Parliamentary Activity

Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry

09 Dec 2025

Commons debates

I hugely welcome the appointment today of the chair and panel members, all of whom are brilliant appointments and who will do a thorough job. I am also pleased to see religion referred to in the...

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Camden Nursery Sexual Abuse Case

04 Dec 2025

Commons debates

This awful case underlines how important it is that we implement the recommendations from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse as soon as possible. As my hon. Friend the Member for...

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Ely: Railway Upgrade

03 Dec 2025

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Member for Ely and East Cambridgeshire (Charlotte Cane) for securing this debate. As she said, there is a lot of support for this scheme across the political spectrum, and it...

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Angiolini Inquiry

02 Dec 2025

Commons debates

I hope that after the statement, we will all go away and check whether our police forces are in that 26% who still do not have those basic policies in place and, if that is the case, seek to...

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Income tax (charge)

01 Dec 2025

Commons debates

The hon. Member has made his point. As we heard from the Chancellor, all NHS efficiencies will be reinvested in its budget, and I welcome that. My constituents rarely raise with me the specific...

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Income tax (charge)

01 Dec 2025

Commons debates

That is very generous, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am delighted to speak about a Budget that builds on what this Government started last year and takes the necessary decisions to grow the economy and...

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New Clause 45 - Publication of addresses of members etc in authority registers

25 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

Does my hon. Friend therefore agree that cross-border licensing is causing huge enforcement problems, because authorities that are miles away cannot properly investigate such issues?

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New Clause 45 - Publication of addresses of members etc in authority registers

25 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I recognise what my right hon. Friend has said. In fact, I carefully drafted this speech to avoid attacking Wolverhampton in any way, because I recognise that the reasons for this situation are...

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New Clause 45 - Publication of addresses of members etc in authority registers

25 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I strongly support this Bill and was proud to serve on the Committee. The Bill will deliver an enormous transfer of power out of this place and into our local communities. As a former councillor,...

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New Clause 43 - Charges payable by undertakers executing works in maintainable highways

24 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I am glad that those governance arrangements work, but they sound like a nightmare based on hearing that information. Would the hon. Member not agree again that under one unitary council, there...

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New Clause 43 - Charges payable by undertakers executing works in maintainable highways

24 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

I used to be a councillor in an authority that had area committees, and we ended up scrapping them because they were not really doing a good job. Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that mandating...

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New Clause 43 - Charges payable by undertakers executing works in maintainable highways

24 Nov 2025

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is speaking eloquently about the length of time people have been lobbying for this power. I felt that when I was a councillor. Does he agree that the right to request in this Bill...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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