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.

Coronavirus: Rehabilitation

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics at regular intervals on the number of people that have been treated in hospital and...

BBC

Commons debates

I congratulate the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper) on securing this urgent question, which goes to the heart of Members’ concerns about cuts to BBC funding, and the breaking of a...

Topical Questions

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

Money for the aerospace technology industry is welcome, but it is money for a future that may not exist if we do not save the aerospace industry today. Will the Secretary of State and his...

All Party ExcludedUK Parliamentary Group

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

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people working on self-employed PAYE conditions who are not eligible for (a) the Coronavirus Job...

Voluntary and Community Sector: Covid-19

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Chris Matheson made a speech in the House of Commons

Follow that! One of the best ways to support the voluntary sector is to listen to it when it calls for a policy change. For example, the petition of Age UK to keep over-75s’ TV licences...

Constituencies: Stockport and Tameside

Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

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

Since the imposition of lockdown restrictions the Local Government Boundary Commission for England has had extensive dialogue with those councils included in its electoral review programme. This...

Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime

Commons debates

May I add my congratulations to the Foreign Secretary? I pay my respects to the memory of Sergei Magnitsky and to his family. I also pay tribute to Bill Browder, whom I have had the pleasure of...

Local Government: Constituencies

Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

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

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England published its final recommendations for future electoral arrangements in the London Borough of Sutton on 30 June. It expects to lay a draft...

Covid-19: International Language Schools

Commons debates

I endorse the congratulations to the hon. Lady on standing up for this important sector. She is talking about the financial value, which is considerable. Is there not also a cultural value of...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I had not noticed that. You learn something new every day in this Committee. I think the Minister was unfair to characterise this idea as we think we know better. It is not that; it is simply...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I do not want to take too long, but both interventions were correct. The point is that some powers will go straight to the devolved Assemblies and Parliaments, but others will remain here. We are...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am intimately aware of that. I will take the Minister’s advice, because I do not think all of the responsibilities are coming back. Some will go back to the various different Parliaments;...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am grateful to the Minister and all hon. Members for taking part in an illuminating and positive debate. I was particularly taken by the intervention the hon. Member for Glasgow East made on...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—or in a sense I am not, because I should have liked an answer that put my mind at rest, which his did not. It shows the severity of the problems. I shall...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

To be clear, I was not proposing different sized quotas in different areas. I was just suggesting that that would be the logic of following devolution to the letter, and to the max, in terms of...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Of course I will. I mentioned the hon. Gentleman, so I could hardly not give way to him.

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Gentleman makes a salient point. I would suggest that we have English devolution, and if we were logical in these arguments, we would reduce the number of constituencies available in...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I absolutely agree, which is why, to develop my argument and to answer the right hon. Lady directly, the new clause in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I briefly seek the opinion of the Committee in discussion of the new clause. I hope that its aim is self-evident. Most of us in Committee—my friends, the hon. Members for Glasgow East and...

Allocation of constituencies

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Chris Matheson made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.