Parliamentary Activity

Workplace Pensions: Lump Sum Payments

23 Apr 2026

Treasury

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

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to changes to the inheritance tax treatment of pension pots whether it is her policy that a) the total estate will be taken to include the...

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Workplace Pensions: Lump Sum Payments

23 Apr 2026

Treasury

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

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of amending the definition of a charitable lump sum death benefit so that people with...

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Public Sector: Workplace Pensions

23 Apr 2026

Treasury

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

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to examine how AI could speed up the issuance of Remedial Service Statements to people in receipt of public sector...

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After Clause 26 - Power to require internet service providers to restrict or prevent access by children to internet services

22 Apr 2026

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is citing some shocking evidence, and I will be sure to listen to the Committee session later. On her comments about Meta not believing that its platforms are addictive, does she...

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After Clause 26 - Power to require internet service providers to restrict or prevent access by children to internet services

22 Apr 2026

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

Does the right hon. Lady not recognise that action and a ban will not necessarily be the same thing? This is a really nuanced policy area. Quite recently, there was a huge online joint letter...

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Knife Crime

14 Apr 2026

Commons debates

On Sunday, there was a horrific attack in my constituency; a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in Orton. My thoughts—and those of the House, I am sure—are with his family. I welcome...

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Planning Permission: Enforcement

01 Apr 2026

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the cases currently under consideration by the Planning Inspectorate are appeals against...

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Nuclear Test Veterans

25 Mar 2026

Commons debates

Would my hon. Friend join me in commemorating the life and legacy of Alan Dowson? Until very recently, he was a councillor in my constituency. He was first elected in 1971, and served as a Labour...

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Defence

24 Mar 2026

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman has just made a point about the concentration of defence investment in the south-east. Can he remind us where Trident is based?

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Defence

24 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I am not 100% sure what point the hon. Gentleman is trying to make, but he has put it on the record. There is a huge amount of drone activity going on, and a lot of ways in which that needs to be...

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Defence

24 Mar 2026

Commons debates

What I am very happy to say about defence spending is that when we last hit 2.5%, it was under a Labour Government. The right hon. Gentleman’s party failed to do so throughout their time in...

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Defence

24 Mar 2026

Commons debates

The shadow Secretary of State says, “Under successive Governments”—that includes his own, for 14 years. It is not often that I agree with Ministers from the last Government, but...

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Defence

24 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I, too, will start by agreeing with a member of the Opposition, specifically the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. He was quoted as saying that under his own party, our armed forces had been...

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Mohamed Abidisamad

13 Mar 2026

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the Mohamed Abidisamad: Prevention of Future Deaths report.

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Topical Questions

10 Mar 2026

Treasury

Sam Carling made a speech in the House of Commons

Young people in North West Cambridgeshire and across the country are struggling to access mortgages and get on to the housing ladder due to thin credit files. Will the Minister explore requiring...

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Social Cohesion Action Plan

09 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I have long been arguing that we need an overhaul of charity regulation to tackle rogue operators who are exploiting charity status to peddle extremism and hate, so I am thrilled that the...

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Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU

03 Mar 2026

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has sought equivalent provisions in the UK-EU SPS Agreement negotiations to the animal welfare carve-out...

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Small Religious Organisations: Safeguarding

02 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I agree completely with my hon. Friend. In the debate in the House of Lords earlier today, Baroness Grey-Thompson gave a good example from when she was a younger athlete of sports coaches’...

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Small Religious Organisations: Safeguarding

02 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, who I know has done a lot of work on this matter, in particular on making sure that the seal of confession is not exempted from mandatory reporting. I very...

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Small Religious Organisations: Safeguarding

02 Mar 2026

Commons debates

I am really grateful for that contribution from my hon. Friend, and I absolutely agree with her. It is really important that we listen to IICSA, which spent many years on this, and deliver what...

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