Rupa Huq MP: speeches

Speeches

• 18 Jun 2025 · HS2 Reset · Hansard source

  More

  I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her honesty as she set out this latest reset, necessitated by the mess that the Tories left. Old Oak Common is part of my constituency, and this week eight associations across two boroughs have banded together to create the Old Oak Alliance, with the purpose of fighting for compensation and mitigation in the current circumstances. They will be bitterly disappointed by the news of even more prolonged disruption. Will my right hon. Friend meet me—or, better still, come on a site visit to meet them and see what they are putting up with? We are dealing with a company whose idea of engagement is jam tomorrow and death by PowerPoint.

• 17 Jun 2025 · Prostate Cancer Treatment · Hansard source

  More

  The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. We are seeing a theme of uneven application. The rule of law means that the law applies to everyone, so it looks like something has gone wrong here.

• 17 Jun 2025 · Prostate Cancer Treatment · Hansard source

  More

  Yes, I will. What an honour to give way to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)!

• 17 Jun 2025 · Prostate Cancer Treatment · Hansard source

  More

  The hon. Member reads my mind about the postcode lottery, which I will come to in my list of questions. I know that my hon. Friend the Minister is very sympathetic and on the right side. Abiraterone is now a global drug. Half a million men around the world have had transformed outcomes, improved quality of life and extra years spent with loved ones.

• 17 Jun 2025 · Prostate Cancer Treatment · Hansard source

  More

  Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis has to some extent put prostate cancer in the spotlight of late, but it is not just him—there is Stephen Fry, Jools Holland and Robert De Niro. More than 50,000 men in the UK and 1.4 million men worldwide are diagnosed with prostate cancer yearly, which is projected to double by 2040. With one in eight men diagnosed during their life, it is the most common male cancer. More than half of those men are pre-retirement age, such as the cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, who was diagnosed at 48, but 70-plus is the most common age. My late dad was 69 when he was diagnosed. He left this earth just shy of his 79th birthday in August 2014, so he had 10 years. It is often said that men die with prostate cancer, not of it. With my dad, it spread to bone cancer, but pneumonia was actually the cause of death on the certificate. I miss him every day. Treatment for prostate cancer has improved dramatically since then. One crucial breakthrough is the development of the drug abiraterone, a Great British success story discovered and initially developed in London at the Institute of Cancer Research. It is a shining example of British science leading the world and revolutionising advanced prostate cancer care.

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

  More

  It is brilliant that the Brexit logjam that has cast a long shadow over this House for so many years has been smashed by this Prime Minister. Could he indicate when we might hear a bit more about the youth experience scheme that has been so yearned for and so welcomed by the universities and the English language teaching sector, and also by my staff, team and son, who were born too late to have a say in any of the mess that the Tories left behind?

• 8 Apr 2025 · New Homes: Affordability · Hansard source

  More

  4. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase the affordability of new homes.

• 13 Mar 2025 · High Street Businesses · Hansard source

  More

  4. What steps he is taking to support high street businesses.

• 27 Feb 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

  More

  T7. One thousand musical acts from Annie Lennox to Zero 7 have released an album of blank tracks, which is where they feel the text and data mining exception is leading. Will my right hon. and hon. Friends look into this, so that Great British creativity is not replaced with AI butchery?

• 27 Feb 2025 · Women’s Health · Hansard source

  More

  With a time limit of four minutes—the clock is counting backwards—I call Jim Shannon.

• 27 Feb 2025 · Women’s Health · Hansard source

  More

  Everyone who wants to speak should be bobbing, because we will be calculating the time limit depending on how many there are.

• 27 Feb 2025 · Women’s Health · Hansard source

  More

  I am sorry to do this, but I am imposing a newly reduced time limit of three and a half minutes.

• 27 Feb 2025 · Women’s Health · Hansard source

  More

  Finally, for what we think is her first outing as a Minister in Westminster Hall—although she is a veteran of the Chamber already— I call Ashley Dalton.

• 22 Jan 2025 · Certificate of Common Sponsorship · Hansard source

  More

  Order. I remind hon. Members to stand. We will then work out how much time each Member gets.

• 22 Jan 2025 · Certificate of Common Sponsorship · Hansard source

  More

  We said five minutes each.

• 13 Jan 2025 · Live Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing Practices · Hansard source

  More

  The statement is hugely welcomed by me, after the disappointment of my private Member’s Bill on this subject falling off, and by my constituent Alison Martin, the mum of Coldplay’s Chris, who fed into my Bill. Will my hon. Friend the Minister assure me that he will resist the argument about over-regulation of our lives and market forces that we hear “Time After Time” from Conservative Members? We just heard it again. When I was trying to get sign-ups for my Bill, many Conservative Members did not want to know. This is a consumer protection measure—a cap for all our constituents—to stop those bots from hoovering up tickets and hiking up prices. Will the Minister also reiterate that we are not against all dynamic pricing? The price of tickets can go down as well as up, and we do not mind that.

• 18 Dec 2024 · Copyright and Artificial Intelligence · Hansard source

  More

  I welcome this consultation and my hon. Friend’s recognition that neither we nor this stuff exists in a bubble. What does he make of the NO FAKES—Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe—Bill, currently in the US House of Representatives, which protects personality and likeness of human writers and artists against misappropriation? The Minister says he is in meetings mode. Does he know what is happening with the consultation on live event ticketing? It would be great to meet him to discuss my private Member’s Bill—the anti-Oasis-style scam, rip-off ticketing Bill—which is being squashed by Friday filibustering.

• 10 Dec 2024 · Rare Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases · Hansard source

  More

  I call the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans), to speak for His Majesty’s loyal Opposition.

• 10 Dec 2024 · Rare Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases · Hansard source

  More

  I remind Members that they should bob if they want to be called in the debate.

• 10 Dec 2024 · Cleve Hill Solar Park · Hansard source

  More

  I will call Helen Whately to move the motion, and then I will call the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention with these 30-minute wonders.

• 10 Dec 2024 · Cleve Hill Solar Park · Hansard source

  More

  Not in a 30-minute debate.

• 2 Dec 2024 · North-West Syria · Hansard source

  More

  Christian minority families find themselves facing jihadist terrorists and Russian airstrikes. The family of my Acton constituent Waheba fled to Aleppo 10 years ago from their original city of Al-Tabqah. She wonders whether there could be some kind of Ukrainian-style resettlement scheme for Syrians with blood ties here.

• 28 Nov 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source

  More

  T5. Since the announcement of my Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill, which makes provision for transparency on ticket prices, I have been deluged with suggestions and support worldwide from people who do not want another Oasis-style ticket scam. Will Ministers meet me to discuss working together on this, given the chance that on 6 December, Opposition Members’ shenanigans will sink the thing without trace?

• 20 Nov 2024 · Global Plastics Treaty · Hansard source

  More

  I can answer that, actually. It is only a 30-minute debate, so it is very bare bones and there is no opportunity for the mover of the motion to respond and no Opposition spokesperson. It is not that they did not turn up.

• 20 Nov 2024 · Global Plastics Treaty · Hansard source

  More

  I will call Dr Simon Opher to move the motion and I believe there will be one other small speech before the Minister responds. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up on this occasion, as this is only a 30-minute debate.