In Parliament - Ben Bradshaw MP

Gender Recognition

Commons debates

Well, Madam Deputy Speaker, not wishing to be upstaged by the ex-Home Secretary, the Minister whose job it is to defend vulnerable minorities chooses to make her first statement this year in the...

Middle East: UK Military Deployments

Commons debates

How can the Secretary of State reassure me that the defence resources and attention now been focused on the middle east will not in any way reduce what we are able to commit to in support of our...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Ben Bradshaw made a speech in the House of Commons

Given that obesity now costs the NHS and our economy much more than smoking, why does the Secretary of State support a total ban on smoking but think that measures to tackle obesity are nannyish?

Question

Department of Health and Social Care

Ben Bradshaw received a response to a question they put to the government

What steps she is taking to reduce NHS waiting times.

Legal Migration

Commons debates

The Home Secretary has admitted several times that we are losing people from the health and social care sector, both domestic workers and people whom the Government have brought in, but he has...

Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

Commons debates

Palestinians have lost all hope of a two-state solution thanks to the policies of the Netanyahu Government in recent years. Would it not give them some hope if we followed other countries’...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Thank you once again, Mr Sharma, for stepping into the breach, rushing over here to save this important debate. As I said at the beginning, the fact that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

You can’t be old enough!

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The hon. Lady just touched on an important point, which I omitted from my speech for time reasons. One of the great damages caused by section 28 at the time of the AIDS pandemic was that it...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I take the hon. Member’s point, but parents already have such powers. I gently make the following point back to him: a significant proportion of young homeless people are LGBT people who...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. That is the difference a Labour Government make. I am sure some of our SNP colleagues will be making the same point about Scotland a little later. The...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I completely agree, and I will come on to talk a bit more about that in a second. Our first attempt to repeal section 28 in 2000 was thwarted in the House of Lords, but we eventually got it...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

When I became the first openly gay person in Britain to be selected to fight a parliamentary seat more than 27 years ago, my Conservative opponent described being gay as a “sterile,...

Section 28 Repeal: 20th Anniversary - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered the 20th anniversary of the repeal of section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. I can’t tell you how glad we are to see you, Mr Sharma....

Ukraine

Commons debates

How is it possible that our NATO ally Turkey has seen a more than threefold increase in exports to Russia this year of goods vital for Putin’s war machine, and what are the Minister and our...

Israel and Hamas: Humanitarian Pause

Commons debates

What is the Minister’s understanding and assessment of the Netanyahu Government’s medium and long-term strategy for the Gaza strip?

Question

Department for Transport

Ben Bradshaw received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to implement the recommendation of the APPG on Cycling...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I am sorry to ask the right hon. Lady about this again, because I know she is one of the angels on this matter, but when I asked her last summer about conversion therapy, she promised a draft...

Same-sex Relationships

Church Commissioners

Ben Bradshaw made a speech in the House of Commons

I am sure the vast majority of Members on both sides of the House will warmly welcome the outcome of Synod yesterday, and I thank the hon. Member for the role he played in conveying...

Same-sex Relationships

Church Commissioners

Ben Bradshaw made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent progress has been made on implementing the decisions taken by the General Synod in February 2023 on blessing same-sex relationships and relating to clergy in same-sex relationships.