Deirdre Costigan

Deirdre Costigan

Deirdre Costigan MP

Labour
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Global Plastics Treaty

16/07/2025Commons

2 contributions
Does the hon. Member agree that the Government’s banning of disposable plastic vapes is another way we can help reduce this plastic waste?
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I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. He has outlined the important global action that we need to take on plastic...
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I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate, at which many of us are here to support her. Two of the names on that list of 1,747 p...
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Welfare Spending

14/07/2025Commons

5 contributions
I agree with my hon. Friend, and we are making huge progress on reducing those waiting lists. We are also fixing the broken welfare system that the Co...
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I absolutely welcome that point. The Conservatives put 1 million more children into poverty, with 800,000 children now relying on food banks such as S...
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State of Climate and Nature

13/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
As the Secretary of State outlined, the climate crisis is also a nature crisis, especially in nature-depleted cities such as View full contribution →

Electricity Market Review

09/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. It is clear that zonal pricing would not only waste valuable time in the race to reduce our reliance...
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I thank my hon. Friend, and almost constituency neighbour, for giving way. Does he agree that it is important that we have more police on the ground i...
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I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opening to mention the west London orbital, which is another important project in connecting up west London an...
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I will speak to the Government amendments and against some other amendments. Before I was elected, I worked for the trade union Unison where I was the...
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I have raised in this House on a number of occasions the many children in my constituency of Ealing Southall sleeping on the floor or on the sofa in m...
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Parental Leave Review

30/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
It is 55 years—over half a century—since the Equal Pay Act 1970, yet women are still paid less than men. The phrase I read 20 years ago about childcar...
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I know that many hon. Members were concerned that support would not be put in quickly enough. However, my constituency of Ealing Southall already has ...
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Will the hon. Member give way?
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