Helen Whately

Helen Whately

Con

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

CommonsFaversham and Mid KentCurrent Member

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House: Commons

Constituency: Faversham and Mid Kent

Status: Current member

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Sitting day: 2026-03-25

Activity total: 0

Contributions: 0

Votes recorded: 0

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Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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Pension Schemes Bill

2026-04-15 · 15:10

Who knew that the Pension Schemes Bill would become so controversial? It is a Bill on which there was so much consensus; a Bill begun by one party in government and now being cont…

Meningitis Outbreak

2026-03-17 · 13:09

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and for his communications with me. Juliette was a schoolgirl in year 13 at Queen Elizabeth grammar school in my constituency. Sh…

Youth Unemployment

2026-03-17 · 11:30

The Government have lost control of welfare. The benefits bill is ballooning. Sickness benefits alone will cost us £109 billion by the end of the decade. Working-age benefits are…

Topical Questions

2026-03-09 · 15:25

Given that the savings of millions of people are at stake, I am disappointed that the Secretary of State did not rise to answer this important question. The Pensions Minister need…

Topical Questions

2026-03-09 · 15:20

Madam Deputy Speaker, you are no doubt familiar with the dramatic principle of Chekhov’s gun: if there is a gun on the wall in the first act, it will be fired by the final scene.…

Universal Credit: Foreign Nationals

2026-03-09 · 14:48

The working-age benefits bill is set to reach £171 billion by the end of this Parliament, yet the Government are doing nothing to get it under control. In fact, by scrapping the t…

Pension Schemes Bill

2026-04-15

My hon. Friend is exactly right. Sometimes the Pensions Minister talks about this all as being technicalities, but the fact is that the Government are coming after people’s hard-e…