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VOTING RECORD

  • 02 Jul 2025

    Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025

    Result:   Motion Passed

    385 Ayes
    26

    Voted in favour
  • 02 Jul 2025

    Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to insist on 2A and disagree with LA2B and LA2C

    Result:   Motion Passed

    321 Ayes
    158 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 02 Jul 2025

    Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2025

    Result:   Motion Passed

    333 Ayes
    168 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 02 Jul 2025

    Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025

    Result:   Motion Passed

    338 Ayes
    79

    Voted in favour
  • 01 Jul 2025

    Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Reasoned Amendment at Second Reading

    Result:   Motion Failed

    149 Ayes
    328 Noes

    Voted against
  • 20 Jun 2025

    Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading

    Result:   Motion Passed

    314 Ayes
    291 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 20 Jun 2025

    Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 94

    Result:   Motion Passed

    274 Ayes
    224 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill: Third Reading

    Result:   Motion Passed

    312 Ayes
    95

    Voted in favour
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 130

    Result:   Motion Failed

    178 Ayes
    313 Noes

    Voted against
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 121

    Result:   Motion Failed

    114
    310 Noes

    Voted against
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88

    Result:   Motion Failed

    178 Ayes
    313 Noes

    Voted against
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43

    Result:   Motion Failed

    147 Ayes
    305 Noes

    Voted against
  • 18 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7

    Result:   Motion Failed

    102
    390 Noes

    Voted against
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106

    Result:   Motion Failed

    117
    379 Noes

    Voted against
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1

    Result:   Motion Passed

    379 Ayes
    137 Noes

    Voted in favour
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 160

    Result:   Motion Failed

    89
    428 Noes

    Voted against
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19

    Result:   Motion Failed

    189 Ayes
    328 Noes

    Voted against
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 175

    Result:   Motion Failed

    184 Ayes
    336 Noes

    Voted against
  • 17 Jun 2025

    Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 174

    Result:   Motion Failed

    194 Ayes
    335 Noes

    Voted against
  • 11 Jun 2025

    Draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

    Result:   Motion Passed

    350 Ayes
    176 Noes

    Voted in favour

QUESTIONS

  • 24 Jun 2025
    Sanitary Products: Night Shelters
    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to provide free menstrual products to homelessness shelters.
    Response from Rushanara Ali MP (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
    The Government does not directly commission homelessness shelters or services. In 2025/26 the Government is investing £1 billion in homelessness services, an increase of £233 million on the previous year. Local authorities can use this funding to provide ... [Read More]
  • 23 Jun 2025
    Clinical Trials
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that publicly-funded medical trials (a) must be balanced by sex and (b) results must be sex-disaggregated.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    Medical trials, wherever possible, should always be balanced by sex, however, certain clinical trials are designed to investigate conditions that are only specific to one sex, so enforcing a balance would not make sense on those occasions.The Department c... [Read More]
  • 23 Jun 2025
    Artificial Intelligence: Gender
    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions with Artificial Intelligence developers to ensure they do not introduce gender bias in their algorithms.
    Response from Feryal Clark MP (Science, Innovation and Technology)
    It is crucial that AI systems are developed and deployed in a fair, inclusive and responsible way. That is why we have designated AI assurance as a key pillar of support for meeting the commitments made in government’s response to the AI Opportunities Act... [Read More]
  • 23 Jun 2025
    Cars: Sales
    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to ensure that (a) all cars sold in the UK must have had safety tests undertaken on them that include specifically-female crash dummies in both the driver and passenger seats and
    Response from Lilian Greenwood MP (Transport)
    The latest international vehicle regulations covering frontal impact protection developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) currently use a crash test dummy representative of a female occupant in the front passenger seat. The... [Read More]
  • 19 Jun 2025
    Asbestos: Ovarian Cancer
    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will require the Health and Safety Executive to collect data on asbestos-related ovarian cancer cases.
    Response from Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP (Work and Pensions)
    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for collection of data of workplace injury and illness. Under Regulation 9 of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR), it requires the responsible person ... [Read More]
  • 11 Jun 2025
    Pharmacy: Degrees
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to add pharmacy to the list of degree courses that will be funded if an applicant already has a degree.
    Response from Janet Daby MP (Education)
    Under the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, additional entitlement may be available for priority subjects or longer courses in addition to an individual’s core 4-year entitlement. Details of these additional entitlements will be announced in due course.
  • 10 Jun 2025
    Sign Language: GCSE
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress her Department has made on the implementation of a GCSE in British Sign Language.
    Response from Catherine McKinnell MP (Education)
