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Jon Trickett made a speech in the House of Commons

Palantir has this week received one of the largest contracts imaginable. The company is based in silicon valley in California. It was established by the CIA and it has continuing links with the...

Lobbying Transparency

Jon Trickett made a speech in the House of Commons

If you are one of the tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises bidding for contracts from the public sector, you will be met with a wall of bureaucratic paperwork designed to...

Lobbying Transparency

Jon Trickett made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps he is taking to increase transparency of lobbying by businesses.

Rates of tobacco products duty

Commons debates

Thank you for your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I will try to be brief. The first point I want to make is that the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary, who spoke at the beginning of this...

Business of the House

Commons debates

The overwhelming majority of people in Yorkshire are proud and patriotic, love their families, and work hard. How can it be, then, that families had to approach food banks 75,000 times last year...

Metropolitan Police: Operational Independence

Commons debates

We all know that many people will be on the march on Saturday. The organisers and participants have told me that they will be participating in ceremonies of remembrance and that their march has...

Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation

Commons debates

As a person of Jewish heritage, I was mortified and horrified by what happened on 7 October, but I did not for one second believe that any Palestinian child anywhere was responsible. Yet the...

British Steel

Commons debates

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the great centres of steelmaking—in our area, there were more than 8,000 jobs in steelmaking, the last time that was counted—but how many jobs will...

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

Commons debates

I do not want to detain the House for too long, but Victor Jara was a great folk hero. He chose to put his particular skills of singing and playing music at the disposal of the people, fighting...

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I have spoken in this House about antisemitism, and I have been the victim of antisemitism, because we have Jewish blood in my family. I have even...

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is of course right. Famously, the Chicago boys, as they became known in Chile, were those in the economics department of the University of Chicago who developed a reactionary...

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

Commons debates

I am grateful to the parliamentary authorities for allowing this debate to take place. It might be said that the events under discussion took place a long time ago, but I am going to argue that...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Can we have a debate in Government time about the requirements on developers to fulfil planning obligations? In Ackworth, the leader of Ackworth parish council, Martin Roberts, took me to the...

Levelling Up

Business and Trade

Jon Trickett made a speech in the House of Commons

Like many hon. Members, during the recess I visited various sites in my constituency, including Langthwaite business park, which is an immensely successful business park with more than 50...

Levelling Up

Business and Trade

Jon Trickett made a speech in the House of Commons

What assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department’s implementation of policies supporting levelling up.

Business of the House

Commons debates

With her legendary attention to detail, no doubt the Leader of the House has seen this morning’s report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies—an authoritative report showing that so...

Work Capability Assessment Consultation

Commons debates

In a key paragraph of his statement, the Secretary of State appears to envisage that he will either remove or reduce the descriptors giving access to benefits for people who have problems with...

Nutrient Neutrality: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

Commons debates

Of course we need more housing, but in my constituency the sewers are over capacity, Victorian and clapped out. I invite the Minister to meet some of the households where in times of heavy rain...

All-party Parliamentary Groups

Commons debates

This has been a fascinating debate—I almost used the word “delay”, but I would not dare to when speaking about the Father of the House. In the few minutes I have, let me try to...

Public Sector Pay

Commons debates

The Minister’s statement proposes that the pay rises offered, which are less than the rate of inflation for every single one of the millions of people who work hard for our public services,...