In Parliament - Dr Rupa Huq MP

European Council

Commons debates

As someone who is not a member of the DUP or the ERG or from a leave-voting seat, I thank the Prime Minister for the “Dear colleague” letter she sent me, which includes the offer of a...

Garden Bridge: Funding

Forensic Science Regulator Bill

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister is detailing all the different reports, but we need one now that we have the final winding-up costs and the final bill. Those reports are historical. This looks like another white...

Garden Bridge: Funding

Forensic Science Regulator Bill

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Does the Minister think that the £3 million a year running costs being financed by events on the bridge was a good model? Does he agree that that would have been doing things the wrong way...

Garden Bridge: Funding

Forensic Science Regulator Bill

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who, until his elevation to the Front Bench, was a fellow member of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, where we address these things...

Garden Bridge: Funding

Forensic Science Regulator Bill

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

It has been a busy week for us all at work, with the intractable impasse of Brexit preoccupying most, but life goes on outside this unsolvable Rubik’s cube. I want to draw attention to a...

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Internet

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that stakeholders of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman who raise questions on the Ombudsman's service...

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Internet

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that the minutes of all quarterly Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman meetings are displayed clearly on their...

Teaching and Support Staff: Recruitment and Retention

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

I was back for assembly at my alma mater, Montpelier Primary School, this morning. It is an outstanding school, but it is coming under pressure from churn, with Brexit moving parents’ jobs...

Teaching and Support Staff: Recruitment and Retention

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the levels of (a) pay and (b) workload on the recruitment and retention of teaching and support staff.

Charity Regulation

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Some £43 million of public money going on a bridge across the Thames on which zero construction occurred has led us all up the garden path and now we know that the trust is being wound up....

Charity Regulation

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps he is taking to help increase public trust in charity regulation.

EU Exit Preparations: Ferry Contracts

Commons debates

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the £33 million for something that never materialised—the phantom ferry contract—is not dissimilar to the £30 million that the Secretary...

School Funding - [Sir David Crausby in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend speaks with great experience on these matters. She reminds me of my own experience at East Acton Primary School, which I visited on Friday. In London, there are not just...

Leaving the European Union

Commons debates

The Prime Minister says that she wants to unite the nation and this House, and she has again presented us today with her deal, no deal or no Brexit. Her deal faced the biggest ever defeat in this...

Macpherson Report: 20TH Anniversary

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman is making some moving points about bias and discrimination. Does he agree that unconscious bias can be something that people have not thought of, that it needs stamping on, in...

Cancer

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming workforce implementation plan will include an assessment of the merits of the findings of the Health Education...

Elephants: Animal Welfare

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs, whether the Government is taking steps to discourage tourism from the UK to (a) Myanmar, (b) Sri Lanka and (c) other...

Revenue and Customs: Ealing

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cumulative length of service is of all the HMRC staff at International House, Ealing, who are at risk of redundancy as a result of the closure of...

Santander Closures and Local Communities - [Philip Davies in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Rupa Huq made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

The hon. Gentleman talks about internet transactions and shrivelling high streets. Does he agree that another solution for the Government is to look at business rate reform? The transitional...

Santander Closures and Local Communities - [Philip Davies in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Rupa Huq made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about the insensitivity of the one-size-fits-all letter that everyone was sent. We are losing two branches in my seat—not only in Acton High Street,...

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