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VOTING RECORD

  • 15 Oct 2025

    Sustainable Aviation Fuel Remaining Stages: Amendment 9

    Result:   Motion Failed

    160 Ayes
    324 Noes

    Voted against
  • 15 Oct 2025

    Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 8

    Result:   Motion Failed

    151 Ayes
    319 Noes

    Voted against
  • 15 Oct 2025

    Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 5

    Result:   Motion Failed

    78
    316 Noes

    Voted against
  • 14 Oct 2025

    Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 41

    Result:   Motion Failed

    164 Ayes
    333 Noes

    Voted against
  • 14 Oct 2025

    Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 40

    Result:   Motion Failed

    163 Ayes
    339 Noes

    Voted against
  • 14 Oct 2025

    Mental Health Bill Report Stage New Clause 26

    Result:   Motion Failed

    78
    327 Noes

    Voted against
  • 10 Sep 2025

    Bus Services (No.2) Bill: Third Reading

    Result:   Motion Passed

    362 Ayes
    87

    Voted in favour
  • 10 Sep 2025

    Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 10

    Result:   Motion Failed

    153 Ayes
    300 Noes

    Voted against
  • 10 Sep 2025

    Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 23

    Result:   Motion Failed

    158 Ayes
    297 Noes

    Voted against
  • 10 Sep 2025

    Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 58

    Result:   Motion Failed

    92
    364 Noes

    Voted against
  • 10 Sep 2025

    Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2

    Result:   Motion Failed

    69
    300 Noes

    Voted against
  • 09 Sep 2025

    Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Second Reading

    Result:   Motion Passed

    330 Ayes
    179 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 09 Sep 2025

    Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Reasoned Amendment

    Result:   Motion Failed

    116
    333 Noes

    Voted against
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 64

    Result:   Motion Passed

    335 Ayes
    160 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 53

    Result:   Motion Passed

    401 Ayes
    96

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 39

    Result:   Motion Passed

    325 Ayes
    171 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 26

    Result:   Motion Passed

    404 Ayes
    98

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 19

    Result:   Motion Passed

    336 Ayes
    158 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 18

    Result:   Motion Passed

    402 Ayes
    97

    Voted in favour
  • 08 Sep 2025

    Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11

    Result:   Motion Passed

    398 Ayes
    93

    Voted in favour

QUESTIONS

  • 10 Sep 2025
    Employment: Advisory Services
    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of the creation of a national advice workforce development fund.
    Response from Andrew Western MP (Work and Pensions)
    Skills England will identify and address skills gaps across all sectors. It works with employers, training providers, and local authorities to ensure the skills system reflects real-world workforce needs, both nationally and locally.Through 16-19 funding,... [Read More]
  • 10 Sep 2025
    Digital Technology: Disadvantaged
    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to (a) tackle digital exclusion and (b) ensure that people who are digitally excluded have access to (i) advice and (ii) online services.
    Response from Rt Hon Ian Murray MP (Science, Innovation and Technology)
    The Digital Inclusion Action Plan sets out the first five actions we are taking over the next year to boost digital inclusion in every corner of the UK. These first actions will widen access to devices, drive digital upskilling, break down barriers to par... [Read More]
  • 10 Sep 2025
    Social Security Benefits: Advisory Services
    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of welfare reforms on demand for independent advice services; and if he will make a statement.
    Response from Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP (Work and Pensions)
    The public consultation on the “Pathways to Work” Green Paper received over 47,500 responses before closing on the 30 June. We are now carefully reviewing responses as we develop further proposals, involving disabled people, including through the Timms re... [Read More]
  • 10 Sep 2025
    Social Security Benefits: Advisory Services
    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to establish a sustainable funding model for social welfare advice services.
    Response from Rt Hon James Murray MP (Treasury)
    The Government recognises the important role that social welfare advice services play in supporting individuals. For example, DWP provide grant funding to Citizens Advice, who deliver Help to Claim support for customers to apply for Universal Credit. In ... [Read More]
  • 10 Sep 2025
    Debts: Advisory Services
    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to improve access to free debt advice; and if she will make a statement.
    Response from Lucy Rigby KC MP (Treasury)
    The Government is committed to ensuring that people in financial difficulty have access to free, impartial debt advice. Through the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), the Government funds a range of national and community-based services to support individ... [Read More]
  • 29 Aug 2025
    Empty Property
    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to encourage empty homes to become occupied.
    Response from Matthew Pennycook MP (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
    I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 59458 on 20 June 2025.
  • 04 Sep 2025
    Ukraine: GCSE
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding Ukrainian language GCSE to the curriculum.
    Response from Georgia Gould MP (Education)
    Decisions about which languages to offer at GCSE in England are taken by four independent awarding organisations, AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel and WJEC, rather than by central government. These organisations have the freedom to create a Ukrainian GCSE based ... [Read More]
  • 04 Sep 2025
