Joy Morrissey MP: speeches

Speeches

• 3 Jun 2025 · Violent Offenders: Early Release · Hansard source

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  7. What discussions she has had with victims’ groups on the early release of violent offenders.

• 2 Jun 2025 · UK Nuclear Deterrent · Hansard source

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  I congratulate the Minister on his robust stance on the UK nuclear deterrent, which I welcome. From a Whip’s perspective, I am interested to know how he plans to bring his parliamentary party on side when so many have voted against the nuclear deterrent and Trident.

• 13 May 2025 · UK-EU Summit · Hansard source

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  The hon. Gentleman had a long time to speak, but I will give way once.

• 13 May 2025 · UK-EU Summit · Hansard source

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  And on national insurance. Forgive me for needing reassurance from the Dispatch Box that the Minister will not come back with some sort of 1984 doublespeak and expect us to enjoy that.

• 13 May 2025 · UK-EU Summit · Hansard source

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  I will finish and allow others to speak. I want to hear from colleagues from across the House, because this is a very interesting debate. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your time. I will really enjoy hearing from the Minister when they return from the summit on what exactly they have in mind for us and the EU.

• 1 Apr 2025 · Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] · Hansard source

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  Let me make some progress, and then I will give way. The Government have always claimed that they would not return us to the single market and the customs union, and many believed them. I was always a healthy sceptic, but I am willing to be proven wrong. However, my fear is that this Bill will lead to back-door EU regulatory alignment, and whether that is deliberate or unintentional matters not. We had our democratic instructions from the British people, and we must honour them. I now want to talk about competition—

• 1 Apr 2025 · Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] · Hansard source

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  I now want to talk about competition—

• 1 Apr 2025 · Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] · Hansard source

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  I will give way on a point about competition.

• 1 Apr 2025 · Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] · Hansard source

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  Well, I am now on competition. Would the hon. Member like to make a comment about that?

• 1 Apr 2025 · Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] · Hansard source

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  Let me make some progress.

• 19 Mar 2025 · Winter Fuel Payment · Hansard source

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  My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and one that I was going to make. This is about choices, and it is about the most vulnerable—the disabled pensioners who we did not have a way to test for. There was no mechanism to protect them, and I am very glad that my right hon. Friend chose to protect the most vulnerable disabled pensioners. By protecting everyone, we ensured that the most vulnerable were protected, and that was a tough choice that we made when in government. To be honest, I expected a Labour Government to make the same kind of choice, to protect the most vulnerable disabled pensioners, who have been negatively impacted by this choice. I would have expected better from a Labour Government.

• 19 Mar 2025 · Winter Fuel Payment · Hansard source

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  I think our record speaks for itself—we had 14 years. It is very interesting that the Labour party talks about tough choices. For pensioners, turning off the heat—being made to choose between heating and eating—is a tough choice. That is a choice that this Labour Government have made for the most vulnerable.

• 19 Mar 2025 · Winter Fuel Payment · Hansard source

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  My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. This is about transparency and keeping our promises to the British public, and it lays bare the truth about this Government.

• 19 Mar 2025 · Winter Fuel Payment · Hansard source

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  It is clear that we did not get rid of it in the first place, and we had 14 years. The interesting thing that we keep hearing—

• 19 Mar 2025 · Winter Fuel Payment · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Member for his contribution and for his advocacy on this issue. [ Interruption. ] I will respond as I go through my speech; he has made a very sound point. This is about tough choices. We all have to make tough choices, and being in government is hard. Those of us on either side of the House who have been in government know that it is difficult, but we make choices, and then we are held responsible. Conservative Members understand that, because we were held responsible.

• 13 Mar 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

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  T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

• 26 Feb 2025 · British Indian Ocean Territory · Hansard source

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  claimed to move the closure ( Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be now put. Question agreed to. Main Question accordingly put.

• 4 Feb 2025 · Clean Power by 2030 · Hansard source

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  To achieve his clean power plan, can the Secretary of State say exactly what local communities need to do to convince him that solar farms on agricultural lands are not appropriate in their area?

• 11 Dec 2024 · Puberty-suppressing Hormones · Hansard source

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  May I thank the Secretary of State for a very nuanced, well thought out and genuinely moving statement? He will very rarely hear me praise those on the Labour Front Bench, so he should enjoy it. I thank him for taking what is a very difficult stance. What I saw is that the Secretary of State has put young people first and has protected young people today. I am very grateful for that, and I would like to offer him my thanks. I also thank him for his nuanced approach in helping trans people in their transition in adulthood, because this is complicated and it needs a nuanced approach. I thank him for understanding that, and for his boldness today.

• 16 Oct 2024 · Access to Primary Healthcare · Hansard source

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  On that point, will the hon. Member give way?

• 8 Oct 2024 · VAT: Independent Schools · Hansard source

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