Speeches

I today lent my support to 80 charities calling for better support for disabled people. I attended the launch event in Parliament for the report ‘Has welfare...

"A secondary academy in my constituency has had to narrow the curriculum on offer to cut costs. The school is unable to meet the demand for counselling—there is...

I used the opportunity at Prime Minister's Questions to bring further attention to my Private Members' Bill

Success! My Private Members' Bill - "Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill" has cleared all its Parliamentary stages! Next stop -...

My speech from Monday's education funding debate, where I talk about the long-term funding issues that schools in West Sussex have encountered.

My full speech from the debate in Westminster Hall this afternoon on rough sleeping - very proud to be able to talk about the scheme we have in Worthing...

One of the more conciliatory things said by one of our EU partners when a referendum was in the offing was by the Finnish Prime Minister, who proclaimed that:...

Thank you to all those who wrote to me and asked me to attended the Health and Social Care debate. I am happy to say that I was able to attend and spoke about...

‘Neuroparenting’ is on the rise and has been picked up by politicians from David Cameron to Hilary Clinton. In her book ‘Neuroparenting: the expert invasion of...