    Kava-Kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002, what provision exists for the revocation of this legislation should the evidence no longer support such controls.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002 prohibits any food consisting of or containing kava-kava from being imported or placed on the market. This regulation is in place to protect public health. Since the introduction of this legislation, any ad... [Read More]
  • 04 Sep 2025
    Kava-Kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of new research into the hepatotoxicity risk posed by kava on The Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002 prohibits any food consisting of or containing kava-kava from being imported or placed on the market. This regulation is in place to protect public health. Since the introduction of this legislation, any ad... [Read More]
  • 04 Sep 2025
    Kava-Kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of controls on the (a) sale and (b) import of kava for food purposes in The Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Kava-kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002 prohibits any food consisting of or containing kava-kava from being imported or placed on the market. This regulation is in place to protect public health. Since the introduction of this legislation, any ad... [Read More]
  • 21 Jul 2025
    Opioids: Health Education
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of local Combating Drugs Partnerships in raising awareness of (a) synthetic opioids and (b) how to respond when witnessing an opioid overdose; and w
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued planning guidance for local areas to help them respond to incidents caused by potent synthetic opioids. The guidance enables local partners to rapidly understand the scale of the synthetic opioid ... [Read More]
  • 21 Jul 2025
    Opioids: Health Education
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to raise awareness among (a) people sleeping rough, (b) socially isolated people and (c) other at-risk populations on the dangers of synthetic opioids since 2024.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued planning guidance for local areas to help them respond to incidents caused by potent synthetic opioids. The guidance enables local partners to rapidly understand the scale of the synthetic opioid ... [Read More]
  • 21 Jul 2025
    Opioids
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to integrate synthetic opioid awareness into local authorities’ Drug Strategies since 5 July 2025; and how much of the 2025/26 targeted drug, alcohol treatment and recovery
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued planning guidance for local areas to help them respond to incidents caused by potent synthetic opioids. The guidance enables local partners to rapidly understand the scale of the synthetic opioid ... [Read More]
  • 29 Aug 2025
    Cultural Heritage: Tax Allowances
    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will remove the tax-exempt heritage assets scheme from landowners.
    Response from Dan Tomlinson MP (Treasury)
    The conditional exemption tax incentive scheme was introduced to preserve and protect the national heritage for the benefit of the public. The Government keeps all tax policy under review, and any changes are set out at fiscal events.
  • 22 Jul 2025
    Public Footpaths: Rural Areas
    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has allocated funding to (a) local authorities and (b) other responsible organisations to (i) maintain and (ii) improve rural walking paths.
    Response from Mary Creagh MP (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
    The Government recognises the vital role that public rights of way play in promoting access to nature, encouraging active travel, and supporting community wellbeing. Responsibility for managing and maintaining these routes lies with local highway authorit... [Read More]
  • 18 Jul 2025
    Drugs: Misuse
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the potential impact of (a) diamorphine assisted therapy, (b) safe consumption rooms and (c) other drug harm reduction services on the level of ambulance ca
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    Harm reduction measures are vital and can have an impact on preventing overdoses, reducing the spread of infections, and engaging people into drug treatment. However, most of these outcomes would not be seen in ambulance data. The Department does not coll... [Read More]
  • 10 Jun 2025
    Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme were successful at (a) first application and (b) appeal since 2020.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    Between 1 January 2020 and 6 June 2025, data from the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the scheme, shows that 205 claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme were successful at a first application. This equates to 1.5% of the claims ... [Read More]
  • 15 Jul 2025
    Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how she plans to roll out at-home electric vehicle charging points for people in terrace housing with no off-street parking.
    Response from Lilian Greenwood MP (Transport)
    The Department is working with local authorities to encourage the use of cross-pavement solutions and on the 13 July, announced the £25m Electric Vehicle Pavement Channel grant to further support local authorities in England to adopt pavement channels. Th... [Read More]
  • 10 Jul 2025
    Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of applications to the vaccine damage payment scheme since 2020 have been successful on appeal,by vaccine type.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    Data from the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), shows that 22,408 VDPS claims were received between 1 November 2021 and 4 July 2025. 1.1% of these have been successful, with a further 0.1% hav... [Read More]
  • 10 Jul 2025
    Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of applications to the vaccine damage payment scheme since 2020 have been successful, by vaccine type.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    Data from the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), shows that 22,408 VDPS claims were received between 1 November 2021 and 4 July 2025. 1.1% of these have been successful, with a further 0.1% hav... [Read More]

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