Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Sevenoaks
Status: Current member
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Sevenoaks
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-03-18
Activity total: 11
Contributions: 11
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Parliamentary post
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
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:39I just told you!
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:32Exactly. The Chancellor gave it all away when she said that young people are at the back of the queue—that tells us all that we need to know about this Government. The Government…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:32As ever, the hon. Gentleman raises a very interesting point, and I look forward to his bringing it up with the Chancellor at questions.
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:31I am glad that the hon. Gentleman raises that point. I totally agree with him that it is something that needs to be looked into and fixed. As I have mentioned, we know that 10 tim…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:29I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was listening when I covered that point. The whole point is that those degrees do not lead to jobs in the creative arts industry. It is a…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:27My hon. Friend is spot on. It is not well known that apprenticeship degrees are more oversubscribed than Oxford and Cambridge. These are things that young people want to do, and t…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:26It seems like the hon. Gentleman was at university only yesterday. If we are asking young people to take on a mountain of debt, it is important for them to know that they will get…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:25My hon. Friend is, as ever, absolutely right. Opportunity should be created for young people here, not in other countries, and that is what we want to create.
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:24My right hon. Friend is absolutely right: there is nothing progressive about letting a young person take a university degree that has negative returns for them. That is not fair o…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:18The hon. Gentleman is missing the fact that Labour has made it worse. Even now, the Chancellor has changed her tune—no surprise given the track record of this Government. She now…
Student Loans
2026-03-18 · 16:59I beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to set the interest rate on Plan 2 student loans at a level which ensures that balances will never rise faster than RPI infl…
Student Loans
2026-03-18I will not. When the hon. Gentleman tried to intervene on me recently, he accused me of jumping on a bandwagon about rape gangs, so he will forgive me for not taking another inter…