Domestic Abuse

16 Jul 2019

Commons debates

I am delighted to welcome the Bill today. It feels like the first parliamentary step in what has seemed like a marathon to get to this point, but I think that we can all agree that this Bill...

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Relationship Education in Schools

16 Jul 2019

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your advice about potentially correcting the record on something that has been said during this urgent question. The Minister stated that the “no...

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Relationship Education in Schools

16 Jul 2019

Commons debates

If the Minister thinks the guidance is right, he might want to come and live where I live for a while, because it clearly is not working. All that is needed in the guidance is something that says...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

I like that sentence, Sir Gary. I thank everyone who spoke today. The strength of feeling in this House is clear: we wish to see the figure for people in our detention estate who have suffered...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

I appreciate everything that the Minister has been saying, and some of those things show signs of improvement. There are two points I am not sure she has answered. My hon. Friend the Member for...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is ridiculous that the “reflection period”, as I believe it is called, is 45 days and is considered to be the reasonable amount of time that...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

I completely agree. Paradoxically, the support services that the Home Office funds specifically for human trafficking are good and relatively well funded for those who have already gone through...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

I could not agree more; it is clearly a problem, and not just in trafficking services. Sometimes I have to speak to the immigration wing of the Home Office and explain issues of domestic violence...

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Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

09 Jul 2019

Westminster Hall debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered the immigration detention of survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. As always, Sir Gary, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairship. I am...

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100,000 Genomes Project

05 Jul 2019

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to evaluate the 100,000 Genomes Project.

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Genomics England

05 Jul 2019

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which organisation Genomics England is accountable to.

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Genomics England

05 Jul 2019

Department of Health and Social Care

Jess Phillips received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role he plans Genomics England to play in the NHS Genomic Medicine Service after the completion of the 100,000 Genomes Project.

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Parental Involvement in Teaching: Equality Act

25 Jun 2019

Petition - Closure of Heywood Crown Post Office

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; she is speaking incredibly movingly. As somebody who lives closer, I think, than anybody else to the schools particularly in question and lives in the...

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Points of Order

24 Jun 2019

European Council

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder if you could give me some advice or perhaps commission, in your role as the Chair of the House, some training for Members on the issue of domestic...

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School Places

24 Jun 2019

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Jess Phillips made a speech in the House of Commons

Lots of things make a school good. A headteacher who I met yesterday in my constituency had written to the Department for Education for a specific answer to a question. He did not feel that he...

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Cox Report: Implementation

18 Jun 2019

Commons debates

I can hear the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) saying no. I do not know how this is the House being accountable. How is it decided that the right hon. Gentleman is...

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Cox Report: Implementation

18 Jun 2019

Commons debates

I would like some answers about how the decision is made on who is the Commission’s spokesperson. I do not know whether it is a paid role.

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Cox Report: Implementation

18 Jun 2019

Commons debates

Absolutely. I want Members in all political parties—let us not pretend that this is not happening in all parties—and all the institutions of Parliament and politics to know that a...

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Cox Report: Implementation

18 Jun 2019

Commons debates

Absolutely. That is certainly a concern. This place has a way of reminding us how welcome we are at the moment. I have absolutely no doubt that there are people here whose processes have been in...

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Cox Report: Implementation

18 Jun 2019

Commons debates

Indeed. What I find about the people who want me to be involved in their cases is that they do not usually have anything to hide. It is a small thing that this is about me, and it is a pleasure...

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