Parliamentary Activity Feed - Thangam Debbonaire MP

Situation in the Gulf

Commons debates

I share the Foreign Secretary’s concerns about the possibility that tensions will escalate and that the region may descend into conflict. That is why it is so important that we are clear...

Immigration Detention: Victims of Modern Slavery

Commons debates

May I ask the Minister if she will reconsider the possibility of keeping such numbers centrally, including breaking them down, for instance, by how many victims of torture are kept in detention....

Immigration Detention: Victims of Modern Slavery

Commons debates

Further to the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Frank Field), is it not the case that keeping numbers centrally might be a good idea? I understand that the...

Domestic Abuse

Commons debates

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry but I have to make a slight correction. When I asked my question, I forgot to mention my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial...

Domestic Abuse

Commons debates

I hardly know where to start with my appreciation for this Bill and for the cross-party consensus that has broken out. Of course, there are things that I would like to be better and the Minister...

Relationship Education in Schools

Commons debates

In Bristol on Saturday the Pride event was a magnificent celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. I was there; it was wonderful. Many of the people in the parade and at the...

Topical Questions

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

What discussions is the Secretary of State having with his relevant counterparts in other departmental teams about the ability of people in the creative industries to travel around the European...

Refugee Settlement Programme

Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister knows that I would like the ambition to be as high as possible. What plans has she got to consult refugees and refugee organisations about the lessons that can be learned from...

Refugee Settlement Programme

Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

When he plans to announce details of the integrated programme to resettle an additional 5,000 refugees from 2020-21.

Resignation of Uk Ambassador to Usa

Commons debates

These attacks on, and the undermining of, the legislature, the judiciary, the civil service and the press are profoundly worrying. They have frightening historical echoes of dangerous political...

British Sign Language Courses

Women and Equalities

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous), as nobody in the Portcullis House atrium yesterday can have failed to have been moved by the signing choir, who performed to great...

Public Health: Finance

Department of Health and Social Care

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that public health funding is increased as part of the Government’s spending review.

Topical Questions

International Trade

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

Further to the question from the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patricia Gibson), is it not time that the Department for International Trade undertook a thorough review of all 29 or...

Barbecues

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect on the environment of the use of disposable barbecues; and if he will...

Barbecues

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to ban disposable barbecues.

Housing: Construction

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the effect of house building on (a) air and (b) soil pollution.

Climate Change, the Environment and Global Development

Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill (Programme)

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that the exporting of our climate problems is part of what we need to address in this House? I fear that, in trying to clean up our own...

Climate Change

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2019 to Question 270779 on Climate Change and with reference to with reference to her oral contribution of 26 June 2019, Official...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for compensation by people affected by the Windrush scandal have been successful, and how many of those successful...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Thangam Debbonaire received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect of a wrong decision being made denying a person...