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On 18 December 2025, before the pre-Christmas adjournment debate, I presented a public petition on the Leather Museum:  “I am presenting this petition on behalf of the residents in Walsall and the UK. This is a petition about the Walsall Leather Museum which was built in a nineteenth century leather factory. It is the heart

The House of Commons met on on Wednesday 17 December 2025 to debate the Bill at second reading.  The National Insurance Contributions Bill make provision to amend section 4 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, and section 4 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, so that amounts of

I chaired the Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee on 10 December 2025. This considered the Draft Building Safety Regulator (Establishment of New Body and Transfer of Functions etc.) Regulations 2026.  The Building Saftey Regulator (BSR) establishes a new body separate from the Health and Safety Executive. Since the new leadership took over at the BSR, progress

10 December is Human Right’s Day. Amnesty International held their  Annual Human Rights Day Parliamentary Reception, in celebration of International Human Rights Day.    Fabian Hamilton MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights opened the event and introduced the  other speakers including Baroness Helena Kennedy, member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights