I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed as the Shadow Minister for Small Business, Enterprise and Postal Affairs in the Shadow Department for Business and Trade. This is an interim appointment whilst the party takes time to…
❗️ During the election campaign, I warned that Labour would put many of Norfolk’s new investment and infrastructure projects at risk. Potentially the plug on hundreds of millions of pounds of funding for our county.
This week, I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for Broadland and Fakenham. The hard work now resumes to deliver on our priorities for Norfolk - including expediting the delivery of the new hospitals, diagnostic centres, GPs and…
I am glad to hear that the contingency contained in the letter was not required. We can tell how tough this Government are being on crime and criminals by the very heavy population in our prison estate. The long-term solution is to build…
Fast internet connections are just as important in rural areas such as Broadland and Fakenham as they are in the rest of the country. I welcome the Government’s gigabit project. In Norfolk, it is rolling out 62,000 new connections and…
This afternoon, I asked the Minister of Defence Procurement about how we use the integrated procurement model to accelerate and encourage new technologies such as the radio wave drone killer.
Finally some good news on Nutrient Neutrality and fixing planning delays in Broadland. For the last 18 months there has been a block in planning permissions for buildings with toilets in them, since any additional flush could increase the…
Residents often write to me about delays in the courts. These delays, which prevent justice from being served in a timely fashion and delay families obtaining services such as probate, cause immense distress for families and I wrote to the…
The independent Committee On Climate Change recognises that we will need unabated gas in the electricity market right up until 2035 and beyond, and more widely that even in 2050, 25% of our energy needs will come from hydrocarbons. Does my…
Last month, fewer than half of red calls were answered by the ambulance service in Labour’s Wales within the necessary eight minutes. That is the Leader of the Opposition’s blueprint for government. Does my right hon. Friend agree that,…
It has been a truism across so many of today’s speeches that we have a universal desire for the violence to stop, and for it to stop immediately. The only question that exercises us in this Chamber today is, what is the most effective…
Residents have repeatedly contacted me about poor postal delivery to villages. In particular, some have identified instances whereby post has been stored up for days and then delivered en masse to homes.
✉️ I’ve written to the Leader of Broadland District Council to ask that she clarifies the position of her Cabinet Members in relation to the Western Link Road.
???? I was pleased to chair the AGM for the Financial Education for Young People. We discussed various updates in the financial education space, looking ahead to upcoming activity; heard from industry experts, and discussed the Education…
The dualling of the A47 at Blofield was fully funded and ready to go a year ago. Since then, a former Green party parliamentary candidate has bogged it down in a series of legal challenges. Once they have been overcome, will the Department…
Costs are rising for growing a business in Cambridge, yet Norwich, a finer city, is just down the road and, more importantly, just down the railway. We need a greater frequency of trains, and faster trains, to make the Norwich-Cambridge…
I am delighted to see today’s NHS Dental Recovery Plan, delivering both a short term boost in access to NHS dentists as well as long term changes to increase NHS dental provision.
It has been an absolutely fascinating debate, and I am grateful to Emily Thornberry for proposing this motion, because it has given us an opportunity to explore what responsible government really is. I will tell the House what it is not:…
We are no strangers to hyperbole in the Chamber, but I think the exaggeration of the importance of this Bill in the debate has surprised even Government Members. To hear Opposition Members, we would think that the Government have made a…
I should start my speech with a personal apology for not having been here for the full course of this debate. I very much wanted to be here, but I had duties in Westminster Hall in two debates during the course of the afternoon which…
Some dental practices are taking advantage of post-covid demand to take their NHS practices private, earning more money but leaving behind those most in need. I asked the Prime Minister what steps we can take to ensure dentists are asked…
I will start by looking at the foundation and principles of the Bill. It is worth remembering that it tries to do what our constituents want us to do. That is not a bad start for any Bill on Second Reading. I knock on doors week in, week…
I am grateful to the Opposition for calling this debate, because it spans the interests of every party, although apparently not the Liberal Democrats or the Scottish National party. For those who are taking part in this debate, keeping our…