Clive in Parliament - Clive Efford

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Commons debates

The Minister has mentioned several times consultation by the boundary commissions, but if their scope is limited by a plus or minus 5% variation in the size of constituencies, local communities...

Covid-19 Response

Commons debates

The Government have promised to carry out routine testing in care homes, yet my local authority tells me that there is a shortage of the home-test kits needed to do that and fears that such kits...

Coronavirus: Disease Control

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, on how many occasions the Government has decided not to follow the advice of its medical and scientific advisers on how to tackle...

Exercise Cygnus

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 he will (a) list the recommendations made by Exercise Cygnus in 2016, (b) set out those recommendations that have been implemented by...

Covid-19

Commons debates

This would be a difficult situation for any Government, but there are questions that must be answered and lessons that must be learned if we are to come out of lockdown safely. The large number...

Covid-19: DWP Update

Commons debates

It cannot be fair that families on the benefit cap are not benefiting from the uprating of payments that has happened during this crisis. The Resolution Foundation has predicted that, in over two...

Colombia: Politics and Government

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations she has made to her Colombian counterpart on support for the transitional justice mechanisms of the...

Colombia: Armed Conflict

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the activity of (a) the Gaitanista Self-Defence Forces (AGC) in the Colombian department of...

PPE Shortages: Profiteering

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

That is a disappointing answer. The problem has been exacerbated by the Government’s failure to stockpile PPE. There are numerous examples of people exploiting this situation, so it will...

PPE Shortages: Profiteering

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps he is taking to ensure that businesses do not profiteer from shortages of personal protective equipment in the health and social care sector.

Business of the House

Commons debates

The Leader of the House is responsible for protecting the rights of Members of Parliament as well as being part of the Government. Earlier, he mentioned the need to have regular statements here...

Coronavirus: Employment Support

Commons debates

After six and a half weeks, when we knew we might reach this stage, it is hard to understand why the Government have no idea what they are going to do to pay the wages of those who are being laid...

Covid-19: Access to House of Commons

House of Commons Commission

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

I tabled this question when there were rumours that Parliament would be closed and that we might not be invited back after the recess. Things have now moved rapidly beyond that, and we have to...

Covid-19: Access to House of Commons

House of Commons Commission

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission plans to further restrict access to the House of Commons in response to...

Educational Settings

Commons debates

We have 48 hours before schools close, and we have no clear list of who is going to be able to send their children to school next week or after the Easter holidays. We have known for several...

Economic Update

Commons debates

The notes that have been handed out from the Vote Office tonight say “Statement to the Press”, not to the House of Commons. I do not think there is any difference between what the...

Covid-19

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. We all appreciate the work and the efforts of the Secretary of State for Health and his attempts to answer our questions this evening, but there were questions...

Covid-19

Commons debates

We need a plan for scaling back schools. Teachers are saying to me that they are part of a mass collection of people every day and are concerned not only about being infected but about relatives...

Road Network National Policy Statements: Climate Change Commitments

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

Does not the decision on Heathrow demonstrate that the Government need to upgrade their statements in the light of climate change, otherwise there is a danger that their massive expansion of road...

Road Network National Policy Statements: Climate Change Commitments

Clive Efford made a speech in the House of Commons

Whether he plans to make road network national policy statements compatible with the UK’s commitments on climate change.