Sir David Amess: Like all Members of Parliament, I have had residents raise these issues with me, and in Southend, they are particularly stressful for young couples starting out on home ownership. I say to the new Minister, who I welcome to his place: this is a complex problem that involves decisions by previous Governments of all persuasions, and a solution to it is far from easy. The whole history of...
Sir David Amess: ...but a Catholic, there is Jewish blood in each and every one of us. I would certainly have been proud to have been born a Jew, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with our local Jewish community at the Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation, the Southend and District Reform synagogue and the recently arrived Hassidic Jews. Over the past two years, these people, who are my friends, have...
Sir David Amess: ...hon. Friend find time for a debate on the management of trees by local authorities? While most people recognise the importance of tree-planting programmes, I am receiving a number of complaints in Southend about the damage that trees are doing to pavements and, sadly, to people’s property. There needs to be some sort of mechanism to resolve disputes between the local authority and the...
Grant Shapps: My hon. Friend from nearly the city of Southend is absolutely right to mention the importance of keeping the right level of trains running. I mentioned that we funded £10.1 billion—an unprecedented amount—to keep these trains running during the covid crisis to make sure that essential workers can get to work. Of course people should not be travelling to work unless they cannot do that...
...Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green) (Lab) Mark Tami Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Mark Tami Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Mark Tami Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Mark Tami Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Caroline...
Sir David Amess: I very much support and welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement of restrictions at our borders as a result of the current health crisis. Would she reassure me that regional airports, such as Southend, will be tasked to strictly enforce those rules, as a number of local residents have expressed concerns that coronavirus infections may be transmitted by arrivals through the airport?
Sir David Amess: I join my right hon. Friend in celebrating the success of our vaccination programme, which is working well in Southend. I also welcome his remarks about education. However, will he join me in reminding people that if they accept an invitation to be vaccinated, they should keep that appointment? We should all help elderly people to do that, otherwise vaccinators will have to make a very...
...Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green) (Lab) Mark Tami Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Mark Tami Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Mark Tami Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Mark Tami Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Caroline...
...Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green) (Lab) Mark Tami Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Mark Tami Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Mark Tami Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Mark Tami Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Caroline...
Sir David Amess: A number of my constituents in Southend West who suffer from mental or physical disabilities do not have access to computers or the internet. Many of them rely on in-person support in normal times, through places such as the citizens advice bureau or the wonderful Kings Money Advice Centre. With many in these vulnerable groups unfortunately now shielding, what assurances can my hon. Friend...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie: ...services. At the height of oil and gas activity in Aberdeen, we had daily flights to not only Heathrow but Gatwick, London City, Luton and Stansted; more recently Loganair trialled a service to Southend, but that did not last long. British Airways pulled out of providing a service to Gatwick and London City years ago. I found that hard to understand, as many of the airline’s holiday...
Sir David Amess: Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Anthony McKeever and his team on ensuring that people in Southend are vaccinated? Will he reassure me that Southend will receive its fair share of vaccines, that the four most vulnerable groups will all be vaccinated by the middle of February, and that people in their 80s and 90s will not be asked to travel long distances to a hub in Wickford?
...) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Marcus Jones Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Marcus Jones Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Marcus Jones Stuart...
...) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew...
Victoria Prentis: It is a great pleasure to take part in this excellent debate, called by my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess). There is only one issue about which he feels more strongly than Southend becoming a city: animals and their welfare. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you were to read his excellent book, “Ayes and Ears”— probably available in all good bookshops—you would be...
...) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Sir Alan Campbell Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew...
Chris Philp: ...Family Hearing Centre 1 Sheffield Magistrates Court 3 1 Shrewsbury Justice Centre 1 Snaresbrook Crown Court 5 1 3 South Tyneside Law Courts 1 1 Southend Combined Court 1 Southend Magistrates Court 5 1 Southwark Crown Court 3 2 1 1 St Albans Crown Court 2 St Helens County Court 2 Stafford...
...Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green) (Lab) Mark Tami Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con) Stuart Andrew Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab) Mark Tami Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab) Mark Tami Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab) Mark Tami Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con) Chris Loder Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West) (Con) Stuart Andrew Caroline...
Sir David Amess: I think we have reached a stage in the life of these debates when it is difficult to think of anything original to say. Nevertheless, the residents of Southend West want their voices to be heard through their Member of Parliament. I am pleased to say that the vaccination of most of the vulnerable people in Southend is well under way, but will the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social...
Steve McCabe: ...Britain is indeed a global and multilateralist Britain. In a debate last November, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge), pledged to ask officials to look specifically at whether this country should seek to take up one of those seats. It would be good to hear in this debate that real...