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

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: ICT

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which non-departmental public bodies sponsored by her Department are using legacy IT system which are no longer receiving updates from...

Risk and Resilience: Annual Statement

Commons debates

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. He is right that resilience is a critical function for the Government, local government, public services, business and society...

Foreign Secretary: Declarations of Interest

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I want to ask about an angle of the matter mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh). The Foreign Secretary received fulsome praise from the China Harbour...

Foreign Secretary: Declarations of Interest

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I welcome my old friend and sparring partner, the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen), to his post. Questions have been raised about whether all benefits in kind received by the Foreign...

National Security: Procurement

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

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the planned timeline is for implementing the National Security Unit for Procurement within his Department; and who will be responsible for leading...

Offensive Weapons: Regulation

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government response to the Consultation on new knife legislation proposals to tackle the use of machetes and other...

Topical Questions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Secretary of State. I can only say to him that the hair may go but the skin remains the same, so in solidarity I wish him well in the current heat. It is reported that Mr Khalife...

Topical Questions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I begin by associating myself with the Secretary of State’s comments on marking the anniversary of the death of the late Queen. The responsibilities of the Cabinet Office include the...

Offensive Weapons: Sales

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled Government bans machetes and zombie knives, published by her Department on 30 August 2023,...

Immigration Controls

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled New Plan for Immigration Sovereign Borders Programme, published 22 May 2022, what...

Offensive Weapons: Sales

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's proposals to ban the online sale of machetes and other bladed weapons published on 30 August 2023 includes banning...

Public Sector Pay

Commons debates

I thank the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for the advance copy of his statement. Let me begin by praising the efforts of our NHS staff, teachers, police officers and members of the armed...

Mortgage and Rental Costs

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

We are not going to join the chorus of Government Members attacking the Bank of England. I thought the hon. Gentleman was rising to raise the issue of the 15,000 households in his constituency...

Mortgage and Rental Costs

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank everyone who has contributed to this afternoon’s debate. I cannot help noticing that the vast majority of them are Opposition Members, so I thank my hon. Friends the Members for...

Growth Plan of 23 September 2022 and Cost of Mortgages

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

Back to 2023. This is a real crisis, affecting real people as a result of the real decisions of the Minister’s Government. Figures out today show that the average UK tenant is spending more...

Growth Plan of 23 September 2022 and Cost of Mortgages

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The only thing that grew as a result of what the Government did last September was people’s mortgage payments. Two-year fixed rates are now more than 6%, and payments for householders are...

Mortgage Market

Commons debates

The UK’s homeowners are under increasing financial stress, with two-year fixed rates at 5.86%—up by over 0.5% in just a month—products being withdrawn, and the Resolution...

Mortgage Market

Commons debates

(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of developments in the mortgage market in recent days.

Treasury: Economic Analysis

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 list of the policies announced by His Majesty’s Opposition since 4 April 2020 in respect of which officials in his Department...

Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Freezing of Assets

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 breakdown by quantity and type of the Russian Central Bank assets frozen assets in the UK.