Jake Richards
Jake Richards MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Welfare Spending
14/07/2025 • Commons
My hon. Friend is talking about other areas of public policy that affect welfare. Is not the other side of the coin the 2.8 million people out of work...
Business of the House
09/07/2025 • Commons
I recently met volunteers at Kiveton Park football club, who do an incredible job organising countless teams for boys, girls, men and women in our are...
Topical Questions
01/06/2025 • Commons
Solar Farms
14/05/2025 • Commons
I have been given two minutes, so I will get straight to the point and talk about Whitestone. Last July, after being elected as the MP for Rother Vall...
Engagements
13/05/2025 • Commons
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. During Prime Minister’s questions, the Leader of the Opposition claimed that unemployment has risen by 10% since the ...
UK-EU Summit
12/05/2025 • Commons
I reject the right hon. Gentleman’s characterisation of the policy. I will come on to that specific policy in a moment, but his characterisation is
View full contribution →Unlike many Opposition Members, my constituents have little appetite for a relitigation of the Brexit debates of 2016. Back at the time of referendum,...
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
27/04/2025 • Commons
Congratulations to Liverpool fans.
As we have been hearing this evening, footbal...
Child Rape Gangs
27/04/2025 • Commons
I genuinely welcome the renewed focus on this issue in this Parliament. In the Home Affairs Committee we have heard evidence from Professor Jay about ...
Retrospective charges by Yorkshire Water
01/04/2025 • Commons
I rise to present a petition about a £47 retrospective charge that Yorkshire Water has unfairly given residents across my constituency, due to the wat...
Sentencing Council Guidelines
31/03/2025 • Commons
I think they agree with that now—interesting. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that this episode shows that our constitution is working? Parliament is s...
The Sentencing Council was created in April 2010; a month later, the Conservatives came to power. If, as so many on the Conservative Benches seem to t...
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