Your voice in Parliament - Paula Sherriff MP

Insecure Work and the Gig Economy

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend and I have heard from members of our trade union, GMB, who work in warehouses in Yorkshire on relentless shift patterns, which means that they never actually get a weekend....

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding for the implementation of proposals relating to the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper will be...

Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the £1.25 billion allocated for the implementation of the Future in Mind strategy has been spent in each year of the...

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implementation of Local Transformation Plans for child and adolescent mental health services;...

Mental Health Workforce

Health and Social Care

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

According to data from 48 of 56 NHS mental health trusts, 3,652 patients suffered an injury in 2016-17 through being restrained—the highest number ever. There are concerns that increased...

Acquired Brain Injury

NHS Long-Term Plan

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank my hon. Friend for those suggestions, and I hope that Minister will respond to them. It is clear that my hon. Friend cares so much about this issue. Neuro-rehabilitation is one of the...

Acquired Brain Injury

NHS Long-Term Plan

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

This has been an excellent debate, and I thank all Members for their contributions. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), whose persistence week after week has...

Topical Questions

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

Dewsbury town centre is a shadow of its former self and has the second highest rate of vacant units in the country. Will the Minister tell me exactly what the Government are doing to deal with...

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) children and (b) adolescents admitted to out of area mental health beds in 2017-18.

Business of the House

Commons debates

Earlier this week, I spoke to the House about my constituent Alex Hodgson who pays £285 a month to travel to work near Manchester. So far he has had to take a number of days’ annual...

Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Commons debates

I think my hon. Friend has ably demonstrated this in her speech, but does she agree that, for the vast majority of women, the decision to have an abortion, at whatever stage, is a heart-rending...

Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for securing this very important debate. Does she agree that because abortion has not been decriminalised in Northern Ireland, women are still going for...

Rail Timetabling

Commons debates

What a mess! How would the Secretary of State respond to my constituent who contacted my office this morning to say that he has already had to use a significant portion of his annual leave...

Business of the House

Commons debates

With the closure of the Huddersfield employment and support allowance assessment centre, many vulnerable, sick and disabled people from my constituency will face a return journey of more than...

Marks & Spencer

Commons debates

Will the Minister tell us whether the closures will affect any Marks & Spencer hospital branches? If she is meeting the company, will she raise the scandal of the higher prices in these shops...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons debates

The Minister seems to be referring to some utopian paradise with his talk of all the great things about the current rail system. Has he looked at Twitter this week and seen the complaints of many...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons debates

Thank you for calling me in this important debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. Like my party’s Front Benchers and others, I really am very happy to see this Government, with no hint of irony,...

Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions

Gaza: Un Human Rights Council Vote

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Leader of the House. Does she agree that it would be appropriate to lay the money resolution and allow this House to debate it in the usual way, and then, if the Government wished,...

Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions

Gaza: Un Human Rights Council Vote

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Leader of the House give way?

Gaza: Un Human Rights Council Vote

Commons debates

Israel has maintained a temporary occupation for 51 years. It builds settlements illegally, demolishes homes illegally, confiscates land and water from occupied territory and blockades Gaza by...