Sir Alec Shelbrooke
Rt Hon Sir Alec Shelbrooke MP
Conservative
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Taxes
14/07/2025 • Commons
My hon. Friend makes a very powerful point. I am just wrapping up, but I will tell you this, Mr Deputy Speaker: I am a comprehensive schoolboy, and I ...
I am sure it has just slipped the hon. Gentleman’s mind that people have the ability to do that. Famously, when Stanley Baldwin was the Financial Secr...
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Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
06/07/2025 • Commons
Since April, eight companies have personally approached me to tell me that they have either laid people off or have had to close their businesses afte...
Iran-Israel Conflict
15/06/2025 • Commons
The reality is that there is a long history of diplomacy being used as a cover to reach the ultimate aims of what countries want to do—for example Rus...
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report
15/06/2025 • Commons
I welcome a lot of what the Home Secretary has said today; she keeps referring to institutional failures. In Bradford in 2020, a little girl, Star Hob...
Chinese Embassy Development
08/06/2025 • Commons
Does the Minister believe that China will always try to exploit and infiltrate data communication in this country?
Bank Closures and Banking Hubs
04/06/2025 • Commons
I am most grateful to the hon. Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) for bringing this debate on banking before the House. I think bank closures...
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. To expand on his comment about supermarkets, in Wetherby in my constituency, Morr...
Battery Energy Storage Sites: Safety Regulations
04/06/2025 • Commons
When the Government do the research on mitigation that the Minister talks about, I gently suggest that they lay down in statute the minimum mitigation...
Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the issues is that there is no statutory requirement on prevention methods that may stop us from getting to that...
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Dementia Care
02/06/2025 • Commons
I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, who does indeed make an important comment. My constituency of Wetherby and Easingwold has an older demographic, ...
It is a genuine pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Brash), who has hit the nail on the head when it comes to how terrible this dise...
Government Announcements
01/06/2025 • Commons
As we have this knockabout, what troubles me is that the House has a very important job to do. We are talking about the expansion of nuclear weapons—w...
Strategic Defence Review
01/06/2025 • Commons
I welcome the defence review—it sets a direction and there is much in it—but I do not agree with paragraph 20 on page 68:
“Defence should only run ...
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