Parliamentary Activity

Taxes

12 Nov 2025

Commons debates

The shadow Chancellor has spent a lot of time in his speech talking about what people have said and done. I wonder if I could remind him that just a month ago he said that if he were in the...

Read more →

Bronze-age Heritage: Cambridgeshire

05 Nov 2025

Westminster Hall debates

Must Farm is just outside my constituency, in the constituency of the right hon. Member for North East Cambridgeshire (Steve Barclay), who I am very pleased to see here. It provides great...

Read more →

Houses in Multiple Occupation: Planning Consent

04 Nov 2025

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair today, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Steve Yemm) for securing this debate. HMOs can work for some people, such as students....

Read more →

Huntingdon Train Attack

03 Nov 2025

Commons debates

May I take this opportunity to put on the record my thanks to the first responders, the police and everyone on the train who put their lives at risk to protect others? So many people from the...

Read more →

Ageing and End-of-life Care

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

I am passionate about ensuring that older people in medical settings are not subjected to coercion over their medical decisions. I have recently been contacted by a whistleblower from the...

Read more →

Social Media: Safety

30 Oct 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Sam Carling received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle (a) the blackout challenge and (b) other physically harmful trends on...

Read more →

Property Service Charges

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for her work on this issue on the Treasury Committee. In my speech, I raised an insurance issue that my constituents have gone to the Financial Ombudsman Service about, but...

Read more →

Property Service Charges

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

My hon. Friend makes a very useful point. I should have clarified that the figure I gave does not include the private roads that were not supposed to be adopted; it was purely the ones that are...

Read more →

Property Service Charges

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

I am so pleased that we are taking the time today to debate property service charges in depth. Across my constituency, residents are drowning in soaring bills, deferred maintenance, opaque...

Read more →

Property Service Charges

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

The hon. Lady highlights the problem of residents being charged late payment fees. I have a number of constituents who never received an original letter demanding payment, but who are then...

Read more →

Business of the House

30 Oct 2025

Commons debates

Last month, I raised the case of my constituents in ex-Ministry of Defence housing in Wittering, who face huge backdated gas bills because their supplier will not take them off a Ministry of...

Read more →

New Clause 10 - Duty relating to allotments and nature rich spaces

28 Oct 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

When I was a council cabinet member, I had responsibility for allotments. We are talking about strategic authorities, and the hon. Lady is talking about powers for them. I can see a duty in the...

Read more →

New Clause 13 - Victims’ rights to make disclosures relating to criminal conduct

27 Oct 2025

Victims and Courts Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I really welcome this Government’s move to restrict the access of abusers to their children, in order to protect them. All too often, however, victims who are members of tightly knit, small...

Read more →

Clause 57 - Local authority governance and executives

23 Oct 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I ran a constitution review for Cambridge city council while I was a councillor there, and we spent a lot of time talking about the committee system versus the cabinet system. Does the hon....

Read more →

Topical Questions

23 Oct 2025

Cabinet Office

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I have been thinking about the cost of software licensing in the public sector, because North West Anglia NHS foundation trust is trying to move to an electronic patient record and one of the...

Read more →

Clause 15 - Other duties

22 Oct 2025

Renters’ Rights Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Helena Dollimore) about the delays to the Bill. I served on the Bill Committee more than a year ago now, and since then, so many...

Read more →

Financial Inclusion - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

22 Oct 2025

Westminster Hall debates

PwC analysis has shown that one in three adults in the UK struggle to access mainstream credit, largely due to poor or just thin credit files. That is causing a huge financial inclusion problem,...

Read more →

Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry

21 Oct 2025

Commons debates

I say to Opposition Members that their relentless politicisation of the issue is no doubt making it much harder to find a chair because it will be putting candidates off. As the inquiry gets...

Read more →

Schedule 19 - Local growth plans

21 Oct 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Gentleman moved an amendment specifically to rule out trade unions. The Bill does not rule them in, in any way. I am slightly concerned that he might be misleading us—inadvertently.

Read more →

Post-16 Education and Skills Strategy

20 Oct 2025

Commons debates

A constituent has written to me to highlight that they have successfully completed a level 3 BTEC diploma in musical theatre. To go on to university, they need an extended diploma—a third...

Read more →