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Profile

Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

Also represented Sheffield, Hallam

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Refugees: Ukraine
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Asylum: Rwanda
• Deportation: Albania
• Slavery

Currently held offices

• Member, Great British Energy Bill Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Energy Bill [HL] Committee (17 May 2023 to 29 Jun 2023)
• Member, Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Bill Committee ( 1 Mar 2023 to 8 Mar 2023)
• Member, Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill Committee (16 Nov 2022 to 23 Nov 2022)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 4 Jul 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Climate Change and Net Zero) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 15 Jun 2022)
• Member, Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee ( 3 Nov 2021 to 18 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (14 May 2021 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 13 Jul 2021)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Great British Energy Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Energy Bill Committee (16 out of 18)
• Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Great British Energy Bill: Clause 5 - Strategic priorities and plans 10 Oct 2024

  The shadow Minister’s amendment seems to be a bit of a fig leaf over the failure of the previous Government to secure good, high-quality, unionised jobs in the green energy sector. We need only look at offshore wind. I have cited these statistics before, but in 2010 some 70,000 jobs were promised from the UK offshore wind sector. Unfortunately, 10 years later, it had delivered only 11,900,...

• Public Bill Committee: Great British Energy Bill: Clause 5 - Strategic priorities and plans 10 Oct 2024

  I would not want to limit the possibilities of GB Energy with a number. It is a big number that the hon. Gentleman has put here but, to be honest, there are huge opportunities in all the energy areas—especially in the supply chain within the UK, but also in the transition of jobs. It is really important that we take it in the round and allow GB Energy to play its role. Not all jobs will...

• Public Bill Committee: Great British Energy Bill: Clause 5 - Strategic priorities and plans 10 Oct 2024

  Surely the shadow Minister agrees that Great British Energy will reduce the costs of energy, because the types of energy projects in which it will be investing will be of lower-cost energy production and we will be less reliant on foreign fuel markets, which have been very volatile for a range of reasons. I accept what he says about what he did as Minister in the last Parliament, but this...

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