Sarah Champion MP: speeches

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• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  We have two and a half hours, Minister.

• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  Perhaps the hon. Member was distracted when I mentioned the issue of me holding a roundtable with all these industries on this very issue, but I am happy to meet colleagues from across the House on these issues. I explained in the point that he perhaps missed that it is tricky because it has to be regulatable—we have to ensure that the regulator can verify what would happen. Of course, it is a complex micro-econometric model. As soon as fees are reduced in one area, they go up in another area. That is the bottom line on all this.

• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  A plethora of interventions, but I have to go to the sister at the back first.

• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  I hope to amplify the hon. Lady’s points later in my speech. Glass is not just another packaging material; it is infinitely recyclable.

• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  My hon. Friend makes a point that I was not aware of. I have been in contact with loads of different industries, but not that particular one. It seems as though it is the same sort of double payment that hospitality is facing. That absolutely needs to be addressed. Businesses have also been told that they need to move towards reuse systems. I am sure that both the points we are raising will be mentioned by the Minister in her response. It is true that glass is the perfect material to reuse, but it is not within the power of the glass manufacturing sector to force producers to move to use reusable bottles. Let us be honest: widescale reuse systems in the UK will take significant buy-in from the whole supply chain and will take at least a decade to become a reality, by which point—let me also be honest again—we will not have a glass manufacturing sector in the UK to supply the reusable glass packaging. The signal that the Government are giving to businesses is clear: switch away from glass right now. The result? We are seeing an evident and accelerated shift away from UK-made glass towards both cheaper imports, which now account for—I am really surprised by this—14% of the market, and increasingly towards plastic.

• 1 Jul 2026 · Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility · Hansard source

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  Will the Minister give way?

• 1 Jun 2026 · Child Sexual Offender Data · Hansard source

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  I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for referring to the Jay report on Rotherham. She will be aware that the frontline staff were gathering that data; management and the upper echelons were blocking it. She is absolutely right to ask why that happened, and what the consequences were—I put it to her that there were not many.

• 1 Jun 2026 · Child Sexual Offender Data · Hansard source

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  Will the right hon. Lady give way?

• 1 Jun 2026 · Child Sexual Offender Data · Hansard source

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  Can the Minister give clarity on whether the Government will also accept the 20 recommendations made by the IICSA inquiry?

• 20 Apr 2026 · Security Vetting · Hansard source

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  There are 61 conflicts raging around the world, and I have never known international diplomatic relationships to be more fractured. The FCDO is pushing through 40% cuts of aid and 25% cuts of staff, all under the watch of the permanent secretary, so can I ask the Prime Minister what risk assessment was carried out before he was removed?

• 4 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Member for his kind words and for expressing that sentiment. Of course, faith communities do so much internationally, because it is the right thing to do, but they should be complementing what Governments are doing. At the moment, we know the scale of the cuts, but we do not know the distribution—it is not fair to be looking for philanthropic kindness to fill those gaps. We know that reductions are taking place, but we do not know which programmes will be impacted. That is not just us in this House but the people on the frontline trying their very best to deliver these programmes to the very poorest.

• 4 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Hansard source

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  I will of course give way.

• 4 Nov 2025 · Official Development Assistance Reductions · Hansard source

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  You have lots of time.