Parliamentary Activity - Dame Angela Eagle MP

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Angela is active in Parliament, taking part in debates in the Chamber, and asking Oral and Written Questions to the Government.

She also sits on the Treasury Select Committee, a cross-party committee which scrutinises the Government’s Treasury policy, and the behaviour of other associated public bodies like the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.

You can find out about the work the Committee is undertaking at the moment, usually in the form of inquiries, here.

Below are Angela’s latest contributions in Parliament –

New Clause 1 - Report on the Prime Minister’s engagement with the Intelligence and Security Committee

Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

I can see that the Minister is looking pensive, so I hope that means he is thinking of some way to reassure us on this final, important point with respect to the triple lock and the widening of...

New Clause 1 - Report on the Prime Minister’s engagement with the Intelligence and Security Committee

Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

Yes, and it is clearly important that there is a reassurance that the Secretary of State who is picked to do that job in these exceptional circumstances will either have previous experience of...

New Clause 1 - Report on the Prime Minister’s engagement with the Intelligence and Security Committee

Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes), and indeed all the fellow members of the ISC who have spoken on both sides of the House in...

New Clause 1 - Report on the Prime Minister’s engagement with the Intelligence and Security Committee

Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is not above the Minister’s pay grade to be able to confirm that the conventions and arrangements that give the ISC a particular constitutional place in...

Cyber-security and UK Democracy

Commons debates

I, too, am quite surprised at the difference between what was briefed and some of the information that the Deputy Prime Minister has given us today, and the sum of the action taken. He said that...

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I know how difficult it is for a Minister to get the entire Government to agree to do what they want them to do, when they want them to do it. However, that formulation of words has been used...

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

No, I was just saying that I am not right hon.

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a great luxury not to be pushed for time these days in the House and, Mr Stringer, you tempt me; but let us see how we get on. I particularly welcomed the Mayor of London’s...

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I certainly agree.

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer, in a room that is, for once, warmer than it is outside. Clearly, something is working better than it used to. Today’s debate...

LGBT History Month - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

backbench business

Angela Eagle made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

The hon. Gentleman and I both attended the debate last Friday. Was he as disappointed as I was that, despite how modest the Bill was and how reasonable it attempted to be, some of the arguments...

Income Tax (Charge)

Commons debates

My right hon. Friend must be able to read my mind, because that was exactly the point I was coming on to make: in real terms, there are cuts of up to 18% in unprotected Departments, going all the...

Income Tax (Charge)

Commons debates

I think that the costing of the policy in the forecast ought to be more honest and it should be taken out of the scorecard if it is not to be put into effect. Taxes are still higher than they...

Income Tax (Charge)

Commons debates

This was a Budget entirely focused on the electoral prospects of the Conservative party, not the needs of the country or our people. The Chancellor decided that his only chance to get his party...

Engagements

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

Which part of his economic legacy is the Prime Minister most proud of? Is it presiding over the highest tax burden since the second world war, or is it delivering the slowest real wage growth...

Islamophobia

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

In 2019 the Government promised to abolish section 21 no-fault evictions, but the Bill that they finally published five years later, which the Minister mentioned, does not actually abolish...

Islamophobia

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

What assessment he has made of the potential impact of section 21 evictions on levels of homelessness.

Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill - [Mr Speaker in the Chair]

Prayers - [Mr Speaker in the Chair]

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

Does the Minister accept that if the Bill were to get a Second Reading, any of the Government’s worries about the current wording could be resolved in Committee? Those concerns are not a...

Engagements

Angela Eagle made a speech in the House of Commons

The Prime Minister has just told my right hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) that, as a Minister, it is inappropriate for him to comment on the bullying allegations at the Post...

Ceasefire in Gaza

Commons debates

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you confirm that, many years ago, Opposition day debates were taken seriously by Governments, and if a Government lost a vote, as happened on the...