Information between 1st May 2023 - 25th January 2026
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23 Oct 2025, 12:42 p.m. - House of Commons "Lions. They were joined by their local MP, Tony Benn, and even Bristol, and even Parliament's very " Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Tynemouth, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Nov 2025, 3:41 p.m. - House of Commons "movement. >> Would have been 100. >> This year Tony Benn and Mick McGahey. I never had the pleasure " Brian Leishman MP (Alloa and Grangemouth, Independent) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Dec 2025, 3:23 p.m. - House of Commons "might be a cold freeze in the air? >> I'm Tony Benn. >> I thank my hon. Friend and he reads my mind. This was the point I " Antonia Bance MP (Tipton and Wednesbury, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Oral Answers to Questions
169 speeches (11,037 words) Monday 3rd November 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Brian Leishman (Ind - Alloa and Grangemouth) Two giants of the Labour and anti-nuclear arms movement would have been 100 this year: Tony Benn and - Link to Speech |
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Black History Month
81 speeches (25,189 words) Thursday 23rd October 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) They were joined by their local MP Tony Benn, and even Parliament’s very first black life peer, Sir Learie - Link to Speech |
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West Bank: Forced Displacement
62 speeches (11,150 words) Wednesday 2nd July 2025 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) the Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this vital debate.Sixty-one years ago, Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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UK-EU Summit
358 speeches (48,195 words) Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) There were noble exceptions, including Labour’s Peter Shore, and Tony Benn, who made the case for national - Link to Speech |
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
129 speeches (33,529 words) Committee stage part one Monday 10th March 2025 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Con - Life peer) As Tony Benn used to say, “If you don’t know how to get rid of the people you elect, then you don’t have - Link to Speech |
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Coalfield Communities
93 speeches (20,322 words) Thursday 6th February 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) Indeed, until the election of Tony Benn in 1984, every Member of Parliament for Chesterfield in the 20th - Link to Speech |
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Long-duration Energy Storage (Science and Technology Committee Report)
51 speeches (21,986 words) Thursday 9th January 2025 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) told that, in 1973, during the end of the three-day week, the Department of Industry—working for Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
46 speeches (17,866 words) 2nd reading: Part 1 Wednesday 11th December 2024 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Con - Life peer) to find myself in the Division Lobby with the noble Lord, Lord Clarke of Nottingham, and the late Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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Debate on the Address
141 speeches (59,033 words) Wednesday 17th July 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) industrial strategy council, which is rather like the unlamented National Enterprise Board set up by Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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Miners and Mining Communities
73 speeches (27,494 words) Thursday 9th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) platform, we have heard the greats of the Labour and trade union movement, the likes of Nye Bevan, Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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Tobacco and Vapes Bill
213 speeches (48,358 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 16th April 2024 - Commons Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) This was a time when leading political figures such as Harold Wilson and Tony Benn openly smoked during - Link to Speech |
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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
83 speeches (12,834 words) Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message Monday 15th April 2024 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) The late Tony Benn put it well when he said that how Governments treat refugees is an indication of how - Link to Speech |
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Ann Clwyd
28 speeches (6,922 words) Tuesday 19th September 2023 - Commons Chamber Wales Office Mentions: 1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Tony Benn was next door, and there were a number of others there, so it was not a quiet place.The office - Link to Speech |
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Wednesday 14th January 2026
Written Evidence - Dr Richard Johnson EVO0019 - Electronic voting Electronic Voting - Procedure Committee Found: and frontbenchers to mix, away from media or even their own staff and advisers.1 For example, Tony Benn |
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Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade Treasury Committee Found: I think it was the Labour Government in the 1970s who set the precedent—in fact, it was Tony Benn who |
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Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade Treasury Committee Found: I think it was the Labour Government in the 1970s who set the precedent—in fact, it was Tony Benn who |
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Wednesday 5th November 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business and Trade Treasury Committee Found: I think it was the Labour Government in the 1970s who set the precedent—in fact, it was Tony Benn who |
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Thursday 16th October 2025
Written Evidence - HAR0037 - Harnessing the potential of new digital forms of identification Harnessing the potential of new digital forms of identification - Home Affairs Committee Found: The late Tony Benn warned against people being managed, not represented. |
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Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Oral Evidence - The Spectator The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee Found: For a long while I listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Scotland on the Firth of Clyde until Tony Benn |
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Thursday 19th October 2023
Report - Sixth Report - Matter referred on 29 November 2022: conduct of John Nicolson MP Committee of Privileges Found: it giving rise to allegations of contempt: a) 13 January 1988 – The Hon Member for Chesterfield (Tony Benn |
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Tuesday 12th September 2023
Oral Evidence - John Nicolson MP Matter referred on 29 November 2022: Conduct of John Nicolson - Committee of Privileges Found: Members will know that I mean no offence when I cite amongst this group Tony Benn in the 1980s and |
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The United Kingdom constitution - a mapping exercise - CBP-9384
Nov. 26 2024 Found: constitution - a mapping exercise 21 Commons Library Research Briefing, 26 November 2024 • Tony Benn |
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The office and role of Speaker - CBP-9974
Jul. 09 2024 Found: rejected on 27 January 1953.196 On 29 July 1957 Anthony Wedgwood Benn (a Labour MP later known as Tony Benn |
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Military action: Parliament's role - CBP-10001
Apr. 19 2024 Found: March 1999 which was followed by a debate on a motion to adjourn on 25 March 1999. 24 At the time Tony Benn |
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The office and functions of the Prime Minister - CBP-9880
Mar. 15 2024 Found: adequately .449 12.2 Crown Prerogatives (Parliamentary Control) Bill In March 1999, the Labour MP Tony Benn |
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The royal prerogative and ministerial advice - CBP-9877
Oct. 24 2023 Found: An example arose in 1965 when Tony Benn, the then Postmaster -General, sought to remove the Queen’s |
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Jul. 29 2024
British Library Source Page: British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: including the stabilisation, labelling, and rehousing of significant audiovisual elements of the Tony Benn |
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4th August 2024
Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) 2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Unite the Union Address of donor: Unite the Union, Tony Benn House, Victoria St, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6AY Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 Donor status: trade union (Registered 4 August 2024) Source Found: central party organisation Name of donor: Unite the Union |
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Exports
79 speeches (91,895 words) Thursday 11th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Hoy, Craig (Con - South Scotland) I do not agree with much that he says, but his words are proof that Tony Benn is still with us, even - Link to Speech |
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Scotland’s Railway (20 Years)
89 speeches (121,044 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) publicly owned Scottish Rail Holdings Ltd, although I have to remind people on a regular basis what Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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Michael “Mick” McGahey
16 speeches (40,235 words) Tuesday 30th January 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) both.Thanks to Melissa and Joshua Benn and Ruth Winstone, we can read a touching diary entry in which Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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Time for Reflection
2 speeches (2,636 words) Tuesday 7th November 2023 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: None single-issue folk and, of course, the awkward squad.Being the age that I am, my mind slips back to Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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3. Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Tuesday 30th January 2024 Mentions: 1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) I sometimes say, when people ask me about ceasing to be First Minister, that, in the words of Tony Benn - Link to Speech |
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5. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Wednesday 14th June 2023 Mentions: 1: Hefin David (Welsh Labour - Caerphilly) Bethan has demonstrated the maxim that Tony Benn first came up with that, by leaving Parliament, you - Link to Speech |