Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Fire Safety Bill
"Unfortunately, leaseholders in my constituency have been left in the dark after the announcement the other day because, despite the co-operation between the Welsh Government and the UK Government on the details of this Bill, they have been unable to get answers on the crucial issues of the building development …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Fire Safety Bill
"I wholeheartedly agree with the points that my hon. Friend is making. I want to emphasise the importance of paragraph (a) of Lords amendment 2, on sharing information about the materials that a building is constructed of, because my constituents in Cardiff South and Penarth have real difficulties getting hold …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Fire Safety Bill
"I know for a fact that some of those affected are traditional Conservative voters. I have spoken to people from all walks of life, and they are in absolute anguish about this. They are being left in the dark. We had the announcement the other day—it was typical to announce …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Fire Safety Bill
"May I add my warm words to those of other Members in wishing the Minister for Security, the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (James Brokenshire), a full and swift recovery?
I think that many constituents, from constituencies across the country, will struggle to understand some of the …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2020 to Question 41464 on UK Border Force and UK Visas and Immigration: Coronavirus; if she will publish the same data for each month from May 2020 to January 2021.
Answered by Chris Philp
- Shadow Home Secretary
The attached table shows at column C the number of Border Force and UK Visas and Immigration employees who have been recorded as beginning a period of sickness absence due to COVID-19 symptoms.
Column D shows the number of employees recorded as beginning a period of isolation at home on paid special leave, either resulting from being identified as a close contact of someone with COVID-19 symptoms or because the employee themselves had been required to shield in line with Government guidance.
We do not hold data centrally on those employees who have mild symptoms and are well enough to continue to work from home, or who are isolating at home but are able to work from home and therefore do not need to take paid special leave.
We do not hold data centrally on the outcomes of COVID-19 testing of our employees.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2020
Immigration Rules: Supported Accommodation
"On accommodation, Clearsprings Ready Homes, which I believe manages the Penally camp and has also managed accommodation in my constituency for many years, made multimillion-pound profits over the past few years, paid one of its directors £147,000 last year—that is more than Dominic Cummings—and took a £2 million dividend in …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 10th December 2020
Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with social media and streaming platforms on the availability of violent gang and drug-related content to under 18s.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government is committed to delivering on the people’s priorities by tackling violent crime. We are clear that internet companies must go further and faster to tackle illegal content online. It is already an offence to incite, assist or encourage violence online.
We are proactively working with law enforcement agencies and meeting with social media companies to address a full range of online harms (including serious violence, gang and drug content online), as part of our wider aims set out in the Online Harms White Paper. The full Government response to the Online Harms White Paper will be published shortly. This?will set out our plans for a new legislative framework that will drive robust action to tackle the spread of illegal content online and to keep children safe.
The Government has invested significantly to tackle serious violence and county lines: £119million in 2020-21, including £20 million to tackle county lines drug dealing and £1.5million to fund the Social Media Hub, delivered by the Metropolitan Police Service. The Hub includes a dedicated team of police officers and staff to take action against harmful online material, focusing on investigative, disruption and enforcement work against online gang activity, as well as making referrals to social media companies so illegal and harmful content can be taken down.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
"The Minister knows how seriously I take these matters and the equipping of our security services to do the job that they need to do, often in horrendous circumstances that affect the integrity of our country and its individuals, but he will also appreciate that safeguards have to be in …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
"I am listening very carefully to what the Minister is saying, but will he be clear? This is all predicated on our continued membership of the European convention on human rights and on the Human Rights Act staying as it is, and at the moment we have an Attorney General …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
"My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I understand that one of the filings that the Government put to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal said that
“the state, in tasking the CHIS…is not the instigator of that activity and cannot be treated as somehow responsible for it…it would be unreal …..."Stephen Doughty - View Speech
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