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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q12. In September, a National Secular Society report highlighted alarming numbers of extremist religious organisations in the UK from various faith traditions expressing hideous views about women, including promoting female genital mutilation and denying the existence of marital rape. Many of these are registered as charities, and are therefore eligible …..."
Sam Carling - View Speech

View all Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Division Vote (Commons)
17 Dec 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 165
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 333 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 118 Noes - 340
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 329 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 341 Noes - 195
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy

"I welcome that the strategy will have a focus on tackling the root causes of misogyny and radicalisation in young men. Those roots are often laid in early childhood, so what consideration has the Minister given to how social and emotional learning programmes in early years settings could be part …..."
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View all Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) contributions to the debate on: Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 311 Noes - 96
Written Question
Mental Capacity: Medical Examinations
Monday 15th December 2025

Asked by: Sam Carling (Labour - North West Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered the potential merits of reviewing the current approach to mental capacity assessments, particularly in relation to addiction and conditions which may involve fluctuating capacity, such as short-term dementia.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

On 18 October 2025, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced the intention to launch a public consultation on the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in 2026. The consultation will cover a revised Code of Practice and will incorporate changes in case law, legislation, and good practice in the application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA).

The LPS as introduced by the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 aims to deliver streamlined processes and assessments for authorising deprivations of liberty, including for individuals with fluctuating capacity. This consultation will seek the views of those affected, and people involved in their care and welfare. The responses from this consultation will be used to inform a final MCA Code of Practice which will be laid in Parliament.

Written Question
Planning Permission
Monday 15th December 2025

Asked by: Sam Carling (Labour - North West Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle repeated retrospective planning applications designed to delay enforcement action on projects which have already had permission rejected.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, local planning authorities have various powers to decline to determine planning applications. These include the power to decline to determine a retrospective planning application where an enforcement notice has already been issued (section 70C) and the power to decline to determine repeat planning applications (section 70A).

It is for local planning authorities to decide when and how they use these powers.

Division Vote (Commons)
10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 312 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 98
Division Vote (Commons)
10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context
Sam Carling (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 311 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 98 Noes - 325