Jake Richards

Jake Richards

Jake Richards MP

Labour
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Welfare Spending

14/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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Business of the House

09/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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Topical Questions

01/06/2025Commons

1 contribution

Solar Farms

14/05/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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Engagements

13/05/2025Commons

2 contributions
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 ...
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UK-EU Summit

12/05/2025Commons

2 contributions
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
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Unlike many Opposition Members, my constituents have little appetite for a relitigation of the Brexit debates of 2016. Back at the time of referendum,...
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Football Governance Bill [Lords]

27/04/2025Commons

1 contribution
Congratulations to Liverpool fans. As we have been hearing this evening, footbal...
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Child Rape Gangs

27/04/2025Commons

1 contribution
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 ...
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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...
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Sentencing Council Guidelines

31/03/2025Commons

2 contributions
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...
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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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