Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Birmingham Erdington
Status: Current member
Backbencher (MP)
Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Birmingham Erdington
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-04-16
Activity total: 4
Contributions: 4
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
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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
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
2026-04-16 · 17:04I am no expert, but I find this argument fascinating. What would it take to make the shadow Minister believe what the Minister is saying? I do not understand this subject, except…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)
2026-04-16 · 13:02I thank the shadow Minister; I am listening to what he is saying and I am finding it really interesting. But let us not forget that, until 2019, we had a backlog of something like…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Third sitting)
2026-04-14 · 12:10The Minister is making some important points, but I must bring her back to what she said about the fairness of jury trials, and about people feeling that they are fair. At the mom…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Second sitting)
2026-03-25 · 17:06Q Good afternoon, Doug. I have a really quick question. I am just going to be brutally honest. I am a woman of colour—a black woman. Within our communities in the UK, there is a f…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (First sitting)
2026-03-25 · 10:15Thank you. You have explained that perfectly.
Courts and Tribunals Bill (First sitting)
2026-03-25 · 10:15Q Good morning, all. I want to ask a quick question to the former Victims’ Commissioner. Vera, based on your many years of experience as Victims’ Commissioner and working alongsid…
Courts and Tribunals Bill
2026-03-10 · 17:38I agree absolutely. Unless we work together to sort this out, we will not get a decent Bill that everybody can be happy with. To just throw it out at this stage would serve no pur…
Courts and Tribunals Bill
2026-03-10 · 17:36I absolutely agree. That does back up what I am saying. I am not suggesting that our judiciary is biased, but perception matters, so I ask the Minister for two specific assurances…
Courts and Tribunals Bill
2026-03-10 · 17:35I thank my hon. Friend for that contribution. For ethnic minority communities, that right has been seen as a vital protection against fear of bias, whether conscious or unconsciou…
Courts and Tribunals Bill
2026-03-10 · 17:35I rise to speak on a Bill that is both necessary and difficult. Let me start by saying that I support its intention to tackle a Crown court backlog that has more than doubled sinc…
Palliative Care
2026-03-05 · 15:49I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell), who I love dearly, for leading this important debate. Palliative care is about dignity. I saw the value of th…
Palliative Care
2026-03-05 · 15:47I am sure that every Member in the Chamber has a local hospice that they really appreciate and cannot do without. I thank my hon. Friend for giving his local hospice a shout-out.…