Caroline Nokes MP: speeches 2025

Speeches

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  Before I call the Secretary of State, may I entreat the hon. Member? I am sure he will have mentioned to the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) that he was going to reference him in the House.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  May I confirm with the hon. Member that he has informed the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage)?

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  Order. The hon. Lady will know that we do not refer to other hon. Members by name but by their constituency.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Electoral Resilience · Hansard source

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  I think you will find that you used the term “the hon. Member for Clacton”, if you wish to argue back with the Chair.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Planning Reform · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Planning Reform · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Minister.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Planning Reform · Hansard source

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  Order. I have a little aspiration that we will finish this statement by half-past 3, so short questions and short answers would be very helpful.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Planning Reform · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Finance (No. 2) Bill · Hansard source

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  The reasoned amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition has been selected.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Finance (No. 2) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. The hon. Lady’s intervention is far too long.

• 16 Dec 2025 · Finance (No. 2) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. I encourage the remaining speakers to focus on the fact this is a Finance Bill, and therefore the debate is about taxation measures, not spending.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Jimmy Lai Conviction · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Jimmy Lai Conviction · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Foreign Secretary.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Jimmy Lai Conviction · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. We are not having a debate on hereditary Members of the House of Lords. We are debating the Lords message on amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  Members will be aware that the debate has to conclude by 8.24 pm, so there will be an immediate five-minute time limit. Of course, if Members did not feel obliged to use all five minutes, that would help their colleagues.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. We are not debating hereditary peers; we are debating the amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Member for her advice. As it happens, she makes a good point. The hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) should not be suggesting any particular motive attributed to that issue, and could he perhaps confine his remaining comments for the next 90 seconds?

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. I call the Minister.

• 15 Dec 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source

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  Before we commence consideration of the Lords message, I confirm that nothing in the Lords message engages Commons financial privilege. Clause 23 Right not to be unfairly dismissed: removal of qualifying period, etc

• 15 Dec 2025 · Point of Order · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Lady for giving notice of her point of order. I understand that she has notified the hon. Member for Clacton in advance. She will know that this is not a matter for the Chair, but her point has been well and truly put on the record.