In Parliament - Rupa Huq MP

High Street Outlets

Business and Trade

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The vanishing of Debenhams, Wilko and Paperchase has left huge holes in our town centres— I have lost a Wilko in both Ealing and Acton. Analysis shows that the incentivisation of...

High Street Outlets

Business and Trade

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps she is taking to encourage businesses to open outlets on high streets.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Area

Westminster Hall debates

Order. The Clerk is telling me that the shadow Minister should be reaching a conclusion, in order to allow the actual Minister to speak and the response at the end by the Member who secured the...

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Area

Westminster Hall debates

A word of warning: we will take the three Front Benchers at 5.10 pm, so if everyone’s speeches remain within six and a half minutes, everyone will get in comfortably.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Area

Westminster Hall debates

I remind hon. Members to bob even if they are out of practice.

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I wanted to leave time for Jonathan Gullis—I will not repeat that joke for the third time—to conclude.

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Order. Before we get into too much of a ding-dong, the Clerk is reminding me that the normal time has been exceeded. I know we are not up to the hour, but the Minister would usually be doing his...

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Just call them the Labour party and depersonalise it.

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Order. I am sure the Minister did this inadvertently, but we are always told to be very tough on people who keep saying “you”, as that is technically me. So just de-you it.

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

In which case, earlier than expected, it is that moment: Jim Shannon.

Apprenticeship Levy - [Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I remind hon. Members to bob now if they want to be called, so we can work out who will speak.

Animal Welfare: Registration

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, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to establish an offenders' registry for the perpetrators of animal cruelty.

Special Educational Needs: Admissions

Department for Education

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effects of long waiting lists of schools that are specialised for Special Educational Needs children on...

Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

In the light of Pakistan’s brutal crackdown on undocumented and temporary visa-bearing Afghan refugees and its forcible deportation of those people back to Afghanistan, can the Minister...

Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps he is taking to support Afghan citizens who are eligible for the Afghan relocations and assistance policy.

Drinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances

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, what steps she is taking to prevent the presence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water.

Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice

Commons debates

After 13 years of Tory austerity, what a thin King’s Speech it was from a Government who are out of touch and out of ideas, and hopefully soon out of office. They promise change by wheeling...

Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice

Commons debates

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. We used to have happy times on the Justice Committee together when we were little striplings. What he is saying sounds good, but my...

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, what her Department's planned timescale is for bringing forward legislative measures from the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill.

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Commons debates

The new Foreign Secretary called Gaza an open-air prison in peacetime. While we all stood with Israel on 7 October, what are the limits of self-defence—a population forcibly displaced by...

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