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Josh Fenton-Glynn MP: speeches

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  • 1 Jul 2025 · Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill · Hansard source
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    I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. I welcome the improvements made to the Bill so far, but I think we still need more details about the co-productive element of the Timms review. Will she confirm that the review will guarantee that disabled people and their organisations are the key voice in developing this policy? Will the review change and revolutionise the view in Whitehall, so that future policies that impact disabled people will always have their voices central to the discussion?

  • 1 Jul 2025 · Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill · Hansard source
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  • 30 Jun 2025 · Welfare Reform · Hansard source
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    As a signatory to the reasoned amendment, I welcome the listening that has gone on, because a lot of people with disabilities will sleep more soundly in their beds knowing that their benefits are protected. However, on a specific point, if someone currently receives PIP but their condition is getting worse and they ask for a reassessment of the level of their PIP, will they be assessed under the current system or under the new one?

  • 20 Jun 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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    Will the hon. Member give way?

  • 20 Jun 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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    I have the pleasure of sitting with my hon. Friend on the Health and Social Care Select Committee. I am well aware, as she is, that palliative care is not where it should be. That is one of the reasons I am voting against this Bill today, because we know—as my hon. Friend knows from her public health lens—that there are social determinants of health. Surely, we cannot vote for measures today that would lead to a social determinant of an early death.

  • 13 Jun 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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  • 12 Jun 2025 · Spending Review: Health and Social Care · Hansard source
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    This Government have made phenomenal progress on the elective care waiting lists left by the last Government, but the progress on mental health waiting lists has been stubbornly slow, with 1.2 million people still waiting for treatment. That includes 62,000 people covered by the West Yorkshire ICB that serves my Calder Valley constituency, which I think is the second-highest figure in the country. Can my hon. Friend please assure me that we will use this settlement to redouble the work we have done on elective waiting lists, while also putting a real focus on mental health waiting lists?

  • 5 Jun 2025 · Free School Meals · Hansard source
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    In one fell swoop, this measure will take 100,000 children out of poverty. In my constituency, 2,500 children will benefit. Fighting poverty is in the Labour party’s DNA, but with over 4.5 million children left in poverty by the Conservative party, which has not turned up for the statement, will the Minister please assure me that we will not stop there and that there will be meaningful change through the child poverty strategy this autumn?

  • 3 Jun 2025 · Thames Water · Hansard source
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    This is another example of the previous Government’s failure to get a grip of our water system. Meanwhile, just last week this Government fined Yorkshire Water £350,000. My constituents are really upset to see their water bills going up. Can my right hon. Friend assure me that he will never let our national infrastructure get as bad as those on the Conservative Benches did?

  • 22 May 2025 · Independent Sentencing Review · Hansard source
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    I thank the Lord Chancellor for her statement today, which is a sensible response to the overincarceration and prison places crisis. Can she assure my constituents that notwithstanding these changes, under-reported and under-prosecuted crimes, such as violence against women and girls, will continue to be prioritised by this Government?

  • 22 May 2025 · Diego Garcia Military Base · Hansard source
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    Will the hon. Member let me finish? I have on a number of occasions intervened on Conservative Members to ask them to name the Chagos islands, and they have been unable to tell me that there is Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, the Salomon islands, the Egmont islands—

  • 22 May 2025 · Diego Garcia Military Base · Hansard source
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    I am alarmed by the passion of Conservative Members for the Chagos islands—

  • 22 May 2025 · Diego Garcia Military Base · Hansard source
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    I do not share the right hon. Member’s passion. Similarly, the Leader of the Opposition first tweeted about the Chagos islands in October 2024. That was five years after the ICJ ruling and two years after negotiations started. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Conservatives’ new-found passion for the Chagos islands perhaps owes more to political opportunism than to any deeply held conviction?

  • 21 May 2025 · Business and the Economy · Hansard source
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    I am enjoying the hon. Member’s peroration on the halcyon days of the last Conservative Government, but he knows, as I do, that had the last Conservative Government seen growth even close to what we had in the mid-2000s, everyone in this country would be £2,400 better off. However, what we saw was stagnation and Liz Truss.

  • 21 May 2025 · Business and the Economy · Hansard source
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    Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

  • 21 May 2025 · Business and the Economy · Hansard source
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    As a member of the Health and Social Care Committee, I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s conversion to the cause of social care. Could he point me to where in the record, between Dilnot reporting in 2011 and today, he mentioned it while his party was in government?

  • 20 May 2025 · Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories · Hansard source
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    The United Nations has stated that 14,000 babies could starve to death if aid does not get in. My right hon. Friend described that as intolerable, but it sometimes feels like we still tolerate it. What will the escalation of diplomatic measures against the Israeli Government look like, so we can stop this atrocity from happening?

  • 20 May 2025 · Victims and Courts Bill · Hansard source
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    I know that my hon. Friend cares deeply about this issue. In the course of the passage of the Bill, will the Government look at amendments that could see the family courts end the presumption of contact and ensure we end this cycle of abuse?

  • 20 May 2025 · UK-EU Summit · Hansard source
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    Calder Valley is home to many of the small and medium-sized enterprises that simply stopped trading with Europe because of the disastrous deal agreed by the Conservatives. Can the Prime Minister assure me that he will not stop here with this deal, but will continue to work to open more of our borders to more of our businesses?

  • 19 May 2025 · NHS and Care Volunteer Responders Service · Hansard source
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    I pay tribute to all the volunteers across Calder Valley and the rest of the country who helped with the fantastic vaccine roll-out. Will the Minister confirm that despite scaremongering from the Conservatives, people will of course still be able to volunteer for the NHS and support others?

  • 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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    Just this week, the Health and Social Care Committee heard from vulnerable service-users who talked about white coat syndrome—that people are more likely to be pushed into options when given them by medical professionals. That is the concern behind the amendment. I do not know how I will vote on the Bill, but I am minded to support the amendment because of what I have heard from people from vulnerable communities.

  • 15 May 2025 · Sanctions Implementation and Enforcement · Hansard source
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    Can my hon. Friend update us on what conversations have been had about the use of frozen and sanctioned Russian assets to support those fighting Russian aggression in Ukraine?

  • 6 May 2025 · Middle East Update · Hansard source
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    Gaza has had aid blocked for two months. Netanyahu said that the population may be moved for their own safety—safety from whom? Can the Minister explain what further diplomatic consequences Israel will face if it continues down this road?

  • 28 Apr 2025 · SEND Funding · Hansard source
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    The last Government left SEND education throughout the country in crisis. The National Audit Office found that there was no consistent improvement in outcomes from 2019 onwards. I saw that at first hand when I met Calder Valley parents of SEND children at Highbury School in Rastrick, where I saw committed parents and teachers struggling with a failed system. What will my right hon. Friend do to fix the mess that the last Government made of the system?

  • 28 Apr 2025 · SEND Funding · Hansard source
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    9. What steps she is taking to ensure sustainable funding for SEND provision in schools.

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