In Parliament - 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

Planning Permission

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications have been referred to him due to non-determination by a local authority in each year...

Bicycles: Repairs and Maintenance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of bicycle repair shops who are SMEs that will be able to accept Fix Your Bike vouchers.

Bicycles: Repairs and Maintenance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of bicycle shops that will have the £2 million public liability insurance that is required for them to...

Bicycles: Repairs and Maintenance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when people will be able to apply for Fix Your Bike vouchers.

Covid-19 Testing: Care Sector

Toby Perkins made a speech in the House of Commons

Some 1,431 people were discharged from Scottish hospitals into care homes by the Scottish Government. In Scotland, the proportion of care home deaths is much higher than that in England, where it...

Covid-19 Testing: Care Sector

Toby Perkins made a speech in the House of Commons

If he will publish a comparative assessment of the availability of covid-19 testing for (a) care home residents, (b) home care recipients and (c) care home staff in Scotland and England.

Apprentices

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 new apprenticeship starts were for (a) level 2, (b) level 3, (c) level 4 and (d) level 5 and above in each month of each year since...

Further Education: Insolvency

Department for Education

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which further education colleges are in education administration as at 24 June 2020; when those colleges were placed into education administration;...

Westferry Printworks Development

Commons debates

The Secretary of State says that he is pleased to have this debate and started his speech by saying that he is going to release all of these documents. Why is he doing that today? He is releasing...

Westferry Printworks Development

Commons debates

I understand that the Secretary of State has acknowledged the appearance of bias. My hon. Friend is making a compelling case. If, in fact, the Secretary of State is entirely innocent of...

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Commons debates

First, the Home Secretary, in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi), conflated something that the previous Labour Government had apparently said about people who were here...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

Given the statistics that the right hon. Gentleman has outlined about the success of this output, what does it say about the BBC’s priorities that it would even consider getting rid of...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman is right that the local context has been different. What is also different is local accountability, because councils have decisions to make about the local response to...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

It absolutely is. I am conscious that local media—particularly radio—are very much under threat. I have previously mentioned Peak FM, which has been a great, small local radio station...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

Once again, I absolutely agree. I think it was Tip O’Neill who was credited with the phrase, “all politics is local”, and in the last general election we saw that more strongly...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

I could not agree more. Coronavirus has brought into sharp focus the need for a local response, given the extent to which local areas are experiencing a global pandemic in different ways. In...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) for securing this debate. The level of interest that there has been shows the desire across the country to protect this...

BBC Regional Politics Coverage

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Gentleman for securing this debate, which is incredibly important. I am a great defender of the BBC and will happily defend the licence fee. I feel strongly that one of the...

Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

I am grateful to the Solicitor General for giving way. I am also grateful to him for recognising the position of my colleagues on the Labour Front Bench. He is absolutely right to say that we are...

Topical Questions

Toby Perkins made a speech in the House of Commons

I do not know why that answer could not have been given to my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting), who asked a very similar question but got no sort of answer. The Government...