Speeches by Eshalomi.

“I thank the Secretary of State for her statement, and am pleased to hear that this will be a thorough and meaningful consultation, because even though my constituency is not near the airport, my constituents in Camberwell, Stockwell and Brixton write to me regularly to say that they are suffering from air and noise pol…”

“I associate myself with the remarks of the Prime Minister on the awful attack in Manchester and the attack in Peacehaven. I want to highlight the issue of aid workers and the work of UNRWA with many British aid organisations including Oxfam, and Christian Aid and Islamic Relief, which are both based in my constituency.…”

“13. What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Climate Change Committee’s 2025 report entitled “Progress in reducing emissions”.”

“I welcome the Minister to her place—it is good to see her among the line of men on the Treasury Bench. I have just finished chairing a meeting of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. One issue that we discussed was decent home standards. Emissions from homes is another key area that we need to bear …”

“I welcome the Secretary of State and his Ministers to their positions. I very much look forward to welcoming them to meetings of the Select Committee; we are a fair and robust Committee. The Minister highlighted the inter-ministerial group, which the former Secretary of State chaired and saw as being very important. Th…”

“I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and agree with her that anyone seeking to divide us will only unite us. I join hon. Members in paying tribute to both Melvin and Adrian’s families. I refer the Home Secretary to the comments from my hon. Friend the Member for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Mike Kane) about looki…”

“First and foremost, I want to acknowledge the many victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s appalling abuse. For many of them, this story is not a political one; it is a personal one. No one could fail to be moved by listening to the brother and sister on the news this Sunday in their first interview in the UK, with the void that …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for making her point. I think about the amount of abuse that many parliamentarians in this Chamber sadly face—particularly black and minority ethnic Members—just for their mere existence. I know about the horrific domestic abuse that my hon. Friend has faced, and I hope that, with time, the Labou…”

“My hon. Friend knows that one of the busy floating bus stops in my constituency is right outside St Thomas’ hospital, which I will confess I have had a few bumps on. She and I did oppose its introduction. Does she agree that all floating bus stops should be reviewed, so that when patients are going to important sites s…”

“I thank the Minister for outlining the strongest condemnation of the attacks and the blatant disregard for Qatar’s sovereignty. I refer the House to my registered interests, as I visited Qatar last year and spoke to Ministers there. I saw how diligently they are working, day in and day out, to secure the ceasefire and …”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that by getting this right and ensuring that we have bus stops that are accessible for everybody, including partially sighted people and disabled people, we will encourage more people to use public transport, because they will feel that it is safe and accessible for them?”

“I thank the Minister for his response to the urgent question, but I concur with some of the comments from my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Ms Creasy) about people being arrested, including my constituents, some of whom were protesting peacefully. I want to come back to the issue of the impact on frontline pol…”

“I thank the Minister for outlining the Government’s work to maintain vital collection services for residents, who want to see their city cleaned up rather than another summer of this, given the recent heatwave. Strike action has now passed the six-month mark. As the Minister just outlined, it is important that we consi…”

“So are those families, Prime Minister— The Prime Minister—there is no desire in Government for this to take any longer than it needs to take to be done effectively and properly.”

“—for the homeless. Everyone is chasing the same ones.”

“That’s good. It would be good to know when we can expect to see some of those changes and the extra investment.”

“On that point, Prime Minister, every homeless child means a child missing school, a child missing out on the vital and welcome breakfast clubs that your Government have committed to, and a child or adult missing out on the extra hospital appointments because they do not have a safe and secure home to go to. We are seei…”

“But you might have seen that the number of starts is quite low. We are not building those houses quickly enough, so we will see more people, more children, in poverty. We cannot build our way out of this crisis, so in the interim, what more can the Government do to help alleviate that poverty?”

“As you may be aware, one of the issues is that a number of landlords, including local authorities, are saying that they are struggling with the funding and enforcement to carry out the necessary checks. We know that the courts have a backlog of residents bringing forward those cases. Prime Minister, as a lawyer, you kn…”

“You will recall that the last time we met, I asked you about the Government’s decision to freeze the local housing allowance. Coming back to the issue of child poverty, this is an area that is keeping many children and their families in poverty: they cannot afford the rent. Recent data from the Local Government Associa…”