Clive in Parliament - Clive Efford

Business of the House

Commons debates

We have had the priority lane, which is a list of companies bidding for billions of pounds-worth of covid contracts. We know not how they get on that list, although being a Tory donor or a friend...

Football Governance

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that answer and I welcome her to her new post and congratulate her on the appointment. The interim report from the chair of the panel makes it clear...

Football Governance

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

What her Department’s involvement is in the fan-led review of football governance.

Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is making an extremely powerful speech. We have been through a period when communities have come together, and he has just talked about volunteering and the way that communities...

Schools: Coronavirus

Department for Education

Clive Efford received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the scientific advice on which he based his decision to remove the requirement for wearing face coverings in secondary schools from...

Health and Social Care Levy Bill

Commons debates

I have heard what the former Secretary of State has said about the record on social care, but can he explain what he did to try to prevent the Conservative Government from taking £8 billion...

Health and Social Care Levy Bill

Commons debates

Health and Social Care Levy Bill

Commons debates

It seems to me that we are spending this money twice, so can the Minister tell the House specifically how much will go into the NHS from this increase and how much will go into social care? What...

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

We know that the ring of protection that the Government spoke of last year was non-existent and left many vulnerable adults in social care exposed to infection. Will the Secretary of State...

Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-olds

Commons debates

I heard the Minister’s earlier answer about assistance for schools with ventilators and air purification. The time to roll that out would have been during the summer holidays, in...

Health and Social Care Levy

Commons debates

This national insurance increase is a point of no return for the Tories. It is an unfair way to raise the money needed for our NHS and social care, with those who earn the least and the young...

Pensions Update

Commons debates

We have become used to the Government’s breaking of manifesto pledges, for instance on overseas aid and a border in the Irish sea, but today we have had two in one day, which is pretty...

Health and Social Care

Commons debates

When I was first elected to this place in 1997, one of the first people who came to see me in my surgery was the wife of a man who had been waiting two years for open heart surgery, and we are...

Afghanistan: FCDO Update

Commons debates

I pay tribute to everyone who worked on the airlift from 15 August. We had 18 months’ notice that this situation would come about, but I have to say to the Foreign Secretary that the...

Travel: Quarantine

Department of Health and Social Care

Clive Efford received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if any outbreaks of newcovid-19 variants have originated from people in quarantine in hotels having just arrived from abroad; and if he...

Colombia: Protests

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful for that answer, but the truth is that the UK Government are providing extensive training and support to Colombian police, despite evidence of extensive police brutality, with up to...

Colombia: Protests

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent discussions he has had with the Colombian Government on the policing of protests and incidents of violence against protesters in that country.

International Travel Rules

Commons debates

Infection rates are at their highest since January, and the Health Secretary has said that he expects a spike following the relaxation of regulations today. So how can it be responsible of the...

Topical Questions

Housing, communities and local government

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

Rather than create a developer’s opportunity to provide slum living accommodation through the relaxation of permitted development rights, why does the Secretary of State not force...

Health and Care Bill

Commons debates

Our NHS is built on the values that Britain holds dear: each of us is equal, and we will be treated on the basis of our need, never on our ability to pay. It is part of our national heritage, so...