    The new British Sign Language (BSL) GCSE is a key feature of our commitment to enhancing the status of BSL in education and society.The department published subject content for the BSL GCSE in December 2023.As is the usual process for introducing a qualif... [Read More]
  • 03 Jun 2025
    Nitrous Oxide: Sales
    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to introduce traceable labels on nitrous oxide canisters to identify the point of sale.
    Response from Mary Creagh MP (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
    I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given by the Home Office on 9 May 2025 to PQ 49048.
  • 02 Jun 2025
    Heat Pumps
    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to help make it easier for (a) tenants and (b) leaseholders to install heat pumps.
    Response from Miatta Fahnbulleh MP (Energy Security and Net Zero)
    The Warm Homes Plan will help upgrade homes across the country, including those occupied by tenants and leaseholders, by making them cleaner and cheaper to run, from installing new insulation to rolling out solar and heat pumps. The Government is helping ... [Read More]
  • 30 May 2025
    Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with (a) Adoption UK and (b) other representative organisations to discuss the adoption and special guardianship support fund.
    Response from Janet Daby MP (Education)
    In my role as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, I have recently met with Adoption UK and other representative organisations to discuss the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) and other issues during the a... [Read More]
  • 30 May 2025
    Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making the adoption and special guardianship support fund permanent.
    Response from Janet Daby MP (Education)
    I refer my hon. Friend, the member for Warrington North, to my written statement of 22 April 2025, which is available here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-04-22/hcws589.
  • 22 May 2025
    Law Reporting
    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average price quoted was for court transcripts for victims in each of the last five years.
    Response from Sarah Sackman MP (Justice)
    Management information held about transcript requests is limited, and the information requested is not held centrally.Victims usually request the judge’s sentencing remarks, which summarise the case against the defendant made at trial, the impact on victi... [Read More]
  • 22 May 2025
    Law Reporting
    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress her Department is making on reducing the (a) cost and (b) time to taken to produce court transcripts for victims who request them.
    Response from Sarah Sackman MP (Justice)
    Bereaved families of victims of murder, manslaughter and fatal road offences can request a free transcript of the judge’s sentencing remarks. On 22 May we announced that, following the conclusion of a one-year pilot at the end of May, we are continuing th... [Read More]
  • 22 May 2025
    Law Reporting
    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much income her Department has received from the sale of court transcripts to victims in each of the last five years.
    Response from Sarah Sackman MP (Justice)
    HM Courts and Tribunals Service receives no income from the sale of court transcripts to victims. The service is provided under contract and suppliers provide court transcripts for a fee.
  • 29 Apr 2025
    Nitrous Oxide: Misuse
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce traceable labels on nitrous oxide canisters to allow the authorities to know the point of sale.
    Response from Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson MP (Home Office)
    With apologies for the previous answer, nitrous oxide is controlled as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and it is an offence to produce, supply, offer to supply, possess, possess with intent to supply, import and export nitrous oxide, wh... [Read More]
  • 13 May 2025
    Nitrous Oxide: Sales
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require the introduction of traceable labels on nitrous oxide canisters to track the point of sale.
    Response from Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson MP (Home Office)
    I refer the Hon Member to the updated response issued to PQ 49048.
  • 08 Apr 2025
    HIV Infection: Developing Countries
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Lancet entitled Impact of an international HIV funding crisis on H
    Response from Stephen Doughty MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    The UK takes note of the current context for international HIV funding. We remain committed to our long-standing support to global health organisations at the core of the response to HIV and AIDS, and we continue to support efforts to end AIDS as a public... [Read More]
  • 07 Apr 2025
    HIV Infection: Preventive Medicine
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to support the scale up of the provision of long-acting HIV prevention medicines now entering the market.
    Response from Stephen Doughty MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    The UK remains committed to sustainable development goal 3.3 in ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030. Long-acting technologies have the potential to be game-changers in the global response to HIV, but only if they reach the countries and communiti... [Read More]
  • 08 Apr 2025
    Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to encourage (a) the private sector and (b) other donors to increase funding for global HIV prevention and treatment.
    Response from Stephen Doughty MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    As the co-host with South Africa of the 8th replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the UK is actively engaging with both international counterparts and private sector partners to advocate for maintaining or increasing fu... [Read More]
  • 07 Apr 2025
    Africa: Overseas Aid
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to take steps to help tackle the potential impact of aid cuts on (a) South Africa, (b) Kenya, (c) Nigeria and (d) other countries of strategic im
    Response from Mr Hamish Falconer MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    The Government remains fully committed to the UK playing a globally significant role on development; it is both in our national interest and in the interest of our partners.The Prime Minister has set out a new strategic vision for government spending on d... [Read More]

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