Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Stoke-on-Trent Central
Status: Current member
Backbencher (MP)
Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Stoke-on-Trent Central
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-04-16
Activity total: 2
Contributions: 2
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
No current post data is attached to this profile.
Recent Votes
Recent recorded divisions
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6
Commons - 2026-03-25T16:00:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:48:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:37:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:26:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:15:00+00:00
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:01:00+00:00
Opposition Day Motion: Defence
Commons - 2026-03-24T19:01:00+00:00
Opposition Day Motion: Oil and Gas
Commons - 2026-03-24T16:00:00+00:00
Recent Participation
Recent speeches in the feed
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
2026-04-16 · 13:07Let us start with the positives. I am glad that there is now some form of recognition that there is an industrial energy crisis, and that the Secretary of State has brought forwar…
Business of the House
2026-04-16 · 10:30On 28 April, it will be Staffordshire Day across the Houses of Parliament. There will be a marketplace in the Jubilee Room from 12 pm till 2 pm, and there will be Staffordshire oa…
Draft Energy Prices Act 2022 (Extension of Time Limit) Regulations 2026
2026-04-14 · 10:36That is a nice introduction, Ms Vaz, and it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I have no issue in principle with the regulations, which extend the powers of the Secre…
Southport Inquiry
2026-04-13 · 19:09As the Home Secretary will be aware, there are 28 Prevent priority areas across the country—there used to be 40, and Stoke-on-Trent was one of them until 2023, when the last Gover…
Fuel Duty
2026-03-18 · 13:26The Minister rightly talks about household budgets, but the other impact, particularly of the gas price, is industrial energy costs in this country, not least for the ceramics sec…
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2026-03-11 · 17:45I am glad about the Minister’s meetings, but while he is at the Dispatch Box, will he give an assurance that there are no future surprises and no significant tax-change announceme…
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2026-03-11 · 16:27That is an incredibly fair question. The Treasury has been unable to give me an answer, but I hope that the Minister will be able to when he sums up the debate. Regardless of one’…
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2026-03-11 · 16:17I will speak to the two new clauses that stand solely in my name, which relate to the impact of the changes to the remote gaming and remote betting duties. I do not intend to reli…
Department for Business and Trade
2026-03-04 · 18:14I congratulate the right hon. Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne) on securing this debate. I want to touch on three areas of Department for Business a…
Small Charity Sector
2026-03-03 · 15:51One thing that might help is if there was a settled model for how small charities could quantify volunteer hours to use as a bank against matched funding. Some charities in my pat…
Small Charity Sector
2026-03-03 · 15:04It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) on securing this debate…
Social Cohesion Action Plan
2026-03-09I welcome the community cohesion strategy, which the Labour group of Hope not Hate, which I chair, has been calling for. The Secretary of State will know that the other side of th…