Hilary’s Parliamentary Activity - Hilary Benn MP

Clinical Commissioning Groups: Complaints

Department of Health and Social Care

Hilary Benn received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the complaints procedures are for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs); how CCGs are held accountable; and if he will make a statement.

Companies: Disclosure of Information

Department for Exiting the European Union

Hilary Benn received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many non-disclosure agreements the Government has signed with companies in relations to contingency plan for the UK leaving the...

Health Services: British Nationals Abroad

Department of Health and Social Care

Hilary Benn received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to seek to ensure that UK citizens living in other EU member states continue to be eligible for...

Yemen

Commons debates

In supporting my hon. Friend’s call for a suspension of arms sales pending an investigation, which the Leader of the Opposition—who is in the Chamber—and I in my previous...

Yemen

Commons debates

Legislating for the Withdrawal Agreement

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

One of the questions that the 1.2 million British people living in the EU are asking is what their entitlement will be to continuing medical care in the other member states in the event of there...

Global Britain and the International Rules-based Order

Brexit, Science and Innovation

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I echo the hon. Gentleman’s praise for the late Senator McCain. Given that the threats to the international rules-based system come not just from Russia but from other directions, does he...

Brexit, Science and Innovation

Commons debates

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one area where continuing uncertainty is a real problem for the future of our scientific research excellence, as mentioned in the report, is access to...

Brexit Negotiations and No Deal Contingency Planning

Commons debates

Michel Barnier made it very clear to the Exiting the European Union Committee, when we met him yesterday in Brussels, that the Government’s proposal for a facilitated customs arrangement...

EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legislation

Commons debates

Paragraph 24 states that “all EU citizens lawfully residing in the UK” by 31 December will be able to stay. Can the Secretary of State give the House and those 3.5 million European...

Foreign Fighters and the Death Penalty

Commons debates

The Minister just referred, in quoting the code, to the absence of assurances. What the Home Secretary wrote in the letter to the US Attorney General was that he was not even going to seek...

UK Relations With EU

Department for Exiting the European Union

Hilary Benn received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, at what time on 12 July 2018 a copy of the White Paper entitled The Future Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European...

Access to EU Markets

Exiting the European Union

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

The Secretary of State will be only too well aware that, without an agreement on a backstop for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, there will be no withdrawal agreement. The...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I answered it. I do not know how the hon. Lady voted yesterday, but the customs union amendment would have been a way of providing much greater certainty to those with whom we are negotiating. On...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I am not going to enter into that debate, either. The fundamental truth is that those in Brussels look at the chaos on the Government Benches, created by the efforts of Conservative Members of...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I will not allow the hon. Lady to get away with putting the responsibility for the difficulties that the Government and the governing party are in, which are of their own making, on those of us...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I will be delighted to answer the hon. Gentleman’s question when we have a deal—[Interruption.] We do not have a deal. We have a proposal. It is an opening bid. The time for the House...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

I am sure that those with whom the hon. Gentleman worked will appreciate that, but there are particular civil servants who appear to have been singled out for his criticism, which I think is...

Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU

Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill

Hilary Benn made a speech in the House of Commons

May I begin by apologising to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, to the Secretary of State and to the shadow Secretary of State for not being present at the start of the debate? As Mr Speaker was aware,...

Passports: Eritrea

Hilary Benn received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with the Eritrean Embassy on their policy on issuing Eritrean passports to citizens who have been...