Brian Mathew

I thank the Prime Minister for his comments on Lebanon. We are seeing an Israeli military playbook from Gaza—collective punishment, forced displacement and attacks on health—being…

Yesterday, I and my colleagues on the International Development Committee met staff from Action Against Hunger, who had just returned from Lebanon, to hear about the horrors they…

I and many others in my constituency of Melksham and Devizes, and no doubt across England, welcome the new animal welfare strategy for England, particularly the banning of snares,…

I thank the hon. Member for South Shropshire (Stuart Anderson) for this debate. One particularly frustrating problem is the way in which roadworks are planned and co-ordinated, es…

I thank the right hon. Member for his comments; in fact, I will go into some details on that now. Members from all parties will recognise that rural fire services face different c…

I thank the hon. Member for those points; he made them well, and I take them on. We should all think of what happened in Glasgow at the weekend. Family members of firefighters fro…

I am grateful for the opportunity to open this debate on fire station closures. I would like to begin by paying tribute to the bravery of firefighters across the country.

I have to declare an interest. before coming to this place, I had a 30-year career as an aid worker, working in WASH: bringing water, sanitation and hygiene to some of the poorest…

Have the Government considered issuing defence bonds, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats, to ringfence capital for defence spending? If not, why not?

The Government’s changes to employer national insurance contributions have made it more expensive for employers to take on staff, particularly in the hospitality sector, which emp…

18. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the autumn Budget 2025 on levels of youth unemployment.

2. What progress she has made on banning snare traps.