In Parliament - Andy Slaughter

Hammersmith Bridge: Restoration Funding

Commons debates

I am in a state of despair, listening to the Minister. The cost of reopening this bridge could be £160 million. Hopefully, it will be less, but it is of that order. It is about the same as...

Hammersmith Bridge: Restoration Funding

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, particularly in drawing attention to the fact that the closure of Hammersmith bridge is having a sub-regional and regional effect. It is much wider...

Serious Fraud Office: Resignations

Attorney General

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

To ask the Attorney General, how many applications have been submitted to the Advisory Committee on Public Appointments by civil servants regarding the business roles they intend to take up after...

Bill of Rights

Commons debates

This morning, the distinguished legal commentator, Joshua Rozenberg, summed up this Bill not as the biggest constitutional tour de force in more than 300 years or the apex of the Justice...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

My constituent faces losing her job with the NHS and is unable to visit a seriously ill close relative abroad because the Home Office has failed to deal with her visa, which was requested last...

Sharing Economy: Short-term Letting

Commons debates

The hon. Lady is right to emphasise both the scale and the commercial nature of the problem; a lot of people think it is marginal when, in fact, in some areas it is endemic. Last week, I talked...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s comments, because he is going through the practical steps that need to be taken rather more methodically than I am. I accept his concentration on getting...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

I will allow one more intervention. I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s speech arrived late, so I am letting him deliver it paragraph by paragraph.

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

I agree that we need safer systems and that we need to plan. There has been a free-for-all for too long in the building industry, where there has been a gold rush to acquire sites and build...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

I could not agree more. The truth is that the Government have put it in the “too difficult” column, along with other things. It is not that they have an argument for why they do not...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

Most of these buildings are in the planning process, and some have been withdrawn and resubmitted, as I hope is the case with this one. Fifty-five storeys and a single staircase is the proposal...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

Again, I entirely agree. Every month, more comes to light. That is true in my constituency, as I am sure it is in other Members’ constituencies. I am dealing with one case at the moment...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

I very much thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention; he has put it very clearly and succinctly. I started with cladding and insulation—I have quite a long list—because that is...

Grenfell Tower: Fifth Anniversary

Commons debates

When I think of Grenfell, which I often do, I think first of the people who died; not just that they died—72 people, including 18 children—but how they died. I forced myself to read...

Private Rented Sector

Commons debates

It would be good to see some security restored to the private rented sector, 35 years after a Conservative Government introduced no-fault eviction, but housing in the UK also has a crisis of...

Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

Commons debates

Answer the question!

Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

Commons debates

As Home Secretary, the right hon. Lady has a responsibility to uphold the rule of law. She cannot only approve of courts when they make decisions in her favour. Will she take this opportunity to...

Health and Social Care: Leadership and Management

Health and Social Care

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

Operose Health is one of the biggest employers in the primary care sector. When it bought up 70 surgeries across England, including in Hammersmith and Fulham, the Government were warned that this...

Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda

Commons debates

How can the Minister say Rwanda is a safe country when 12 refugees protesting about cuts to food rations were shot dead by security forces in 2018? It is not lawyers, but courts that are finding...

Violence against Women and Girls: Prosecutions

Attorney General

Andrew Slaughter made a speech in the House of Commons

May I add my welcome to our friends from Ukraine? In January, the Attorney General told the House: “This Government take tackling domestic abuse and hate crime extremely...