In Parliament - Karen Buck MP

Here you’ll find all the speeches I’ve made and the questions I’ve asked in Parliament as MP for Westminster North.

I do my best to speak up on the issues that really matter to our community and our country. If you ever want to know where I stand on something that matters to you, please feel free to email me at buckk@parliament.uk

Trade Deal with Australia: British Food Standards

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

The Secretary of State will be aware that environmental, animal welfare and farming groups have all expressed their concern about both the small print in the deal and the precedent that it sets....

Trade Deal with Australia: British Food Standards

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on maintaining British food standards in a future trade deal with Australia.

Evictions and Homelessness

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

Even before the effect of the end of the evictions ban, a quarter of all homeless households in London were being accommodated away from their home areas—away from their schools, their...

Evictions and Homelessness

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

What assessment he has made of the potential effect of ending the moratorium on evictions on levels of (a) evictions and (b) homelessness.

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claims for people living in supported exempt accommodation in England were made (a) as at 31 March 2021 and (b) in...

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of housing benefit claimants who were living in supported exempt accommodation by (a)...

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of housing benefit spent on supported exempt accommodation in England in 2020.

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to universal claimant feedback entitled 54. I - Paper BTL02 – UC Claimants: In Their Own Words reviewed by the Universal...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Universal Credit Programme Board was provided with any further direct claimant feedback to review at its meeting on 21 March 2019...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to universal claimant feedback entitled 54. I - Paper BTL02 – UC Claimants: In Their Own Words reviewed by the Universal...

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of housing benefit claimants living in supported exempt accommodation who were (a)...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to universal credit claimant feedback entitled 54. I - Paper BTL02 – UC Claimants: In Their Own Words reviewed by the...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to universal credit claimant feedback in the file entitled 54. I - Paper BTL02 – UC Claimants: In Their Own Words,...

Children's Centres and Family Hubs

Department for Education

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children aged five and under accessed programmes through children’s centres and family hubs in each English local authority area in the...

Universal Credit: Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the the median (a) gap between rent and the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and (b) deduction for...

Universal Credit: Housing

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of universal credit claims in the private rented sector with housing entitlement (a) where...

Safe Streets for All

Debate on the Address

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

So much of the legislation and policy that we discuss in this House is experienced by people through the filter of local government: it is experienced locally rather than through a national...

Antisemitic Attacks

Commons debates

I am glad that Westminster North is home to a large Jewish community. It is also home to the largest Arab community in Britain. Many people, across party, work very hard to ensure community...

Support for Tenants with Rent Arrears

Work and Pensions

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

With the end of the eviction ban imminent, more than half of claimants needing help with housing costs face a shortfall between the help available and their actual rent—£100 a month in...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minutes, Paper 1, deposited in the Library on 15 April 2021, if she will publish an...