Mr Paul Sweeney - Contributions

Mr Paul Sweeney

Labour (Co-op)
Commons, Glasgow North East (2017 - present)

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Social Media Consultancies

Commons Chamber on 25 April 201825/04/2018

It is rather ironic that the SNP submitted this question en masse, given its subsequent unwillingness to offer basic transparency over the party’s dealings with Cambridge Analytica, but I hope that today the Secretary of State can be more transparent tha...

GKN

Commons Chamber on 24 April 201824/04/2018

Takeovers are a good thing where they are likely to enhance value, but it is clear that this highly leveraged takeover by Melrose is likely simply to load GKN with £8 billion of debt. We know what will happen, as we have learned the lessons of history: t...

Street Homelessness

Westminster Hall on 24 April 201824/04/2018

My hon. Friend gives very good examples of people who are homeless being given assistance. I wonder whether she will share my dismay at a letter that I received from Eleanor Wilson, a medical student in Glasgow, last night. She said that she witnessed, i...

Street Homelessness

Westminster Hall on 24 April 201824/04/2018

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point about the trapped nature of many homeless people. I recently visited a homeless shelter in Glasgow and I discovered a vicious cycle for people who might get a job, but they cannot then secure it because they...

Windrush

Commons Chamber on 23 April 201823/04/2018

As a new Member of Parliament representing a constituency with one of the highest immigrant populations in Scotland, I have had the eye-opening experience of constituents coming to my office in tears because they are in terrible situations, with the Home...

Voter ID Pilots

Commons Chamber on 23 April 201823/04/2018

The Minister mentions Canada, but in the last general election my constituency had the lowest turnout in the UK, and that is combined with a low registration rate. If this policy is rolled out at a general election, how on earth will it help my constitue...

Business of the House

Commons Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

On Monday, I had great pleasure in attending Channel 4’s announcement of the biggest restructuring of the channel in its 35-year history, with the “4 all the UK” programme to disperse its headquarters out of London to different cities around the UK. I ha...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

T4. There is mounting concern on the Clyde that an active programme is being undertaken by Peel Ports, which owns both the Clydeport authority and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, to plough billions of pounds of investment into Merseyside at the ex...

HS2: Extension to Scotland

Commons Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

Will the Minister guarantee that, once HS2 is fully constructed, the journey time between Glasgow and Manchester will not be any longer than it is currently?

HS2: Extension to Scotland

Commons Chamber on 19 April 201819/04/2018

17. What assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending High Speed 2 to Scotland.

Industrial Strategy

Commons Chamber on 18 April 201818/04/2018

Although it is easy to adopt a declinist outlook about Scotland’s long-term industrial trajectory over the past century, it is important that we do not view the loss of the once iconic staple industries of shipbuilding, steel and coal, which had their ge...

Industrial Strategy

Commons Chamber on 18 April 201818/04/2018

The Secretary of State mentions the critical need to attract high-quality education graduates from across the world to British universities. Does he also recognise that that is a critical part of growing our population? In Scotland, we had a declining po...

Leaving the EU: Scotland and Wales Continuity Bills

Commons Chamber on 18 April 201818/04/2018

The blame for this mess lies squarely with the UK Government and the Secretary of State for Scotland for rushing legislation through this place without proper amendment, as I and other Opposition colleagues warned. As the party that delivered devolution...

Syria

Commons Chamber on 16 April 201816/04/2018

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point about the Assad regime’s continued aerial bombardment against civilian populations in Syria. Does she agree that one of the Government’s critical objectives must be to ensure that they pursue the objective of an in...

Business of the House

Commons Chamber on 16 April 201816/04/2018

Will the Leader of the House also consider taking away the excellent recommendation from the Father of the House to form a cross-party commission to examine and clarify the role of Parliament vis-à-vis the Executive on the question of deploying British f...

Syria

Commons Chamber on 16 April 201816/04/2018

All right-thinking Members of this House will utterly abhor the atrocious use of chemical weapons against the civilian population of Syria, which constitutes a gratuitous war crime upon that population. But the Prime Minister said there was an immediate...

Easter Adjournment

Commons Chamber on 29 March 201829/03/2018

I thank the deputy Leader of the House, if that is his official title, for giving way. I want to press him on the issue of GKN, because it has just been announced that it will be subject to a takeover by Melrose. In the light of that development, does th...

Easter Adjournment

Commons Chamber on 29 March 201829/03/2018

After nine months in the House, clearly there is still a learning curve. I pay tribute to you, Mr Speaker, to your colleagues in the Chair, and to all Members—Whips and others—who have been so generous in offering their insight and advice. As a new Me...

Autism

Commons Chamber on 29 March 201829/03/2018

I was actually at Glasgow University at the same time as Lauri Love, and I remember him well from those days. The situation that my hon. Friend mentions is critical and exactly what we now need to tackle in the UK. We need a national approach, including...

Counter-Daesh Update

Commons Chamber on 29 March 201829/03/2018

I raised the issue of Afrin with the Foreign Secretary some weeks ago and sought his assurance about what discussions he has had with the Turkish Government and our NATO allies about how they are safeguarding the law of armed conflict in relation to civ...

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