Clive in Parliament - Clive Efford

Skills for Jobs White Paper

Commons debates

The Secretary of State has spoken passionately about the sector, but that is simply not borne out by what has happened over the past 10 years, which has been a story of cuts and lack of...

UK Musicians: EU Visa Arrangements

Commons debates

This morning, the UK music industry told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that despite being 1% of the world’s population, the UK produces 10% of its music. This industry has...

Public Health

Commons debates

I will support these measures, but I regret the need to implement them. The public are weary of the Government’s U-turns, dither and delay at crucial moments throughout this pandemic, when...

Education: Return in January

Commons debates

If Greenwich schools are included in one of the contingency areas, I hope the Secretary of State will have the decency to apologise to parents in our borough. With that in mind, if mass testing...

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

What information has the Secretary of State received from the experts in the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies about the roles that schools played in the spread of infection in places...

Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement

Commons debates

Council tax increases have become a stealth tax for this Government. Council tax now makes up 60% of core spending in local authorities—up from 49% just five years ago. Does the Secretary...

Online Harms Consultation

Commons debates

I welcome the legislation as far as it goes, and agree with the Secretary of State that it is landmark legislation, rather like the Gambling Act 2005, which was put through the House by the...

Gambling and Lotteries

Commons debates

In my experience, in the past the gambling industry has been able to exert a great deal of influence over the Minister’s Department. I welcome his commitment to an evidence-based review,...

Home Care Services: Coronavirus

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, what assessment he has made of the level of risk to disabled people of infection with covid-19 from domiciliary care workers who visit...

Courts and Tribunals: Recovery

Commons debates

We have 30% fewer criminal legal aid firms than in 2010, and a quarter of those have disappeared in the past year alone. The criminal legal aid review is not due to be published until the end of...

Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention

Commons debates

Debenhams workers have expressed concern about the performance of the administrators. There has been a lack of communication and delays in registering redundancies with the redundancy payments...

Football Governance - [Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I deliberately focused on the need for change in governance rather than rehashing and dwelling on all the arguments about the financial state of clubs. As the shadow Minister, my hon. Friend the...

Football Governance - [Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

In the review that the Minister talks about, where does the strategic review that has been announced by the Premier League sit? It said that it is going to be drafted by its executive and voted...

Football Governance - [Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I do not entirely agree with the hon. Member’s version of the events around Bury. I think the Football League would have taken action against individuals involved in Bury if it had the...

Football Governance - [Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered the future of football governance. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Fovargue. There is nothing new about a debate in this place...

Leaseholders and Cladding

Commons debates

It is a disgrace that three and a half years on, people still do not know whether the properties they live in are safe, and others cannot sell because they cannot get external wall system...

Covid-19: Winter Plan

Commons debates

Local authorities have stepped up to the plate to tackle covid in their areas, but they are facing additional costs from local track and trace, while losing income from taxes and fees. Will the...

Sport Sector: Financial Support

Commons debates

There are many volunteer-led, grassroots sports clubs that are really struggling at this moment in time, and equally there are probably a number of would-be developers that are looking at...

Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary Scrutiny

Commons debates

Is it not true that the Government have just overstated the ease with which they would be able to do all this? We were going to have 40 trade deals on 29 March 2019, and we were going to have a...

International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace - [Clive Efford in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I do not intend to read out all the instructions because there are not so many of us in the Room that we are over-spilling the horseshoe. Please clean your microphones and the area around them...