Ms Diane Abbott
Rt Hon Diane Abbott MP
Independent
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism
01/07/2025 • Commons
The Minister will be aware that many of us in this Chamber think that Palestine Action is in a different category from the other two organisations tha...
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
30/06/2025 • Commons
Millions of disabled people will listen, view or read about this debate and its consequences, and feel fear. For some Members of the House, this is ju...
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
19/06/2025 • Commons
There has been a lot of talk about there being no evidence of coercion, but within the family, the most powerful coercion is silence: it is the failur...
This may be the most fateful Bill that we discuss this Parliament. It is literally a matter of life and death. I have heard talk today of the injustic...
Church Assets: Historical Link to Slavery
21/05/2025 • Commons
My hon. Friend will be aware that there is a lot of interest in the relationship between the Church and the slave trade. Is she able to say over what ...
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
15/05/2025 • Commons
Does my hon. Friend agree that far too many people do not have confidence in the face of authority, and that if a doctor raises assisted suicide with ...
Personal Independence Payment: Disabled People
06/05/2025 • Commons
The Minister has again repeated the line that the number of people claiming PIP has shot up and that there must be something dubious about that. I ask...
We undoubtedly need more information before we can meaningfully vote on these proposals.
Some of us are old enough to remember Mrs Thatcher and her...
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Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
29/04/2025 • Commons
My hon. Friend refers to blockages. How can he describe Members of this House, and people in the community who are trying to stand up for a fair and j...
Just to respond to the point that the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) has just raised, the guidelines did not pick out race and ethni...
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Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
21/04/2025 • Commons
Well, either our judiciary is world-class and highly regarded, or it is so soft-minded that the very existence of a pre-sentencing report will make it...
I can say with confidence that the Sentencing Council is talking about issues to do with race and criminal justice because of a history, going back de...
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Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
11/04/2025 • Commons
Today, some of us have been surprised to hear the Opposition talk about a failure to prepare. The workers of Scunthorpe might say that they had 14 yea...
Lowest Incomes: Support
07/04/2025 • Commons
It is all very well for the Minister to talk about helping people into work, but is he aware of the many millions of people on personal independence p...
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