In Parliament - Andy Slaughter

Legal Aid: Post-Implementation Review

Commons debates

May I ask the Lord Chancellor two things? First, will he use his considerable influence to get us a whole-day debate on these reviews? The Act took about a year to get through. We have had three...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

My hon. Friend, who opened the debate brilliantly, is summing it up brilliantly. I am afraid that I heard the Minister read out a prepared speech that just seemed to say that everything is going...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Buck. I know you would be speaking on the issue if you were not chairing, and I congratulate you again on the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Again, I cannot fault what the hon. Gentleman is saying about social housing. It is what all the homelessness charities are urging on us. I just hope that he can have some influence on the...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I do not disagree with the point the hon. Gentleman is making. Would he like to comment on the opinion of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government that the Mayor of...

Windrush Scheme

Commons debates

Before the Windrush scandal became the Windrush scandal, many cases took years to resolve and victims disappeared because they feared deportation. To avoid future injustice, will the Secretary of...

Immigration: EU Nationals

Ministry of Justice

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legal aid will be available for (a) applications and (b) appeals in relation to the EU settlement scheme.

Industrial Health and Safety

Department for Work and Pensions

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research the Health and Safety Executive is undertaking to better understand the effect of polluted air on the health of outdoor workers.

Industrial Health and Safety

Department for Work and Pensions

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to protect outdoor workers from the potential ill-health effects of long-term exposure to...

Ali Hajji and Naji Fateel

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Andrew Slaughter received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2018 to Question 192801 and with reference to the oversight bodies’ reported...

Topical Questions

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

We had two debates in the Chamber last week on dangerous cladding, which shows the incompleteness of the Government’s response. Can we have a comprehensive strategy from the Government this...

Knife Crime - [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I do not disagree—some pretty horrific things are available, and they tend to make the headlines—but the most common weapons are kitchen knives, because they are so readily available....

Knife Crime - [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a pleasure and a privilege to speak under your chairmanship, Ms Buck—particularly about a subject on which you have done so much good work. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Minister address one specific point? We have seen the conversion of a lot of office buildings for residential use, which the Government have been promoting for some time under the...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

I will not be tempted into a wider debate, except to say to the Minister that it depends very much on the circumstances. Sometimes it is a matter of choice, and many high-rise buildings offer...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

Absolutely; and if the Minister did not like us quoting commercial companies in this way, perhaps he will listen to the Local Government Association. It continues to strongly urge the Government...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

Returning to the central point, what we all want is the Government to take a comprehensive view of these matters in respect of both existing and new buildings. My understanding is that only a...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful for that “intervention”. I think that the Minister was using me as a kind of Ouija board to communicate with my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon North, but that is fine.

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

I think that the Minister was trying to intervene on an intervention. I am glad to see that he at least has some interest in the subject. I shall make a little progress, and then I will take an...

Fire Safety and Cladding

Delegated Legislation

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend has made a telling point. We will not find things that are wrong unless we go and look for them, and I do not feel that the Government are going to go and look for them.