Work and Pensions Select Committee
The Work and Pensions Select Committee questioned the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions…
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Prime Ministers Questions
The Government has been in denial about the scale of homelessness in our country. Shockingly,…
Urgent question – Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Government is ending the ban on evictions introduced due to Covid and is axing…
The Restrictions of Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020
Today I spoke and voted against these regulations. The BMA represents NHS workers and is…
View from Westminster
View from Westminster: ‘COVID, Brexit – Johnson and his incompetent team’
Centrica is making a profit but still trying to slash workers’ rights
Centrica is making a profit but still trying to slash workers’ rights and pass costs…
Today the Government responded to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the Department for Work and Pensions’s response to the coronavirus outbreak
Today the Government responded to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the Department…
Podcast with Rethink Mental Illness
Mental health law is being revised soon. I had a chat with Louise from the…
View from Westminster
View from Westminster: My Jamaica Road office is back in business
In My View
View from Westminster
View from Westminster: Incompetent decisions and terrible consequences of government’s ‘callous’ COVID response
Ministers should be fixing Universal Credit, not glossing over its huge problems
Instead of listening to the people affected and the organisations supporting them the DWP seems…
The DWP is still requiring people seeking urgent help to wait a minimum of 5 weeks for any support
The Dept for W&P is still requiring people seeking urgent help to wait a minimum…
All Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness meets
I co-chaired a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness. We discussed…
Challenging the Home Secretary on the ‘fundamentally racist’ NRPF policy
I challenged the ‘fundamentally racist’ Government policy yesterday and the Home Secretary didn’t even dispute…
Meeting with Southbank and Waterloo Partnership
Whilst the £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts is welcome there is still much…
Meeting with CitizensUK to tackle NRPF
Today I met with representatives from CitizensUK – to discuss how we can work together…
Calling for investment in Southwark
Bakerloo and Broadband – just two of my calls for investment in ‘shovel ready’ projects…
Housing rough sleepers with No Recourse to Public Funds
Under the ‘Everyone In’ scheme Ministers told councils to get all rough sleepers off the…
𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗦 ‘𝗦𝗨𝗕-𝗢𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗟’ 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘!
During the pandemic many people were trapped abroad and I’ve helped them contact UK embassies.…
𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗘𝗬
Months into this pandemic there are sadly still people from Southwark stranded abroad. I used…
View From Westminster June
No Recourse to Public Funds has long stoked division and hostility — now it’s leaving families destitute in a pandemic
No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) are a blight on our country’s reputation and represent…
Child poverty in Southwark
The Government’s own statistics show that there has been a 600,000 rise in the number…
Department of International Development Merger
Not content with reducing our global standing through Brexit and his terrible handling of the…