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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
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
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


Parliamentary Debates
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Select Committee Documents
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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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



Parliamentary Research
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

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

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

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

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



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
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



MP Financial Interests
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
Address of donor: Unite the Union, Tony Benn




Tony Benn mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Parliamentary Debates
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

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

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

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




Tony Benn mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Senedd Debates
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

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