be given to graduates, so that they can become the next people to get mortgages and to get on to...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. It has been a rather dreary February. Despite looking quite hard, I have not been able to see any of the rainbows or unicorns that we were promised during the debate of the Brexit days, or the millions promised to the NHS. However, let us be realistic and build our hopes for the future. My hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham...
My hon. Friend knows of what she speaks in the area of trade in the EU and manufacturing in the UK. The new UK-EU partnership includes an agreement to work towards making agrifood trade easier, as my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) mentioned. Ultimately, the sanitary and phytosanitary deal will add £9 billion to the UK economy in the long term, but we need to get on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with international partners to help ensure the safety of people in Cyprus.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in reference to the her Department's White Paper entitled A new vision for water, whether her Department has made further consideration of an Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for the water industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when the decision as to whether to grant a licence to the Rosebank oil field project will be made.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a legal right to basic banking services for charities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research on low grade glioma brain tumours.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the National Cancer Plan on support for people with brain tumours.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the provision of support to Cuba in the context of sanctions imposed on Cuba by the US on 29 January 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help (a) retain early-career researchers in experimental particle physics and (b) support the wider scientific research sector.
