Parliamentary activity - Paul Blomfield

Building Safety

Commons debates

I wrote to the Secretary of State over two months ago highlighting the case of a student housing block that had been evacuated, with all tenants relocated, as a result of multiple fire regulation...

Yorkshire: Access to Arts and Culture

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Minister for her answer. She is right to highlight the one-off and capital funding that has been available. That is welcome, but she will know that the key challenges our regional...

Yorkshire: Access to Arts and Culture

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent steps she has taken to improve access to arts and culture in Yorkshire.

Education and Local Government

Commons debates

All resources diverted to mental health will be welcomed, and on that point, I am happy to conclude.

Education and Local Government

Commons debates

My hon. Friend makes a really important point. That was one of the issues that we discussed with the Schools Minister and about which the headteachers from Sheffield felt passionately. I had a...

Education and Local Government

Commons debates

I very much agree with my hon. Friend, but a strategic intervention to address the needs of one company is very different from a generalised further additional subsidy to a carbon-emitting...

Education and Local Government

Commons debates

Let me echo the comments that have been made by colleagues on both sides of the House about the many excellent maiden speeches that we have heard today. Some of those new Members are still here,...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I will explain precisely what I mean by my comments, which echo the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock). The last four years have divided our country...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments, which anticipate a point I was just about to make. He is absolutely right. Throughout this process we have called for alignment on workers’ rights,...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Lady makes an important point, and it came up in Committee. That is why I have pressed Ministers time and again to release their equalities impact assessment of the settled status...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

Well, the Home Office has got form on these things, hasn’t it? Let me explain why I am concerned specifically on this issue. Pre-settled status is intended for those EU citizens who have...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

Yes, three years. Through our new clause 4 we tried to offer a way of giving Parliament the role for which we were elected—and it is the role that my hon. Friend describes—without...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for his kind comments, but also endorse the point he makes, and it has been a constant strand of the discussions over the past two days.

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I take the hon. Gentleman’s point. We had a whole debate around sovereignty in which my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire) made some very astute observations, but...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

It would not be the same debate if I did not. I am happy to do so.

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point that we are a country of nations and regions and I hope, in relation to the comments I was making to Ministers, that in reaching out they will seek...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I will come on to my observations on how we could have gone forward much more successfully as one country in delivering on the mandate of the referendum in 2016, but I think—this reflects...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I very much agree with my hon. Friend. It is a difficult moment for many, and I will come on specifically to some of the issues involving EU nationals that were not resolved by our discussions in...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Commons debates

I join the Minister in thanking the panel of Chairs for presiding over the Committee stages and the work they did in preparation for the debates we had, the staff in the Public Bill Office for...

Buildings: Insulation

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effectiveness of extending the December 2019 deadline for...