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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 Feb 2026
Online Harm: Child Protection

"I wanted to intervene on the point about principles, content and responsibility. I worked for Channel 4 before I came to this place, and we were regulated by Ofcom. Channel 4 did not create its own content, but was responsible for the editorialisation of that content. It was beholden to …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
23 Feb 2026 - Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 284 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 73 Noes - 286
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Feb 2026 - Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 282 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 361 Noes - 84
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Feb 2026 - Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 276 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 77 Noes - 280
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Feb 2026 - Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 271 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 156 Noes - 273
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Feb 2026 - Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 270 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 161 Noes - 272
Written Question
Inland Waterways: Pollution Control
Friday 13th February 2026

Asked by: Natasha Irons (Labour - Croydon East)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of local councils in exercising their statutory enforcement powers to protect local waterways from pollution; and whether her Department holds data on enforcement activity by local authorities.

Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Local authorities do hold limited enforcement responsibilities, primarily through Environmental Health functions, for example, under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 in relation to certain industrial processes, and powers relating to flooding from ordinary watercourses. However, these are distinct from the regulation of water company discharges.

Enforcement against pollution from water companies is the responsibility of the Environment Agency, which issues discharge permits, monitors compliance, and takes civil or criminal enforcement action where offences occur. Defra sets the overall legislative and policy framework for this system, including recent reforms under the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025, which strengthens the ability of regulators to take faster and tougher action, including new criminal liability for company executives.

Division Vote (Commons)
11 Feb 2026 - Local Government Finance - View Vote Context
Natasha Irons (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 272 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 277 Noes - 143
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Local Government Finance

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Local Government Finance

"I want to add my voice on this point. In Croydon, we find ourselves in a similar situation, in that inner London boroughs put their children into our part of London because the housing is slightly cheaper. I also have constituents who have faced exactly the situation that my hon. …..."
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