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

Post-18 Education and Funding Review

Department for Education

Wes Streeting received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish the analysis of graduates that will be net beneficiaries from the proposed changes under the post-18 education and...

Engagements

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

In the event that a Prime Minister asked Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament against the express wishes of the majority of the House of Commons, whose advice would the Queen be obliged...

Free TV Licences: over-75S

Commons debates

I can tell the Secretary of State that Gary Lineker is a lot more popular than the Tories. We have been here before. The Government hiked up council tax to offset Tory cuts in council services....

Post-18 Education and Funding

Commons debates

Like others, I warmly welcome the thrust of the Augar report, which is that we desperately need more funding for further and lifelong learning, not least because, as the report states, adult...

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Commons debates

Will the Minister give way on that point?

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Commons debates

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to talk about the hope and promise of change, how far we have come and how far we still have to go. At a time of rising, rampaging populism across Europe...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

This has been a wide-ranging and largely thoughtful debate, but the critical thing that people will now look to us for is action. We will engage seriously with the Secretary of State, as he has...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. I can say hand on heart that she is speaking with the passion and clarity that I hear in mosques and Muslim community centres in my constituency. I...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I wholeheartedly agree. As shown by the discussion on “Newsnight” last night between myself and a respected imam from Leicester, we can reconcile our way through some of these...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I will give way one final time, and then I must draw my remarks to a conclusion.

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I wholeheartedly agree; that is exactly what we are trying to achieve. The story that is not written or told is about the faith leaders in my community who do not just know the challenge posed by...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

Precisely. Let me make some progress on that point. We toured the length and breadth of the country, engaging in extensive consultation with Muslim communities, academics, lawyers, police...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that powerful point. The Mayor of London and my right hon. Friends the Members for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) and for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I strongly agree. I hope that that point will be taken up by Ministers as they think about this issue carefully in the course of their consultation.

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I raised this with Facebook very recently during a visit to its headquarters in Silicon Valley with the all-party parliamentary group on the...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct. He is respected in this place for his deep knowledge of extremism issues, which is why we invited him to give evidence to our inquiry. The law already...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I strongly agree. I thank my hon. Friend for the work he does in supporting the all-party parliamentary group. I assure him that that kind of attack and that kind of prejudice is very much...

Definition of Islamophobia

Commons debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered the definition of Islamophobia. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for agreeing to this debate and the Government for providing time for us to...

Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission

Commons debates

Like others, I want to congratulate the Government and everyone involved in the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission on making what is a painful anniversary for Tessa’s friends and family a...

Topical Questions

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Access to Work is essential to enabling disabled people to get into employment, but does the Minister recognise that delays with processing applications are causing real difficulty for people,...