Discrimination in Sport

12 Jun 2019

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is making an excellent case for the need to tackle discrimination in sport. As well as racism, I am sure she is aware of homophobia, so will she join me in celebrating community...

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VJ Day: Anniversaries

10 Jun 2019

Ministry of Defence

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans her Department has to commemorate far east prisoners of war on the anniversary of VJ day.

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Grenfell: Government Response

10 Jun 2019

Commons debates

When in 2014 the all-party parliamentary fire safety rescue group asked the then local government Minister in the coalition Government to act on the coroner’s recommendations, published in...

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Hong Kong

10 Jun 2019

Commons debates

The worries about this breaking of the firewall and the possible intrusion into one country, two systems would not exist if there were not serious concerns about egregious breaches of human...

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Murders in Northamptonshire: Serious Case Reviews

10 Jun 2019

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) and the Minister for their approach and their responses to this horrific example of child abuse. The connections between...

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Sure Start: Ifs Report

05 Jun 2019

Commons debates

Following on from my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth), I visited a lot of Sure Start centres in my capacity as a domestic violence practitioner and helped them with their...

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Post-18 Education and Funding

04 Jun 2019

Commons debates

Does the Secretary of State not agree with me that ensuring that free or low-cost high-quality childcare was available on demand for parents who need it to go to college or university would be...

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Illegal Seaborne Migration

04 Jun 2019

Commons debates

I am grateful to the Minister for her emphasis on safety and preventing harm and loss of life and to hear that an announcement is imminent about the expansion, or something, of resettlement....

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EU Parliament Elections: Denial of Votes

04 Jun 2019

Commons debates

The Minister does not seem to have accepted the fact that this vote happened as a result of something that was entirely predictable. The Department for Exiting the European Union has a Minister...

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Leaving the European Union

22 May 2019

Commons debates

The Prime Minister asks what it would say about democracy if we put this back to the public. The Leader of the Opposition has said from the Dispatch Box that if the Prime Minister likes her deal...

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Engagements

22 May 2019

Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in the House of Commons

The Prime Minister must be considering her legacy. She said she wants to correct burning injustice, so will she commit to supporting legislation such as that proposed by my hon. Friend the Member...

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Pension Funds: Financial and Ethical Investments - [Mr George Howarth in the Chair]

22 May 2019

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Howarth. I shall cut from my speech anything that anyone else has already said, and try to focus on things that I hope are new to the debate....

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

It was a report by Bristol University that was commissioned by the Welsh Government.

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q The Welsh Government commissioned a report by Bristol University, which found extensive evidence that supports a ban. Are you aware of that report?

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I did not bring up religion.

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q Mr Lacey, you referred to the past abuses of people in circuses as irrelevant. You referred to slavery and said it was also irrelevant because things move on. I think you might have missed the...

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

This is in Mrs Brown’s evidence, and I want to know what she thinks it has to do with the Bill.

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q I am sorry, Mrs Brown. I asked you about the comment on Muslims and whether you thought Mr Rutley had deliberately picked a piece of legislation—that is what you are alleging—

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Examination of Witnesses

21 May 2019

Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill

Thangam Debbonaire made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q I have a follow-up for Mrs Brown. My colleague asked why you thought it was necessary to suggest that the Government would not ban wild animals if the Jollys were a Muslim family. I would like...

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Property: Ownership

20 May 2019

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory time limit for property management...

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