Parliamentary Activity - Darren Paffey MP

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Higher Education Funding - [Valerie Vaz in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I agree that this is not the deal that I think our country wants to offer its young people, particularly if the Government are about breaking down barriers to opportunity. Secondly, on...

Higher Education Funding - [Valerie Vaz in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend makes an absolutely salient point. Many of us never imagined that we would get to an even worse place, but here we are. Only the top three earnings deciles of recent intakes will...

Higher Education Funding - [Valerie Vaz in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) on securing this important debate. Southampton is home to...

Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill

Commons debates

I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman’s closing point. The Bill must fix that, which is why I welcome its progress, but like Members from across the Chamber, I will follow its progress...

Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill

Commons debates

I absolutely agree. As I will come on to say, it is simply unforgivable that too many companies still have no plan whatever for remediation, and people are paying the price, financially, but also...

Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill

Commons debates

We are all fighting for our constituents to be protected from the bills that are landing on them through no fault of their own. They certainly did not choose any of this. They want the simple...

Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill

Commons debates

Southampton Itchen is one of the places in Hampshire with the most buildings with unsafe cladding. As hon. Members have said so eloquently, that means people live with the worry that the...

British Students Abroad: Languages

Department for Education

Darren Paffey received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the financial and administrative barriers faced by UK modern languages students required to undertake a...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Darren Paffey made a speech in the House of Commons

The damning ITV News investigation of failings in disability care covered the case of Adam Crook, son of my constituent Joanna, who raised serious allegations about alleged assault and...

Kinship Carers: Statutory Paid Employment Leave

Westminster Hall debates

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn) on her years of hard work on this issue and on securing this debate. The Government’s core mission...

National Care Service

Commons debates

I join my hon. Friend in praising care workers up and down the country, and I pay particular tribute to those who gave such excellent care to both my parents in their final years. From day one as...

Electricity Grid Connections

Energy Security and Net Zero

Darren Paffey made a speech in the House of Commons

Southampton’s port electrification and decarbonisation projects are ready to go, but we still cannot get the national grid upgrades that we need for at least another decade. The Prime...

Electricity Grid Connections

Energy Security and Net Zero

Darren Paffey made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent progress she has made on reforming electricity grid connections.

Personal Independence Payment

Department for Work and Pensions

Darren Paffey received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timeline is for expanding the digital application option for Personal Independence Payment to all eligible claimants.

Topical Questions

Darren Paffey made a speech in the House of Commons

A new report by the charity Become shows that personal advisers are in some cases supervising up to 46 young care leavers each. These are the people who can make the difference between young...

Question

Department for Education

Darren Paffey received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of early deaths of care leavers.

Water Sector: Public Ownership - [Paula Barker in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

As far as I am aware, Sir Jeremy, you do. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship. I thank the hundreds of Southampton Itchen constituents who signed the petition because they know that...

Jobcentres: Armed Forces

Department for Work and Pensions

Darren Paffey received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre districts (a) are without an operational Armed Forces Champion and (b) have been without one at any point in the last two...

Jobcentres: Armed Forces Covenant

Department for Work and Pensions

Darren Paffey received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training Jobcentre staff receive on Armed Forces Covenant obligations; and how compliance is monitored.

Social Housing Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for making that very salient point. That is true in my patch as well, where tenants need homes with adaptations either for themselves or for disabled children, so I hope...