Emma Lewell MP: speeches

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13 Jan 2025 · Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defence · Hansard source
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The hon. Member is right to raise that point, as we very much took note of the noble Lords’ report, which is referenced in our inquiry’s final report. We urge progress on AI in defence, but on the understanding that the progress is always in line with a strong ethical and accountable framework, and that there is a human in the loop.
13 Jan 2025 · Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defence · Hansard source
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I could not agree with the hon. Member more. A section in our report addresses in detail SMEs and their engagement with the Department, and we should carry forward the work that he did in government, especially on the integrated procurement model.
13 Jan 2025 · Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defence · Hansard source
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The hon. Member asks me for answers that are outside the scope of our report. She also asks questions of the Government; I am speaking on behalf of our Committee, and it is way above my pay grade to answer for our Government. However, she raises an important point about the Lords report. I believe that the previous Government responded to the report from the Lords, but as with everything in defence, what we do will be in line with what our allies and NATO do. We will continue to work with our allies on the global combat air programme and the AUKUS partnership. Everything we do, we do together, not in isolation.
13 Jan 2025 · Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defence · Hansard source
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I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Today’s announcement from the Government has shown that they are taking AI and its potential very seriously. As our report shows, there are steps that they can take when it comes to defence to ensure that the Department is more AI native and has AI running through it.
9 Jan 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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In South Shields, not only is our public transport expensive, we have to suffer constant metro delays, tunnel closures and replacement bus breakdowns. This Christmas, our roads were completely cut off. Will my right hon. Friend please meet me to discuss these long-standing ongoing issues?
9 Jan 2025 · Business of the House · Hansard source
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My right hon. Friend will know that throughout the pandemic, the Conservative Government excluded nearly 4 million self-employed and other workers from financial support. Lives were lost and livelihoods ruined, and many of those workers remain struggling. Will my right hon. Friend please make time for a debate, so that we can yet again look to right the wrongs of the previous Government?
8 Jan 2025 · Playgrounds · Hansard source
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Order. I remind hon. Members that they should bob if they wish to be called to speak. I will call the first Front Bencher at about 5.10 pm.
8 Jan 2025 · Playgrounds · Hansard source
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Order. I must now impose a four-minute limit. I call Leigh Ingham.
8 Jan 2025 · Playgrounds · Hansard source
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Order. I now need to put a three-minute time limit on Back-Bench speeches.
8 Jan 2025 · Scotland: Transport Links · Hansard source
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Order.
8 Jan 2025 · Scotland: Transport Links · Hansard source
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Order. To ensure that all hon. Members get in and we have the Front-Bench contributions, we are going to need to impose a three-minute time limit.
8 Jan 2025 · Scotland: Transport Links · Hansard source
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Before I call the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) to wind up, I thank all hon. and right hon. Members for their kind words. It is indeed a pleasure to be in the Chair.
8 Jan 2025 · Scotland: Transport Links · Hansard source
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Order. As hon. Members can see, lots of Members want to speak in this debate. Could you please stick to an informal four-minute time limit, so that everybody gets in?
19 Dec 2024 · Harland & Wolff · Hansard source
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Today’s news is welcome. My right hon. Friend knows how vital the FSS ships are to our Royal Navy. RFA Fort Victoria, our only remaining solid store support ship, is due to be decommissioned in 2028, yet even before this rescue deal, new FSS ships were not due to enter service until 2032. Is there any scope at all to accelerate that and close the capability gap?
19 Dec 2024 · Business of the House · Hansard source
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Mr Speaker, a merry Christmas to you and all staff. I put on record that my mam is a WASPI woman. My right hon. Friend will know full well the strength of feeling regarding this week’s announcement of no compensation for the WASPI women. The ombudsman was clear that Parliament should make the decision on remedy. Parliament has not. Will my right hon. Friend please find time for a debate so that we can do as the ombudsman has asked us to do?
16 Dec 2024 · English Devolution · Hansard source
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Decisions taken in this place are subject to rigorous scrutiny and accountability, but recent history in several areas shows that that is not always the case with local decision making—not all councillors and mayors are paragons of virtue. As we dissolve more powers, can my hon. Friend explain what levels of scrutiny and accountability will be built into his plans?
28 Nov 2024 · People Housebound due to Disability: Church Support · Hansard source
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Churches Together South Tyneside does amazing work through its Happy at Home hub, providing a range of services to the lonely and the isolated. Will my hon. Friend expand a little more on the Church’s wider pastoral duties towards those in the greatest need?
28 Nov 2024 · People Housebound due to Disability: Church Support · Hansard source
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7. What steps the Church is taking to support people that are housebound due to a disability.
28 Nov 2024 · Business of the House · Hansard source
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My constituent Jo Pyke is a counsellor at a local cancer charity. She has stage 4 mucosal melanoma. Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy, which is only available in the USA, could save her life. Our community is fundraising to get Jo to America, but Jo and many others need that therapy here in the UK. Will the Leader of the House use her good offices to help Jo fight this awful disease?
18 Nov 2024 · Children’s Social Care · Hansard source
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I welcome my right hon. Friend’s considerate focus. Children in care have died in unregulated accommodation, but that did not stop the last Conservative Government introducing cruel legislation to make it permissible for councils to place children in care aged 16 and above into such accommodation—tents, caravans, bed and breakfasts and houses in multiple occupation, surrounded by adult strangers and with no continuing care at all. Please will she overturn that legislation?
18 Nov 2024 · Independent Armed Forces Commissioner · Hansard source
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6. What progress he has made on establishing an independent armed forces commissioner.
18 Nov 2024 · Independent Armed Forces Commissioner · Hansard source
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I thank the Minister for all he is doing to improve the lives of our armed forces communities. He will be aware of the deeply distressing accounts of rape and sexual assault from the Defence Committee’s report on women in the armed forces. Will he please revisit our recommendations and those of the Lyons review, so that those serious cases can be heard in civilian, not service courts?
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?

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