In Parliament - Dr Rupa Huq MP

Prime Minister: Brussels

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

To ask the Prime Minister, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of air travel by the Prime Minister to Brussels since (a)1 October 2018 and (b) 11 December 2018.

Prime Minister: Brussels

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

To ask the Prime Minister, what estimate she has made of the total emissions created by her flights to Brussels since 1 October 2018.

Leaving the EU

Commons debates

Let us not forget that the fact that the Prime Minister is here at all before us today to explain her plan B, which looks suspiciously like plan A, and the fact that we had a meaningful vote at...

Leaving the EU

Commons debates

Small businesses with no time, energy or resources for no-deal planning are appalled to see the phantom ferry company’s Government contract, the Kent lorry park experiment and the swathes...

[7th Allotted Day]

Points of Order

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Quite a few speakers in this debate referred to the toxic climate outside this place as a result of the entire Brexit issue, so I just wanted to seek your advice...

[7th Allotted Day]

Points of Order

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

I absolutely do. In fact, we must think of all the money that this is racking up—never mind the £39 billion just for the split. We have seen the no-deal notices, one of them...

[7th Allotted Day]

Points of Order

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Seventy-seven days to go and breaking up is hard to do—disentangling ourselves from 45 years of arrangements that touch every aspect of our lives. This is bigger than any piece of...

Renewable Energy

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

As well as the obvious, 31 March sees the end of the export tariff on electricity exported into the grid by solar photovoltaic systems. After that, big firms will end up receiving free...

Renewable Energy

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps he is taking to support new renewable energy technologies.

Universal Credit: Childcare Costs

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Minister ensure that no one else ever suffers the same indignity as Paulette Reid of Acton, a working mum with three kids who, over Christmas, found herself with £10 to her name for...

Topical Questions

International Trade

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Constituents have written to me to say that we should sit over Christmas to get a meaningful deal. That is not going to happen, so let me wish you a very good one, Mr Speaker. Given the pictures...

Topical Questions

International Trade

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

European Council

Commons debates

The Prime Minister is not interested in the will of the people apart from on one day in 2016, and given that her minority Government were the first ever to be found in contempt and that she...

Social Mobility

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The further education sector—famously an engine of social mobility—is now under threat from the insolvency regime that comes in next year. Karen Redhead has turned Ealing, Hammersmith...

International Trade and Development Agency

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether I might seek your advice on this matter. The Home Office has just laid a written statement on an update of the Government’s anti-corruption...

Exiting the European Union: Meaningful Vote

Commons debates

I will not give way because a lot of people want to speak. The Government are crippled by indecision and paralysed by Brexit. Labour was accused of constructive ambiguity when trying to steer a...

Exiting the European Union: Meaningful Vote

Commons debates

We live in unprecedented times. There have been 20 ministerial resignations and many, many more at Parliamentary Private Secretary level, and the Government have been found to be in contempt of...

Exiting the European Union

Commons debates

Nine times, the Prime Minister assured us that there would be no early general election, and still it happened. As recently as this morning her hapless, ever-changing band of Ministers were out...

Local Government Funding

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The 14 million that the UN identified as in poverty in our country are not just in the Hovis adverts of the industrial heartlands, but in leafy west London. How would the Minister advise Ealing...

Local Government Funding

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

Whether his Department has received representations on local authority funding from the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

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