Emma Lewell MP: speeches

Speeches

• 11 Nov 2024 · Child Poverty · Hansard source

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  16. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of child poverty.

• 11 Nov 2024 · Child Poverty · Hansard source

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  We know that the previous Government presided over shameful levels of child poverty, including nearly 500,000 children who are eligible for free school meals but who are missing out. Will my hon. Friend, alongside the Education Secretary, urgently look at the proposal by Feeding Britain for auto-enrolment to free school meals as part of the single application process for families claiming UC?

• 24 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

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  T3. Will the duty of candour in the Hillsborough law apply to the 70-year-long nuclear test veterans scandal?

• 22 Oct 2024 · Ukraine · Hansard source

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  When this Government said that our support for Ukraine was absolute, we meant it. My right hon. Friend referred to the recently signed defence export treaty between the UK and Ukraine, which will support Ukraine’s defence industrial base while helping to replenish our own stockpiles. As far as he is able, will he update the House on the treaty’s progress?

• 14 Oct 2024 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  The SDR is welcome and needed. The previous Conservative Government left our armed forces personnel, capabilities and funding depleted. Can the Secretary of State— [ Interruption. ] Hang fire. Can the Secretary of State assure me that the experts conducting our review will have an ongoing focus on our sovereign defence industrial base, and ensure that regions such as the north-east are pivotal in that?

• 10 Oct 2024 · Local Bus Services · Hansard source

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  17. What steps she is taking to help improve local bus services.

• 10 Oct 2024 · Local Bus Services · Hansard source

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  My right hon. Friend knows that when the previous Government axed over 1,000 bus routes, local communities were completely ignored. As she rebuilds our bus network, can she assure me that the better buses Bill will make provision to fully include local voices, not just the voices of those in elected positions?

• 25 Jul 2024 · Business of the House · Hansard source

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  Many of us enjoyed watching the Euros in our local pubs, whose licensing hours were only just extended before this House rose for the general election. My private Member’s Bill would have ensured that extensions for events of national importance would no longer be dependent on Parliament sitting. That Bill passed through this place with zero objections, but failed to make the wash-up. I know that my right hon. Friend likes sport and a good pint, so will she make time for my Bill to become law?

• 24 Jul 2024 · Engagements · Hansard source

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  Q5. For decades, my constituent Jack Taylor has been continuously ignored by previous Governments. He and other nuclear veterans have been denied access to their medical records and compensation. The Prime Minister has rightly said that these national heroes deserve full accountability and justice. Will he therefore consider supporting a special tribunal with statutory powers on this 70-year-long scandal?