Clive in Parliament - Clive Efford

Contaminated Blood Scandal: Interim Payments for Victims

Commons debates

The fact that interim payments have been recommended implies that there is an urgency in compensating these people. It is five years since the inquiry was set up and more than 400 people have...

Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement: Scrutiny

Commons debates

I congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) and the other members of the International Trade Committee on standing up for this Parliament. The way the Government are behaving is...

Ambulance Pressures

Commons debates

It is worth remembering that the 2010 to 2015 Conservative Government took £6 billion out of social care, so it is no wonder that we are facing a logjam. Since 2015, not once have the...

Extreme Heat Preparedness

Commons debates

I do not feel that the House is any better informed about the Government’s response to this heatwave following the answer to the urgent question than we were when we first walked in. The...

Business of the House

Commons debates

While the Conservatives have been romanticising about the post-covid return to austerity cuts, I doubt they have noticed this week’s Resolution Foundation report, which highlighted growing...

New Clause 15 - Guidance about illegal content judgements

Online Safety Bill

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. There have been 50 resignations of Ministers; the Government are mired in controversy; people are acting up as Ministers who are not quite...

Topical Questions

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

The Secretary of State was very upbeat in her response to the Opposition Front Bencher, my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith), who asked about local authority leisure...

Points of Order

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am concerned that the House may have been misled inadvertently, at least by omission. The Paymaster General asserted that the Prime Minister did not recall that...

Standards in Public Life

Commons debates

The Minister is increasingly looking like the boy who stands on the burning deck. His problem is that the Prime Minister is going to desert him as well. The trouble is that gossip and innuendo...

Post Office: Compensation for Horizon Scandal

Commons debates

The Minister knows that I have two such cases. One person is in front of the independent panel giving advice on the historical shortfall scheme. The other person has a conviction that was...

Metropolitan Police Service

Commons debates

The Minister was deputy mayor for policing in London when the worst cuts were imposed by this Government, and I do not remember him raising his voice against those cuts once. People cannot take...

NDAs: Universities

Westminster Hall debates

I will call Layla Moran to move the motion and then call the Minister to respond. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.

Inflation

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of inflation on the UK economy.

Housing Regeneration: Former Industrial Areas

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

There are nearly 200,000 fewer council housing properties today than there were in 2010. How have a Government who are committed to levelling up allowed that to happen?

Bill of Rights

Commons debates

The Secretary of State has asserted that 70% of successful human rights challenges are brought by foreign nationals who cite a right to family life in the first instance when appealing...

Access to GP Services and NHS Dentistry

Commons debates

Covid is just a pathetic excuse, because even if it was the sole reason, the Secretary of State should have been planning for when we came out of it, but nothing he has said explains why we had...

Access to GP Services and NHS Dentistry

Commons debates

The “Panorama” programme also exposed the fact that GP practices are being hoovered up by the private sector. Operose Health now owns 70 practices, with more than 600,000 patients....

Industrial Action on the Railway

Commons debates

Earlier, the Secretary of State waved around a document relating to 28 areas of reform that he thinks need to be implemented to modernise our railway. Has he stipulated that they must be agreed...

Ukraine: UK and NATO Military Commitment

Commons debates

This argument of more for less that we are hearing from the Government is what we have heard from them in virtually every area of public expenditure, whether it be the health service, social care...

Rail Strikes

Commons debates

Will the Minister give way?