Liam Byrne’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour Party

Liam Byrne MP in Parliament

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Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

These are important new rules and I am glad that my Front Bench is giving them our wholehearted support. On the Labour Benches, we are very proud of our role in repealing section 28, not just in...

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Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

indicated dissent.

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Let me correct the hon. Gentleman on a point of substance. The long-term curriculum plan of the school was set at the beginning of the year, and that is what the school continues to deliver. Of...

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That is not what Parkfield School has done. It has agreed to go into dialogue with parents to ensure that the Equality Act is taught. That is the fact of the position.

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I am the local Member.

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Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

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I am grateful. As the Minister knows, I have worked with his officials every day for the past month on one of the issues in one of my schools. The parents at that school believe that the Equality...

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Health Services: 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, with reference to the Care Quality Commission report on medical services for homeless citizens in Birmingham, published in October 2018,...

Renewable Energy: West Midlands

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 proportion of the UK’s renewable energy supply in the last 12 months was generated from the West Midlands...

Charging Points: West Midlands

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 funding has been allocated to the West Midlands Combined Authority for the expansion of electric vehicle charging...

Electronic Commerce: EU Law

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish proposals for modernising the eCommerce Directive.

Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates

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

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of extending full fibre relief from five years to (a) 10 years, (b) 15 years and (c) 20 years...

Welfare Support

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Liam Byrne made a speech in the House of Commons

I spent most of Saturday collecting a third of a tonne of food for our local food banks as part of our Winter of Compassion campaign. It is already clear that we will have to run such food-bank...

Video Games

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many video games businesses have breached the Competition and Markets Authority’s set of Principles for Online and...

Health Services: 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, what assessment he has made of the specifications of the Clinical Commissioning Group plans to improve medical services for homeless...

Energy Companies Obligation: West Midlands

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, with reference to the Government's Clean Growth Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount and proportion of the...

Motor Vehicles: West Midlands

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many privately owned vehicles are registered in the West Midlands metro area; and how many of those vehicles are electric vehicles.

Psychiatric Hospitals: West Midlands

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, how many admissions for in-patient care were made for mental illness in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last five...