Your voice in Parliament - Paula Sherriff MP

Rural Roads: HGV Traffic

Oral Answers to Questions - Transport

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

The A637 runs through the lovely village of Flockton in my constituency. It is a narrow road and is increasingly used by rat runners and HGVs, despite a prohibition order. There have been many...

Teachers: Pensions

Department for Education

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide additional financial support to universities to cover the increase in employer contributions to the Teachers' Pension...

Extent, Commencement and Short Title

Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

What assurances can the Minister give that the regulations will be genuinely co-created with practitioners and cared-for people? If they are not, how can we be sure that the amendments are not a...

Employment: Epilepsy

Department for Work and Pensions

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of people with epilepsy entering employment.

Legislation Against Female Genital Mutilation

Commons debates

Women who have been subjected as children to the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation are much more susceptible to contracting cervical cancer, and it can also make smear tests much...

Topical Questions

Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

I recently met a group of people who, despite having severe and unstable epilepsy, had been denied benefits. The questions asked by the assessors appeared to be completely irrelevant to their...

Business of the House

Commons debates

As the House will know, I have never shied away from dealing with issues that some people might consider taboo, and today I want to talk about incontinence. Last Friday, along with my hon. Friend...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Batley Homeless Project, Dewsbury Cares and Churches Together in Dewsbury do amazing voluntary work, but Sarah Watkinson of Winter Warmers of Mirfield is now taking the space-type blankets that...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

I want to make the point about homeless women who may not have access to sanitary products, and how undignified it must be not to have access to those products and to a bathroom. I support the...

Rough Sleeping - [Mr Virendra Sharma in the Chair]

Backbench Business

Paula Sherriff made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

Virtually every evening, as we walk out of this place into the tube station, we pass a number of homeless people. The Government must take time to reflect on which of their policies makes the...

Police Grant Report

Commons debates

Does the Home Secretary agree that as a result of having 21,000 fewer police officers on our streets, our intelligence-gathering capabilities have been severely restricted? Does he also agree...

Knife Crime Prevention Orders

Commons debates

Police numbers slashed and youth services and other services that support troubled families and vulnerable individuals cut to the bone will be a familiar tale to many in this House. The...

Further Education: Economic Sustainability

Oral Answers to Questions - Education

Paula Sherriff made a speech in the House of Commons

At our last Question Time I raised the case of Greenhead College in Kirklees, which is worried that continued cuts in post-16 education are threatening standards. The Minister said that the...

Mental Health Services: Termination of Employment

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 many mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.

Mental Health Services: Staff

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 many (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.

Business of the House

Commons debates

I have been contacted by a group of women in my constituency who have been adversely affected by changes to their state pension age. They are struggling to make ends meet, and it is not good...

Religion: Community Relations

Women and Equalities

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

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding her Department has allocated to interfaith projects in each of the last three years.

Appropriate Me Treatment

Commons debates

My constituent has to travel 40-odd miles to Manchester for treatment. With a condition such as ME, that is particularly distressing. Does the right hon. Lady agree that we need many more...

Appropriate Me Treatment

Commons debates

I congratulate the hon. Lady on her sterling work on this issue. It is my privilege to represent Lucy, a lovely teenage girl in my constituency who has ME. Her parents have requested me to ask...

Appropriate Me Treatment

Commons debates

Will the hon. Lady give way, on that point?