Deirdre Costigan
Deirdre Costigan MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Global Plastics Treaty
16/07/2025 • Commons
Does the hon. Member agree that the Government’s banning of disposable plastic vapes is another way we can help reduce this plastic waste?
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...
RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
16/07/2025 • Commons
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...
Welfare Spending
14/07/2025 • Commons
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...
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
13/07/2025 • Commons
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
09/07/2025 • Commons
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...
London’s National Economic Contribution
09/07/2025 • Commons
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...
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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Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
08/07/2025 • Commons
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...
Government Performance against Fiscal Rules
06/07/2025 • Commons
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...
Parental Leave Review
30/06/2025 • Commons
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...
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
30/06/2025 • Commons
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 ...
Will the hon. Member give way?
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