My Latest Parliamentary Appearances - Wes Streeting MP

Below you can find every question, statement and speech I’ve recently given as Ilford North’s MP. I do my best to speak up on the issues that really matter to our community and our country. If you ever want to know where I stand on an issue that matters to you, please feel free to e-mail me at wes.streeting.mp@parliament.uk

Loan Charge

Commons debates

Tax is the price that we all pay for a civilised society. I certainly come from the “pay your bloody taxes” school of thought when it comes to disguised remuneration schemes. With the...

European Council

Commons debates

The Prime Minister has now asked this House several times to vote for her deal. The fact is that if she agreed to put it a confirmatory vote, it would sail through. Is the reason she does not...

Duties in connection with Article 50 extension

European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

The Prime Minister has never sought to compromise. What she has found difficult—and what any Prime Minister would find difficult—is trying to reconcile the broad range of promises...

Duties in connection with Article 50 extension

European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I absolutely do. Let me also say, as a Member of Parliament whose constituency split virtually down the middle, that there is a range of reasons why people voted in the way they did in the...

Duties in connection with Article 50 extension

European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman will be aware from our time together on the Treasury Committee that we knew what the timeline was for the negotiations. What we could not have foreseen was that the Prime...

Duties in connection with Article 50 extension

European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

It really is no good Government Members complaining about the lack of time—the lack of time to debate this Bill or the fact that we are days away from crashing out of the European Union...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I support the business motion and the amendment in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). The House of Commons is in a very unhappy and unsatisfactory...

Business of the House

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman has made it very clear that he does not trust the Prime Minister and he does not trust the Leader of the Opposition. At the next available opportunity, will he give the people...

Business of the House

Commons debates

On the subject of shame and public apologies, I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman might seize this opportunity to apologise for quoting, apparently approvingly, the leader of Germany’s...

United Kingdom’S Withdrawal from the European Union

Commons debates

I am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. She is right to say that she has sacrificed her own position to try to get her deal through. Does she appreciate that in doing so she is asking...

EU Exit Day Amendment

Commons debates

Further to that excellent speech, I point out that it took seven years to organise the two-week London Olympics. Extracting ourselves from the most sophisticated political and economic alliance...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I wholeheartedly agree. With the limited time I have, I wish to say something about the trust that the public have in us as Members of Parliament and in the House of Commons. It is difficult,...

Business of the House

Commons debates

The selection is a matter for the Speaker, as the hon. Lady knows. To be clear, she is right to say that the Government said they would lay out their own path, but when they were asked, by Member...

Business of the House

Commons debates

There is one reason and one reason alone why we are debating this business of the House motion, and that is the vacuum created by the Government through their total lack of leadership in this...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Out of respect for you, Mr Speaker, and for the rules of the House, I will certainly withdraw the word “hypocritical”. However, it was pretty jaw-dropping to hear the Leader of the...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I am grateful to the shadow Leader of the House for giving way. The Leader of the House claimed at the Dispatch Box that she spoke for this House in Government. How can we possibly take that at...

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Business of the House (Today)

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am genuinely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but this is hopeless: he cannot argue against a perfectly sensible amendment, which is reasonable in the circumstances, in the...

Topical Questions

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

In response to the Defence Secretary’s speech to RUSI on 11 February, particularly his remarks about the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth to the South China sea, George Osborne described...

Topical Questions

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Armed Forces Covenant

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to the Minister for his answer to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian (Danielle Rowley), but does he not agree that when 0.01% of the NHS budget is spent on...