This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the West Ham station attack, in which an IRA bomb exploded on a tube train, injuring nine people. Post Office engineer Peter Chalk was shot and seriously injured, and the tube driver, Joseph Julius Stephen, was shot and killed, as they attempted to...

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the West Ham station attack, in which an IRA bomb exploded on a tube train, injuring nine people. Post Office engineer Peter Chalk was shot and seriously injured, and the tube driver, Joseph Julius Stephen, was shot and killed, as they attempted to...

I join my hon. Friend in sending our best wishes to the friends and family of Mr Stephen, and I thank him for raising this important anniversary. It is important that we remember such events, not least because it underlines the importance of community. I join my hon. Friend in...

I join my hon. Friend in sending our best wishes to the friends and family of Mr Stephen, and I thank him for raising this important anniversary. It is important that we remember such events, not least because it underlines the importance of community. I join my hon. Friend in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she will take to help improve the (a) quality of life and (b) life expectancy of people diagnosed with HIV and resident in West Ham constituency; and what steps she is taking to help target her Department’s...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she will take to help improve the (a) quality of life and (b) life expectancy of people diagnosed with HIV and resident in West Ham constituency; and what steps she is taking to help target her Department’s...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of cancelled NHS operations in the West Ham constituency in the past 12 months, by (a) borough, (b) ethnicity, (c) age and (d) socio-economic group of the patient.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of cancelled NHS operations in the West Ham constituency in the past 12 months, by (a) borough, (b) ethnicity, (c) age and (d) socio-economic group of the patient.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the prevalence of eating disorders among residents of West Ham constituency by (a) gender, (b) ethnic group and (c) age.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the prevalence of eating disorders among residents of West Ham constituency by (a) gender, (b) ethnic group and (c) age.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy by (a) gender and (b) ethnicity in West Ham constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy by (a) gender and (b) ethnicity in West Ham constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of malnutrition in West Ham constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of malnutrition in West Ham constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the demand for mental health services among (a) young people in West Ham and (b) young people trying to exit gangs in West Ham; and what assessment she has made of whether that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the demand for mental health services among (a) young people in West Ham and (b) young people trying to exit gangs in West Ham; and what assessment she has made of whether that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the level of the take up of breast cancer screening services in West Ham constituency in the most recent period for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the level of the take up of breast cancer screening services in West Ham constituency in the most recent period for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103515 on Building Safety Fund: Newham, for the 43 Building Safety Fund registrations submitted in relation to buildings in the West Ham constituency that remain under review, for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103515 on Building Safety Fund: Newham, for the 43 Building Safety Fund registrations submitted in relation to buildings in the West Ham constituency that remain under review, for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103515 on Building Safety Fund: Newham, for what reason each of the 22 Building Safety Fund registrations submitted in relation to buildings in the West Ham constituency that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103515 on Building Safety Fund: Newham, for what reason each of the 22 Building Safety Fund registrations submitted in relation to buildings in the West Ham constituency that...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of (a) individuals and (b) family groups with a noted connection to West Ham constituency her Department is monitoring for inclusion within the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of (a) individuals and (b) family groups with a noted connection to West Ham constituency her Department is monitoring for inclusion within the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

Air Quality

The petition of Staff and pupils of Godwin Junior School, Forest Gate,

Declares that we are deeply concerned about the air quality in the area around our school and London in general; we are concerned about how air quality impacts on our rights to the best possible health and a...

Air Quality

The petition of Staff and pupils of Godwin Junior School, Forest Gate,

Declares that we are deeply concerned about the air quality in the area around our school and London in general; we are concerned about how air quality impacts on our rights to the best possible health and a...

Better Air Quality

I rise to present a petition concerning the dangerous levels of air pollution in London on behalf of the students and staff of Godwin Primary School in my constituency. I recently met a very impressive group of student representatives who had organised the petition, which has been signed...

Better Air Quality

I rise to present a petition concerning the dangerous levels of air pollution in London on behalf of the students and staff of Godwin Primary School in my constituency. I recently met a very impressive group of student representatives who had organised the petition, which has been signed...

Adjournment debate on the effects of proposed changes to housing benefit in West Ham.

Adjournment debate on the effects of proposed changes to housing benefit in West Ham.

I am happy to agree with my hon. Friend. A customer has choice, but I am sad to say that the people of Newham will have very little choice. What options are open to those facing a shortfall in rent? What alternative accommodation and what options to renegotiate will they...

I am happy to agree with my hon. Friend. A customer has choice, but I am sad to say that the people of Newham will have very little choice. What options are open to those facing a shortfall in rent? What alternative accommodation and what options to renegotiate will they...

I am reluctant to interrupt my hon. Friend because she is making an extremely powerful case, but is she as nauseated as I am by the use of the word ““customer”” in that context? A ““customer”” is a person who makes a decision on alternatives in a market economy, so...

I am reluctant to interrupt my hon. Friend because she is making an extremely powerful case, but is she as nauseated as I am by the use of the word ““customer”” in that context? A ““customer”” is a person who makes a decision on alternatives in a market economy, so...

I am grateful to have secured this debate, which seems particularly timely given today's announcement by the Minister for Housing and Local Government. Time and again, we have been told that the aim of the Government's welfare reform package, including the reform of housing benefit, is to make work pay....

I am grateful to have secured this debate, which seems particularly timely given today's announcement by the Minister for Housing and Local Government. Time and again, we have been told that the aim of the Government's welfare reform package, including the reform of housing benefit, is to make work pay....

My basic tenet is that it is not possible to exist with the universal cap level and pay the rent of a London property, whether it is a two-bedroom flat over a fish and chip shop in Green street, or somewhere a little more palatial, perhaps further out. The taper...

My basic tenet is that it is not possible to exist with the universal cap level and pay the rent of a London property, whether it is a two-bedroom flat over a fish and chip shop in Green street, or somewhere a little more palatial, perhaps further out. The taper...