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I was honoured to have the opportunity to put a question to the Deputy Prime Minister at PMQs today. With Christmas drawing ever closer, I decided to highlight the dangers of unregulated children’s toys being sold on online marketplaces and asked what steps the Government are taking to ensure toys sold are safe and age […]

Another busy day in Parliament yesterday, and I was delighted to have had the opportunity to speak on a broad range of issues. First we had oral questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. I pressed the Minister on the difficulties the steel industry has in decarbonising, as it faces […]

Yesterday was a very busy day in Westminster, and I was delighted to have had the chance to speak in the Chamber on a number of issues. We started with Defence questions, where I pressed the Government to extend Operation Warm Welcome to Afghans still stuck in the asylum system, as the Scottish Refugee Council […]

Yesterday I was grateful for the opportunity to put a question to the Leader of the House of Commons, at the weekly Business Questions. I highlighted a recent case in my constituency where two children had eaten a bag of drug-laced sweets, inadvertently mistaking them for normal ones. I asked the Leader to schedule a […]

Yesterday I was honoured to speak in the Westminster Hall debate on reducing fire risk in high-rise social housing. It was important to me that the human cost of Grenfell and vulnerable social housing tenants were at the forefront of the debate, and it was this point I sought to really highlight in my speech. […]

Yesterday I was grateful to be able press the UK Government on urgent policy decisions. The Secretary of State for Transport answered an Urgent Question on the current HGV driver shortages and his department’s plans to address them. I used this opportunity to ask him what steps his department is taking to make HGV jobs […]