In Parliament - Toby Perkins Labour MP - Toby Perkins MP

Toby in Parliament

My recent contributions in Parliament can be found below. All of my contributions in Parliament, since I was elected in 2010, can be found here

Points of Order

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. It has recently been announced that owing to its perilous financial position, Derbyshire County Council has asked the Department for Transport to pause its...

Veterans Welfare Services

Commons debates

Let me say on behalf of the people right across Chesterfield that we have an absolute respect for the role played by veterans. I know that people across my constituency want veterans to get the...

Renters (Reform) Bill

Commons debates

The Secretary of State was at pains to stress that the majority of landlords are good ones. It is almost like saying that there has been a delay to murder legislation because most people do not...

Renters (Reform) Bill

Commons debates

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. This weekend I was out meeting flood victims in Chesterfield. The flood damage of one of them was up to 3 feet high in their front room. They were...

Renters (Reform) Bill

Commons debates

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Storm Babet: Flooding

Commons debates

Flood Babet hit Chesterfield very hard on Friday, with the River Rother and the River Hipper bursting their banks. Tragically, 83-year-old Maureen Gilbert of Tapton Terrace lost her life in her...

Special Educational Needs: Derbyshire

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Derbyshire have Education, Health and Care plans; and how many such children are...

Special Educational Needs: Derbyshire

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school students have been identified as requiring Special Education school provision outside mainstream schools...

Fish

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of levels of premature fish deaths in (a) rivers and (b) other fresh waterways this June; how...

Fish

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to provide additional (a) guidance and (b) funding to (i) the Environment Agency and (ii) local...

Challenger Tanks

Ministry of Defence

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the military capability provided by (a) Challenger 3 armoured vehicles and (b) other tanks.

Inland Waterways

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect the water quality of canals.

Illegal Migration Update

Commons debates

I envy the Minister’s apparently limitless capacity for self-congratulation, but it does not bear much relationship to what people are experiencing on the ground. I went to visit migrants...

Work Capability Assessment Consultation

Commons debates

It is very noticeable that the Secretary of State did not answer the question of the hon. Member for Wellingborough about why he believes that there has been a trebling of the number of people...

Apprentices: Finance

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the ring-fenced apprenticeship budget has been allocated to apprenticeship funding for non-levy paying employers in each financial...

Apprentices: Finance

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the ring-fenced apprenticeship budget was in each year since 2017-18; and what proportion was raised by the Apprenticeship Levy in each of...

Apprentices: Finance

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the apprenticeship budget has been spent by (a) apprenticeship levy payers and (b) non-levy payers in each year since 2017.

Apprentices: Finance

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much from the public purse her Department ringfenced for the apprenticeship budget for England in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

Apprentices: Taxation

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the Apprenticeship Levy will raise in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.

Apprentices: Finance

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Questions 188238, 188239 and 188240 on Apprentices: Finance, whether the (a) Scottish, (b) Welsh and (c) Northern...

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