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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Apr 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am very grateful, Mr Speaker. It is nice to be back.

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving me two detailed briefings since I took office. He announced on 4 April—coincidentally, the day the Labour party elected a new leader—that he wanted to introduce a release …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Apr 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"With just 33 released out of up to 4,000, the Secretary of State will recognise that, under the restrictive regime he talked about, prisoners cannot be kept in their cells for 23 hours a day, which puts prison staff at risk, never mind potentially seriously breaching important human rights. What …..."
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Written Question
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Brexit
Wednesday 29th May 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of his Department.

Answered by Margot James

As part of the department’s preparations for the possibility of leaving the EU without a deal, around 110 officials were seconded away from their normal duties to support on EU Exit work. In addition, a significant number of officials had their work re-prioritised to include EU Exit work whilst remaining in their primary roles.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Apr 2019
Online Harms White Paper

"Forty or 50 years ago, the tobacco industry was largely responsible for driving up cancer in our country. It took the Department of Health many years to start to regulate what was going on in the industry and deal with it on behalf of the taxpayer. It is clear from …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Feb 2018
UK Basketball

"Given the time limit, I will cut to the chase. This debate comes at a tough and rough time for urban, inner-city communities in our country. Local authorities have had their money slashed by up to 40%. The idea that they could invest in courts and facilities is, I am …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Feb 2018
UK Basketball

"On the point the Minister has just made—I am grateful she will look at 3 on 3—we could be in a situation after the next Olympics where elite and Olympic sport are further away from urban communities, but in other communities, where there is hockey, canoeing and rowing, it is …..."
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Written Question
BBC: Legal Costs
Thursday 25th January 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information he holds on the amount and proportion of monies from the public purse received by the BBC which it has spent on legal fees and out of court settlements and associated costs relating to non-disclosure agreements in cases of alleged victims of discrimination, bullying and harassment in each of the last seven years.

Answered by Margot James

We do not hold this information. The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What the timetable is for the Director of Public Prosecutions to complete her review of the charging decision in relation to the fatal shooting of Jermaine Baker; and if he will make a statement. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am very grateful to the Attorney General for that answer. He will understand that in a democracy there is nothing more serious than death as a result of police contact. This case has caused tremendous concern across my constituency and beyond in the wider black community. It is a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 31 Oct 2017
Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility

"I consider the Minister a friend, not least because we support the same football team—Tottenham Hotspur, the best in the premiership—but she will know that I have campaigned for over seven years on this issue, and in my view it was a complete mistake to introduce these machines to the …..."
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