My speeches and debates in Parliament - Mike Amesbury MP

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Commons debates

I would like to put on record my thanks to the Chair of the Select Committee, every Select Committee member, the all-party group and the campaign. Many of my constituents in the Northwich and...

Wildlife Crime - [Andrew Rosindell in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The constituents of Weaver Vale and Chester would welcome that. People are tired of evidence being presented to the Crown Prosecution Service, and the current law is just not effective enough. I...

Topical Questions

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Fracking is bad for the environment, our health, our democracy, our landscape and even the courts. Does the Minister recognise that the Government are on shaky ground, quite literally, and will...

Fracking

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mike Amesbury received a response to a question they put to the government

Whether it is his policy to promote fracking.

Interserve

Commons debates

I am afraid that some of the Minister’s answers will come back to haunt the Government in the not-too-distant future. Some 45,000 jobs are at stake—£2 billion-worth of public...

Article 50 Extension Procedure

Commons debates

Can the Minister finally give the House the details of his spirit-of-optimism deal?

Employment

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Last month’s unemployment figures showed rises in six areas, including the north-east. There are more than 800,000 people on zero-hours contracts and wages are £9 a week lower than in...

Welfare Support

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Ministers may like to claim that nobody will be worse off on universal credit, but people transferring through natural migration get no protection against loss of income, even though they may...

Social Care Funding

Oral Answers to Questions - Treasury

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Eighty-seven people in this country die each day before receiving the care that they need. Does the Minister agree that that figure is shameful and that the Chancellor should use the spring...

Social Care Funding

Oral Answers to Questions - Treasury

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Whether he plans to change the level of funding allocated to social care.

Regional Transport Infrastructure - [Joan Ryan in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

School Funding - [Sir David Crausby in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The Institute for Fiscal Studies talks about real-terms cuts of 8%. When Members go through the Division Lobby and vote for such policies, people—teachers, parents and the...

Investment and the UK Economy

Exiting the European Union

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Yesterday, I met the Cheshire and Warrington local enterprise partnership, which told me how the Government’s prolonged approach to Brexit negotiations was already having a major effect on...

Investment and the UK Economy

Exiting the European Union

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the effect of the ongoing negotiations for the UK leaving the EU on investment and the UK economy.

Department for Work and Pensions

Commons debates

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Neil Gray). I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Ruth George) on securing such an important debate, and of...

Police Funding

Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

Cheshire police force has lost 135 officers since 2010, and central Government cuts for a ninth consecutive year, in real terms, continue to put real pressures on our local resources. When will...

Police Funding

Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on police forces of changes in the level of Government funding for the police in 2019-20.

Competition and Markets Authority: Trade Unions

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mike Amesbury received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the role and function of the Competition and Markets...

Asda: Sainsbury's

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mike Amesbury received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that employees' views are taken into account during the extension of the inquiry by...

Armed Forces Covenant

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Mike Amesbury made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister will know that there are few very reliable statistics on veterans who are homeless. What does the Minister intend to do to improve that?