Parliamentary activity - Paul Blomfield

Immigration Bail

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of not permitting volunteers to accompany refugees and asylum seekers when attending...

Immigration Bail

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the guidance on Reporting and Offender Management Version 4.0, published on 6 May 2022, was amended to include the current guidance on...

Asylum

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of not permitting volunteers to accompany refugees and asylum seekers when attending...

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2021 to Question 172093 on Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, what further progress she has made in her...

National Curriculum Tests

Department for Education

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) educational value and (b) impact on children and schools of proceeding with SATS in the 2021-22 year in...

Foreign National Offender Removal Flights

Commons debates

The Minister will know that in November 2020 the Home Secretary and her team negotiated an agreement with the Government of Jamaica not to remove people who came to the UK under the age of 12,...

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2022 to Question 155695 on Homes for Ukraine Scheme, whether Ukrainians who have...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr Fysh), who made some important points about the need for action now, in recognition of the severity of the crisis we face. I spent...

Northern Ireland Protocol

Commons debates

The Foreign Secretary knows that there were only three ways of protecting Northern Ireland’s special position after Brexit: a land border on the island of Ireland, which we all reject;...

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of Question 155695 on Homes for Ukraine Scheme, whether Ukrainians who have fled Ukraine and been...

Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire

Westminster Hall debates

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way one more time. He talks ambitiously and grandly about the need for investment, and he is absolutely right, but how does he think that sits alongside the...

Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire

Westminster Hall debates

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire

Westminster Hall debates

I am fascinated that the focus of the hon. Member’s speech on bus improvement is on structure. Would he not agree that investment is critical, and therefore that it was deeply regrettable...

Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire

Westminster Hall debates

I am with the hon. Gentleman on the arguments he has mounted so far. However, does he recognise that we had the sort of cheap, reliable, popular and well-used service that he aspires to in South...

Visas: Ukraine

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the conditions are for Ukrainians in the UK on (a) family visas and (b) the Homes for Ukraine Scheme regarding leaving the UK and...

Before Clause 11 - Compliance with the Refugee Convention

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister will recognise that, when we last debated the Bill, the Chair of the Justice Committee, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), pointed out that one...

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether Ukrainians who have fled Ukraine and been granted refugee status in another EU country are still eligible for the...

Nationality and Borders Bill

Commons debates

The Minister says the proposal is to break the business model of people smugglers; he will know that his Department’s own impact assessment said that “evidence supporting the...

Before Clause 117 - Remediation of certain defects

Building Safety Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Royston Smith). I pay tribute to him and to the hon. Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland) for the work that they have...

Before Clause 117 - Remediation of certain defects

Building Safety Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He has, to some degree, covered the concerns that I was going to raise about those people who have exercised the right to manage. Yesterday, in a...