Latest Parliamentary Activity by Cambridge's MP:
- Business of the House: Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL - Friday Sep 26 2014
It is very good that this House debates and votes before action happens. May I press the Prime Minister, however, because he has often said that there would no boots on the ground? The motion is very carefully worded—slightly dif ... - Written Answers — Home Department: Journalism: Telephone Tapping - Thursday Sep 11 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions in the last year powers under the Regulation of Investigators Powers Act 2000 have been used to access telephone records of journalists. ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Treason - Tuesday Sep 9 2014
Does my right hon. Friend agree with the Law Commission’s 10th programme for law reform, which states that the offence of treason should be looked at again because it is outdated and needs improvement? It covers many offences that ... - [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair] — Nursery Schools - Tuesday Sep 9 2014
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate on an important subject. On a slightly more positive note, will she congratulate the six Cambridgeshire nursery schools—three of which, Brunswick, The Fields and Colleges, are i ... - Written Answers — Home Department: British Nationality - Tuesday Sep 9 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date section 65 of the Immigration Act 2014 will be brought into force. ... - [Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair] — Backbench Business — Pancreatic Cancer - Monday Sep 8 2014
I thank the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dakin) on securing this important debate. Before I was elected, I used to do ... - bill presented: Mitochondrial Replacement (Public Safety) - Monday Sep 1 2014
indicated dissent. ... - bill presented: Mitochondrial Replacement (Public Safety) - Monday Sep 1 2014
It is pleasure to speak in this debate, and I pay tribute to the work of so many, but particularly the Lily Foundation and the Wellcome Trust who have done a huge amount to prepare for this debate, to educate the public, to support Memb ... - bill presented: Mitochondrial Replacement (Public Safety) - Monday Sep 1 2014
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but I would improve the motion in a number of ways. I would not try to characterise Lord Winston’s position as being fundamentally different from what it is. I would also say that we need to ... - bill presented: Mitochondrial Replacement (Public Safety) - Monday Sep 1 2014
I do not have a list of the organisms it has been tested on, but it has been widely tested on a number of organisms—I assume that mice are one, but I could not be absolutely certain—and has been successful. Obviously, if it ... - bill presented: Mitochondrial Replacement (Public Safety) - Monday Sep 1 2014
Does the hon. Lady accept that when anything is tried on a human for the first time, we cannot be absolutely certain what will happen? Is she really saying that we should not do anything—no cancer treatment, nothing—until we ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: EU Council, Security and Middle East - Monday Sep 1 2014
The Prime Minister presented two options for terrorism prevention and investigation measures. May I strongly urge him not to go down the route of internal exile without trial, which is not consistent with the British values we are trying ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions - Monday Sep 1 2014
On 11 March last year, I asked the Secretary of State about under-occupancy. I said:“Does the Secretary of State agree that no benefit reduction should take plac ... - Child Benefit Entitlement (Disqualification of Non-UK EU Nationals): Electronic Communications - Tuesday Jul 22 2014
I will speak to the regulations only briefly. I think that there are a couple of points worth making. It is interesting to compare the debate we are having now with the one in 2009. Back then, no time at all was given to discuss the re ... - Child Benefit Entitlement (Disqualification of Non-UK EU Nationals): Electronic Communications - Tuesday Jul 22 2014
I am sure the Minister will agree that for that public debate and a review to take place, we need good statistics and information. One of the few things that seems to be missing from the previous regulations and the new ones is a secti ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Police Reform - Tuesday Jul 22 2014
The Home Secretary is absolutely right to praise the work of the vast majority of police forces, but also right to highlight the need for public confidence and to make sure that the few rogue police officers do not do down all the othe ... - Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Guaranteed Minimum Pensions - Tuesday Jul 22 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to equalise guaranteed minimum pensions. ... - Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Second Pension - Tuesday Jul 22 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many men aged 65 receive additional state pension after a contracted-out deduction is applied. ... - Written Answers — Home Department: Hughes Chang - Monday Jul 21 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she has taken fully to comply with the High Court judgment in the Hughes Chang case. ... - Written Answers — Home Department: Police Custody: Young People - Monday Jul 21 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 17 year olds were held in police custody in each of the last five years. ...