My Work in Parliament - Pat McFadden Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East

Energy (oil and gas) profits levy

Commons debates

I will tell the hon. Member one thing about taxation: the burden is much higher under this Government than it was under the Government in which I served as a Minister. That mini-Budget was a...

Energy (oil and gas) profits levy

Commons debates

I am grateful for the opportunity to wind up on behalf of the Opposition. I welcome the new Minister to her place and wish her well. I also thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have...

Affordability of Housing: First-time Buyers

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I know that, after 12 years, the Government quite like stealing our ideas, such as the windfall tax and the energy price freeze, so let me offer a suggestion. High deposit demands, increased...

Affordability of Housing: First-time Buyers

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The consequences of September’s disastrous mini-Budget continue to be felt, as we will see in the autumn statement on Thursday—the third Budget statement in two months from the...

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker, the motion that the House has just passed, with no opposition from the Government, “calls on the Government to publish the Office for Budget...

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is right. In fact, the only discussion on the Conservative Benches is about how to do precisely that. We cannot believe anything the Prime Minister says. Only seven days ago, she...

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth

Commons debates

We have never argued that there was no need for borrowing. The point we made was that much more of this could be funded by a windfall tax. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that that is some sort of...

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth

Commons debates

I am pleased to conclude the debate on behalf of the Opposition. I welcome the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury to his position. His colleague the Exchequer Secretary is an old-timer: she has...

Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure

Ministry of Defence

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of exchange rate movements between the pound and the US dollar on foreign exchange costs incurred by...

Mortgage Rates and the Bank of England

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

This morning, the Bank of England made a further intervention in the markets, warning of “a material risk to UK financial stability”. That risk comes directly from the...

Mortgage Rates and the Bank of England

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

With your permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to send my condolences to the families of all those killed in the tragic accident in Creeslough, County Donegal, last week. My parents came from quite...

Department for Education: Pay

Department for Education

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) direct employees, (b) contractors, and (c) agency workers who work in her Department and relevant agencies and public bodies, receive a...

Department for International Trade: Pay

Department for International Trade

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) direct employees, (b) contractors, and (c) agency workers who work in their Department and relevant agencies and public bodies,...

Efficiencies and Value for Money Committee

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the responsibilities of the Domestic and Economic (Efficiency and Value for Money) Committee include identifying savings in respect of civil...

Home Office: Pay

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) direct employees, (b) contractors, and (c) agency workers who work in their Department and relevant agencies and public bodies,...

Public Sector: Workplace Pensions

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who officials in his Department have consulted in the development of its response to the consultation on the methodology used to set the SCAPE discount rate.

Credit: Regulation

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings officials in his Department have had with representatives of buy now pay later businesses.

Credit: Regulation

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many responses his Department has received to its consultation on the regulation of buy now pay later.

Capital Markets: Regulation

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a timeline for taking forward reforms to the UK’s financial services regulatory framework for capital markets.

Cash Dispensing

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what industry stakeholders his Department met with in advance of the announcement in the Queen's Speech 2022 that the Government will bring forward...