In Parliament - Andy Slaughter

Legal Aid for Inquests - [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to be here under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mrs Main. To be fair to the Minister, as I always try to be, the issue is not a new one, and has not appeared on her watch. I...

Legal Aid for Inquests - [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The Government seem to rely on this point about the inquisitorial process, so one must ask why, if the family does not need representation, the various state bodies always need to be lawyered up....

Housing

Commons debates

On no issue save housing is the chasm more evident between the platitudes we heard from the Dispatch Box and the reality that MPs experience every week in their constituencies. One in seven homes...

Loan Charge

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech and is capturing the mood on both sides of the House. Over 200 people in my constituency are affected by the loan charge, and the situation is...

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Commons debates

Will the Home Secretary look at the case of my constituent who has been refused an exceptional hardship payment, which she wants so she can visit her 95-year-old mother with dementia and her...

Leaving the European Union - [James Gray in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I cannot compete with my hon. Friend—Hammersmith has only 22,346 signatories, although that is 30% of my constituents. However, I must observe that even New Forest East, whose hon. Member...

Leaving the European Union - [James Gray in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way, but that was a bit of sophistry that we have just heard. Six million people—an extraordinary number—signed this petition as...

Leaving the European Union - [James Gray in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend mentions what happened last Friday afternoon. It is extraordinary that Parliament was closed down in the middle of the afternoon and our staff were sent home. I was with a party of...

Drugs Independent Review

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the independent review of drugs led by Professor Dame Carol Black will make an assessment of drug use and access to treatment for...

Business of the House

Commons debates

In a throwaway line during Health questions on Tuesday, the Health Secretary withdrew the Government’s threat to demolish Charing Cross Hospital after seven years. We have been partying in...

Sleeping Rough

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to improve access to drug and alcohol treatment services for people sleeping rough.

Sleeping Rough

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of drug and alcohol treatment services for people sleeping rough.

Sleeping Rough

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people sleeping rough have a co-occurring mental health and substance use problem.

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

“Shaping a healthier future” was the biggest hospital closure programme in the history of the NHS, with the loss of two major hospitals, including Charing Cross in my constituency. It...

Knife Crime - [Sir Graham Brady in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend shows a lot of compassion and understanding. I do not advocate a soft approach; on the contrary, we need rigour in the system, but not the knee-jerk reaction that we will suddenly...

Knife Crime - [Sir Graham Brady in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. We were here just a few weeks ago debating this subject, and indeed knife crime has come up regularly—we had...

Emergency Summit on Knife Crime

Commons debates

Two weeks ago, my constituent Ayub Hassan, 17, was knifed to death in West Kensington, and last week Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was stabbed to death in Fulham. I have known Ayub’s mum,...

Gaza Border Deaths: Unhrc Inquiry

Commons debates

The UK mission to the UN in seeking to explain the extension this morning says: “It is a source of great concern that, since 30th March 2018, over 23,000 Palestinians have been injured and...

European Council: Article 50 Extension

Commons debates

I am tempted to ask the Minister what he had for breakfast this morning, as that might be a question he can answer. His performance is emblematic of the shambolic lack of preparedness over this...

Trade Agreements: Israel

Department for International Trade

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

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what provisions there are in the Trade and Partnership Agreement between the UK Government and the Government of Israel for monitoring the...