Stoke-on-Trent Central
Labour (Co-op)Overall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 292nd of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 23%. 22 contributions since 2024-09-05.
“Absolutely. If we want to make fertiliser or other industrial gases in this country, we need natural gas to power those processes. There is no other way—the chemistry simply does not exist to create the gases we need without using natural gas.”
Oil and Gas · 2026-03-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I accept the Minister’s point about having more home-grown energy, and renewables can be good for insulating ourselves from economic shocks, but he will know that great swathes of our industrial base are gas dependent, not least the ceramics industry.”
Oil and Gas · 2026-03-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Member for Winchester (Dr Chambers), who spoke so eloquently about the perils of eating disorders, from the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse), who talked about the ability to sell drugs online, and from those on the Government Benches, including my hon.”
Online Harm: Child Protection · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I will constrain my comments to three themes, and I want to start with policy. This has been a very interesting and wide-ranging debate. We have heard from many speakers across the House who have articulated the heartfelt and thoughtful concerns that all of us have about the pervasive way in which social media can infl…”
Online Harm: Child Protection · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My constituency has been well served for 35 years by the West Midlands Air Ambulance Service, but there is now the Stoke Air Ambulance. Yesterday, the fundraising regulator published a damning report about the new boy in town, because, despite raising hundreds of thousands of pounds, it does not have a helicopter, a pa…”
Business of the House · 2026-02-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It recognises that there is an acute waiting list for housing in Stoke-on-Trent, and that we need to build the houses that we need for local people, so that generations of families can live there.”
Housing: North Staffordshire · 2025-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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