Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2025
G20 and Ukraine
"I once more thank the Prime Minister for his unstinting support for Ukraine, and for saying that nothing can be done for Ukraine without Ukraine. In the last few moments, a media source in the US has reported that Ukraine has agreed to the peace proposal brokered by the Trump …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Asked by:
Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much of the UK's trade with Morocco is with Western Sahara.
Answered by Georgia Gould
- Minister of State (Education)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 26th June is attached.
Written Question
Thursday 31st October 2024
Asked by:
Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish the debarment list.
Answered by Georgia Gould
- Minister of State (Education)
The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act), which received Royal Assent in October 2023, creates a new debarment regime, including a public debarment list.
As of the 24th February 2025 the Act comes into force, at which point debarment investigations can be started and the debarment list can be created.
Written Question
Tuesday 9th May 2023
Asked by:
Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of recognising the disabled person's bus pass as an official form of identification across Government services.
Answered by Alex Burghart
- Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Each individual government service decides what constitutes acceptable forms of identification, based on the requirements of the service.
In Cabinet Office, Government Digital Service, in collaboration with other government departments, is developing a single sign-on and identity verification service, named GOV.UK One Login. One Login will allow people to create and reuse a digital identity to access public services.
One Login’s secure and robust identity checking process currently accepts two forms of photographic documentation: passports and driving licences.
We recognise that not everyone has a passport or driving licence and therefore, over time, we will implement other ways for users to verify their identity when using GOV.UK One Login. This is to ensure as many people as possible can access the services they need online.
This will involve reviewing options to use the disabled persons bus pass in due course.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jun 2022
Standards in Public Life
"One way to cheat is to change the rules. We have seen the rules in the ministerial code being changed, and we are seeing a general levelling down of standards in public life. The idea that the Government can carry on marking their own homework is absurd. Does my hon. …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 16th May 2022
Asked by:
Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the background work is expected to commence to establish the Commission on Covid Commemoration; and when he plans to publish a detailed timetable for setting up the Commission on Covid Commemoration.
Answered by Michael Ellis
As the Prime Minister previously announced, the Government will set out the Commission membership and terms of reference in due course.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
"I will not speak for long, as I do not want to delay the House. I will merely give a perspective on both the principle of the motion and the standing of the House in relation to the motion. The motion hinges on whether there should be due consideration by …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Appointment of Lord Lebedev
"Alex Lebedev owns Lebedev Holdings, which owns 75% of the Evening Standard. He supported the invasion of Crimea, on which he held a number of events in 2014. We do not know whether he tried to influence the Prime Minister at that point on Ukraine’s territorial integrity; we now …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Covid-19 Update
"The Prime Minister is right to laud our life science industry, as British universities and British scientists have helped us to get through covid; so why, after developing the UK’s Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre with taxpayer money alongside British universities, have the Government decided to sell it off so …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Nov 2021
COP26
"I was at COP representing the Inter-Parliamentary Union as the global co-rapporteur for COP26. The global Parliaments delivered a very strong document. While I was there, I met the Speaker of the Tuvalu Parliament, Samuelu Teo, who told me that donor countries had provided enough finance for them to build …..."Alex Sobel - View Speech
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