In the House - Chris Matheson MP

Below is a feed of all my contributions in Parliament. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions.

BBC - [Phil Wilson in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend suggests that I should be. It does not give off a particularly pleasant smell to have a part of the Government giving out favours to get a policy through. It stinks, and it ought...

BBC - [Phil Wilson in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson, and to take part in the debate opened by my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones), who gave an outstanding...

Strengthening the Union

Oral Answers to Questions - Cabinet Office

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

I have a lot of time for the right hon. Gentleman, but these answers are a disgrace. While he is giving us these platitudes, both Tory leadership contenders are willing to sell the rest of the...

Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill

Public Bill Committees

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton, whose resilience and persistence in this matter is an object lesson to us all. This could well be the Committee’s final...

Cycling

Chris Matheson received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has plans to implement the cycle to work scheme across all Departments; and if he will make a statement.

Cycling

Chris Matheson received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Departments have introduced the cycle to work scheme.

Uk Ambassador to Usa: Leaked Emails

Commons debates

In common with other right hon. and hon. Members, I have had meetings with Sir Kim Darroch in the past, and they have been both a pleasure and an honour. We have a convention in this place that...

Fleet Solid Support Ships

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

This has been a shambolic process in which overseas bidders have dropped out and the Government have begged them to rejoin the bidding process. Have Ministers not read the report by the right...

Fleet Solid Support Ships

Oral Answers to Questions - Defence

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

When her Department plans to make an announcement on the award of the contract for the fleet solid support ships.

Football Regulation

Commons debates

I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish an independent regulator of football clubs; and for connected purposes. On 9 March this year, supporters of Blackpool football...

Free Childcare

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

Nursery schools in Chester are closing and parents are being charged for extras just so that the nursery schools can make ends meet. Will the Minister not accept that there are real problems with...

Free Childcare

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the effect of the provision of 30 hours’ free childcare on the financial viability of childcare settings.

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but what we have tried not to do is to be too prescriptive in what we tell the Delivery Authority to do. The Minister had expressed concerns about being too...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

We did take a reputational hit on that contract, unfortunately. The hon. Gentleman says that this is the opportunity; the fact is that there will not be many more opportunities, because we are...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for that illustration of how action of this kind can raise standards. When we raise standards in the construction sector, we save lives. It is a dangerous...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

My right hon. Friend from the other side of Boundary Lane in Chester is absolutely right. We have to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises not simply by telling them that it would be good...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

I give way to my next-door neighbour from Alyn and Deeside.

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

If I am going to be corrected, I would choose always to be corrected by my hon. Friend. The point I am making is that whatever is made elsewhere in the United Kingdom will eventually have to be...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for pointing that out; he is right. Perhaps the successor companies of some of those original suppliers will be able to bid—what a lovely connection that...

Examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

As a distinguished former Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the right hon. Gentleman is able to give the House that guidance, for which I thank him.