Your voice in Parliament - Paula Sherriff MP

NHS: Staffing Levels

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Will my hon. Friend give way?

NHS: Staffing Levels

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

NHS: Staffing Levels

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that, as a direct result of staffing shortages at Dewsbury and District Hospital, the midwife-led birthing unit has had to be closed several times? September...

NHS: Staffing Levels

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I thank my hon. Friend and neighbour for securing this important debate. My constituents also use the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. There are still several hundred nursing vacancies there,...

Exiting the European Union

Commons debates

I believe that the Prime Minister, who, incidentally, just last year promised us a strong and stable Administration, attended a lunch today where she said that her deal was the best available....

Rough Sleeping

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

There cannot be a Member in this House who has failed to notice the exponential rise in people sleeping on our streets, and not just in cities such as London, but in places such as Dewsbury,...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Frankly, we could all do with a little bit of Christmas cheer in this place this week, so I will briefly speak about Derek Highe from Robin Royd Avenue in Mirfield. He lights up his house every...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. On Monday, I attended the launch of the GMB “Work to Stop Domestic Abuse” charter, and we heard some...

Trade Agreements: Environmental and Animal Welfare

Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I recently met the lovely children in the reception classes of St John’s infant school in Dewsbury. They have written to the Secretary of State because they have been learning about the...

Offence of threatening with an offensive weapon etc in a private place

Offensive Weapons Bill

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I, too, support my right hon. Friend’s new clause. Does he agree that workers in rural locations, where shops are often single-staffed and the distance from the nearest police station may...

Sanitary Protection: VAT

Paula Sherriff received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment his Department has undertaken under the Equality Act 2010 on (a) gender and (b) other protected characteristics of the...

Sanitary Protection: VAT

Paula Sherriff received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on a potential timeframe for the abolition of VAT on sanitary products.

Sanitary Protection: VAT

Paula Sherriff received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of abolishing VAT on sanitary products in each of the next five years.

RAF Centenary

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I hope you will indulge me, Mr Deputy Speaker, with a little more latitude than is normal on the length of this intervention. My paternal grandfather, Arthur Albert Sherriff, died on 1 February...

Business of the House

Commons debates

On the evening before bonfire night, I spent an eight-hour shift with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Acting firefighter Sherriff was very impressed with its professionalism, but was also...

Yemen: Famine

Department for International Development

Paula Sherriff received a response to a question they put to the government

What steps the Government is taking to respond to the risk of mass famine in Yemen.

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Commons debates

I was delighted to welcome Google to my constituency last Friday, when it delivered internet safety training and training on the appropriate use of data at Boothroyd Primary Academy. What...

Ebola Response Update

Commons debates

According to Médecins Sans Frontières, the delay in recognising the latest outbreak is in part due to a strike by health workers in the area over non-payment of salaries. Will the...

Job Creation since 2010

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

As the Minister knows, many of the jobs created since 2010 are low paid and insecure, and the number of people in in-work poverty has risen. Will she therefore tell us what assessment her...

EU Exit Negotiations

Commons debates

Does the Prime Minister now accept that she inadvertently misled the nation during her now infamous Lancaster House speech, in which she appeared to offer a Utopian vision of Brexit—perhaps...