Mike Tapp MP: speeches 2025

Speeches

• 27 Jan 2025 · Family Hubs: Kent · Hansard source

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  In Deal, Blossom children’s centre has been closed, and the new merged service does not offer the level of service required for one to four-year-olds and is not fit for purpose. What can be done to reopen that much-loved and sorely missed community asset?

• 27 Jan 2025 · Family Hubs: Kent · Hansard source

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  6. What steps her Department has taken to help keep family hubs open in Kent.

• 27 Jan 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

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  T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

• 27 Jan 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

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  I recently launched an exciting new reading initiative across Dover and Deal called Tapp into Reading. We tour the schools and the children read theatrically from a VE Day text. This will end in May, at a theatre. Will the Education Secretary join the judging panel then?

• 21 Jan 2025 · Southport Attack · Hansard source

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  It is important to note that this attacker is a terrorist. He has been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Biological Weapons Act 1974. The man is a terrorist. The attack itself has not been labelled terrorism because of the lack of a clear ideological motive—that is a decision for the police and the CPS. Will the Home Office look into how our legal frameworks might be updated to recognise the full horror of acts intended to terrorise?