Speeches by Berry.
Every Hansard contribution by Siân Berry this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 341–360 of 388 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 25 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting) “Q Those are errors that might be mistaken for fraud, given their outcome of people paying less or— Richard Las: Potentially. But it goes both ways, often. Sometimes people overpay as well. Joshua Reddaway: If you are looking at a particular case, normally the first thing you detect is that it is wrong—the transaction i…” crimeeconomy-jobssocial-care | 266 |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting) “Q To follow up on that point, the Bill is called the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill. Do you feel like there is enough built in to identify and deal with errors? As you say, systemic things may be uncovered that are causing errors or losses that are not in fact fraud. Does that get fed back? Would y…” crimeeconomy-jobssocial-care | 353 |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (First sitting) “Q Were those last two comments more about the effectiveness of the legislation? Alex Rothwell: Yes.” crimeeconomy-jobsfiscal-policy | 16 |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (First sitting) “Yes. Would you care to comment on the eligibility-verification powers more specifically? Alex Rothwell: I can see why there is concern. People have complex lives—perhaps it is not as straightforward as how much capital is in a bank account at a particular time. I think the powers need to be exercised very carefully. I …” crimeeconomy-jobsfiscal-policy | 186 |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (First sitting) “As inquiries, but the difference is that we are talking about routine use. Alex Rothwell: More extensive use.” crimeeconomy-jobsfiscal-policy | 18 |
| 24 Feb 2025 | Social Media Use: Minimum Age “I have met parents from Smartphone Free Childhood, but also young people. This is a big issue in Brighton Pavilion. Has the right hon. Member thought about pushing for the Minister and Members to talk more with young people about where the age limit should lie, rather than trying to come up with a number in the middle …” healtheducationculture-community | 95 |
| 13 Feb 2025 | LGBT+ History Month “I thank the Minister for chairing an excellent roundtable yesterday through the all-party parliamentary human rights group. The key message we heard from human rights campaigners from east Africa and global organisations was that we are experiencing LGBT history right now in the cuts to US Government funding being forc…” culture-communityhealtheducation | 86 |
| 13 Feb 2025 | HIV Testing Week “It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship for the second time this week, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) and the co-chairs of the APPG for all the work that they do. I also echo calls from hon. Members for the funding for global work that is …” healthculture-community | 615 |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Youth Provision: Universal and Targeted Support “Does the hon. Lady agree that the Minister should answer two questions? The first is about the funding and jobs that will flow from the national youth strategy, and the second is about integration. We need a youth chapter in the housing strategy, as Centrepoint has asked for, and to bring its co-production values into …” educationlocal-governmentcrime | 66 |
| 3 Feb 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill “This Bill is, at heart, Conservative legislation left over from the most dark corner of the last Administration, and I have no qualms about opposing it. I will speak against giving it a Second Reading and, alongside my fellow Green Members, will vote against it later. One of the changes that people wanted to see when t…” fiscal-policycrimesocial-care | 637 |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Proportional Representation: General Elections “I associate myself with the comments of many other hon. Members today, and thank the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) for introducing the debate. This debate comes at a crucial time. We are in a world characterised by democratic decline and falling trust in institutions. Without public belief i…” local-government | 465 |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Proportional Representation: General Elections “Yes, exactly. I am describing the different kinds of work that different kinds of Members in the additional member system can do and how that benefits equality and representation. I am not making a party political point at all. I think members from other parties in the London Assembly can give examples of ways in which…” local-government | 151 |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Proportional Representation: General Elections “I will press on, because I have one more point to make. That shows a contrast with the current system for general elections, where people believe that the national politics conversation does not necessarily involve them. We find that millions of people around the country are never canvassed or courted on the doorstep a…” local-government | 278 |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Airport Expansion “I am grateful to you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question, and I thank the Minister for his response. It is vital that Parliament is not sidelined when the Government form new policies, especially policies that could wreck our climate ambitions. Does the Minister understand that expanding London’s airports an…” transportenvironmenteconomy-jobs | 332 |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Airport Expansion “(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will make a statement on Government policy on airport expansion.” transportenvironmenteconomy-jobs | 22 |
| 27 Jan 2025 | Creative Industries “I am late in the debate, and we have a bit of a time limit already, so I will struggle to make all the points I would like to make. I will write to the Minister with any I fail to make—I think he knows what I will be chasing him up on. I want to follow the hon. Members for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) and for Bury North …” culture-communityeconomy-jobseducation | 995 |
| 14 Jan 2025 | Topical Questions “Following up on the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt, will the Secretary of State say when he expects a substantial response to his engagement with the Egyptian Government? Will he confirm that he will not travel to Egypt unless he is confident that he can return with Alaa?” defenceimmigrationother | 50 |
| 17 Dec 2024 | Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report “This is a very harsh statement. It admits wrongdoing but offers a bitter dose of nothing to a generation of women who already faced prejudices and disadvantages in their careers and were caught out by Government decisions. If the Secretary of State will not reconsider her decision despite being urged to do so by Member…” fiscal-policysocial-carecost-of-living | 86 |
| 12 Dec 2024 | LGBT Veterans: Etherton Review “Sorry. Would the Minister be willing to be challenged on those terms in the future? This compensation must bring the full comfort and security in older age that is enshrined in the armed forces covenant. It must bring true justice for the community that was shamed so shamefully. These payments must be looked at again.” defencesocial-care | 55 |
| 12 Dec 2024 | LGBT Veterans: Etherton Review “We have heard some very powerful stories today. It is not every day that my constituency surgeries lead me to well up—I am normally as hard as nails—but I recently had the pleasure of meeting Craig Jones MBE, one of the founders of Fighting With Pride. He talked so powerfully about his own and other veterans’ stories o…” defencesocial-care | 697 |