Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Isle of Wight East
Status: Current member
Backbencher (MP)
Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Isle of Wight East
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-04-16
Activity total: 15
Contributions: 15
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
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
2026-04-16 · 18:33I echo the points made by the shadow Minister. The issue here is where sentences may go above three years. A sentence of three years or more is fairly significant. The crime, of c…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
2026-04-16 · 15:39Again, I invite a Tea Room conversation —although we may have to meet somewhere geographically in the middle of the Tea Room. Any measure that materially and detrimentally alters…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
2026-04-16 · 15:30Yes. Let us get back to principles here. I support what the Government are trying to do in reducing the backlog. Of course, that is the right thing to do, and it benefits both tho…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fourth sitting)
2026-04-14 · 17:03Once again, I agree with the shadow Minister. If the Government genuinely want to address the backlog, the answer lies in the other 179 recommendations that Sir Brian Leveson made…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fourth sitting)
2026-04-14 · 17:02I accept the Minister’s statement to the extent that it is a statement of fact of people’s evidence. To address the issue of taking cases out of one court to give to another, howe…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fourth sitting)
2026-04-14 · 16:59I agree with my hon. Friend. There is a slightly strange implication that while jury trials have become more complex over time, due to technology and techniques for examining evid…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fourth sitting)
2026-04-14 · 16:54I am not sure to what extent it is relevant, but I should probably declare that I used to be a practising solicitor, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and registere…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Third sitting)
2026-04-14 · 12:21It seems that the Minister has perhaps momentarily forgotten that the entire legal system in this country is tilted in favour of the defendant. The defendant is innocent until the…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Third sitting)
2026-04-14 · 11:36This is an extraordinary exchange. I accept that the hon. Member for Amber Valley is not the official voice of the CPS or of the Labour Government, but her sense of “officialdom k…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Third sitting)
2026-04-14 · 11:21If the situation the courts find themselves in is so obviously caused by the previous Government, why on earth is the hon. Member’s Government scrapping jury trials as a response?
Public Baths and Lidos
2026-03-25 · 18:12It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate the hon. Member for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) on securing this important debate. Across the United K…
Courts and Tribunals Bill (Second sitting)
2026-03-25 · 14:59But the Government want to remove that.