Liam Byrne’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour

Liam Byrne MP in Parliament

Human Rights: Kashmir

Commons debates

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for scheduling this debate and I am grateful to the all-party parliamentary group on Kashmir for its work. I want to make three very quick points, but the...

Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint Committee

Commons debates

Never has the old saying been more true: a failure to plan is a plan to fail. This Government failed to plan and these Ministers are now failing. They are failing people in Afghanistan and their...

Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint Committee

Commons debates

On that point, will the Minister give way?

Vaccination: Birmingham

Department of Health and Social Care

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide written instructions to NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group requiring them (a) to liaise with...

International Aid: Treasury Update

Commons debates

That was a great speech and it is a pleasure to follow it. The House does not need a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury to lay out how today’s motion is a con job, but I shall explain...

Official Development Assistance and the British Council

Commons debates

Like many others, I want to speak because I deplore these cuts in aid, which have been discussed this afternoon with so much analysis and eloquence. These cuts will have consequences; these cuts...

Levelling Up Fund: Ministerial Duties

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Minister of his Department is responsible for the day to day administration of the Levelling Up Fund.

G7 and NATO Summits

Commons debates

The original Atlantic charter made a commitment to banish from the world “fear and want”—curiously missing from the redraft—but the Prime Minister’s ambition to...

Companies: Ownership

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) companies and (b) individuals who have not complied with...

0.7% Official Development Assistance Target

Commons debates

We were proud to set the ambition, and we set a critical path to doing it, because we knew precisely this—that development and deterrence are two sides of the same coin. They are essential...

0.7% Official Development Assistance Target

Commons debates

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) and I thank the House authorities and Mr Speaker for the debate today. I have risen to speak because this decision seems,...

0.7% Official Development Assistance Target

Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman is making a brilliant speech. I just want to flush out one point, which I hope will be a point of consensus. It is possible that this weekend we will get agreement on a...

Companies: Ownership

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the proportion of all registered companies in the UK which have not listed an ultimate...

International Development Association

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to encourage his international counterparts to contribute to the twentieth...

International Monetary System

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the reallocation of the IMF's existing stock of Special Drawing Rights.

G7: Cornwall

Liam Byrne received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Prime Minister, what his priorities are for the 2021 G7 summit in Cornwall.

Engagements

Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

Covid has triggered the first global rise in extreme poverty this century, but at the G7 the Prime Minister could act. He can ask leaders to reallocate the International Monetary Fund’s...

Israel and Gaza: Ceasefire

Commons debates

We heard the Minister’s statement of policy; we just do not understand the strategy for advancing it. He has to realise, like the rest of us, that there is no peace without justice. The way...

Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work

Debate on the Address

Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind words. Does he agree that at the G7 and later this year at COP26, Her Majesty’s Government would stand a far better chance of encouraging...

Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work

Debate on the Address

Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

I had not planned to speak today, but last Thursday the good people of the west midlands decided that they needed me fighting their corner from the cockpit of the west midlands, rather than from...