Sir Alec Shelbrooke

Sir Alec Shelbrooke

Rt Hon Sir Alec Shelbrooke MP

Conservative
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Taxes

14/07/2025Commons

5 contributions
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 ...
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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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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...
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Iran-Israel Conflict

15/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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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...
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Chinese Embassy Development

08/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
Does the Minister believe that China will always try to exploit and infiltrate data communication in this country?
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Bank Closures and Banking Hubs

04/06/2025Commons

2 contributions
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...
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I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. To expand on his comment about supermarkets, in Wetherby in my constituency, Morr...
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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...
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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

02/06/2025Commons

2 contributions
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, ...
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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...
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Government Announcements

01/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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Strategic Defence Review

01/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
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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