In Parliament - Karen Buck

Parliament has now dissolved for the General Election on Thursday 12 December so there are no Members of Parliament until after the election.

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 an issue that matters to you, please feel free to email me at karen@westminsterlabour.org

Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Commons debates

The inquiry and the Government’s wider response had two obligations. One was to get justice for the families and survivors of the Grenfell disaster, and the other was to make sure that...

Engagements

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

In my constituency, the squeeze on Government spending has meant that we have a third fewer police than we had in 2010, we have lost half our children’s centres and the state of disrepair...

Environment Bill

Commons debates

I thank the Secretary of State very much. On air quality, will she join me in congratulating the Mayor of London on the success of the ultra low emission zone, which has seen such a dramatic fall...

Diabetes: Tailored Prevention Messaging - [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Earlier, I was advising the right hon. Gentleman not to stray in terms of breadth, not in terms of length.

Diabetes: Tailored Prevention Messaging - [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

indicated dissent.

Diabetes: Tailored Prevention Messaging - [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Order. I gently encourage the right hon. Gentleman to stay within the topic.

Topical Questions

Oral Answers to Questions - Justice

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

The number of civil legal aid providers has fallen by a third since 2013. In February, the Government announced, under the legal support plan, a review of criminal legal aid providers. Will the...

Independent Case Examiner

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 Independent Case Examiner’s Office budget is for 2019-20.

Independent Case Examiner

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, if she will set out the performance targets for the determination of complaints to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office in 2019-20.

Domestic Abuse Bill

Commons debates

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Deaths of Homeless People

Commons debates

My local authority, Westminster, has the highest number of rough sleepers in the country. Its rough sleeping strategy found that a third of rough sleepers had been discharged on to the streets...

Health Infrastructure Plan

Commons debates

With a £1.3 billion maintenance backlog, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which includes St Mary’s, which serves my constituency, faces the largest challenges in the country and...

Prime Minister's Update

Commons debates

Tonight the Prime Minister has made calculatedly inflammatory comments against parliamentarians, and he will be accountable for the consequences of that language, but I want to ask him about the...

Engagements

The Prime Minister Was Asked

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

As a result of budget cuts to the Home Office, largely enacted while the right hon. Gentleman was Mayor of London, police numbers plummeted: we have 1,000 fewer officers in the west London...

Workplace Deaths: Scotland

Westminster Hall debates

Order. Interventions should be short.

Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness - [Mr Adrian Bailey in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

A temporary one.

Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness - [Mr Adrian Bailey in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The whole point of discretionary housing payments is that they are temporary, so they do not provide a solution to any of these problems.

Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness - [Mr Adrian Bailey in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating London Councils, which has been doing some excellent research? It found that, even over the period of targeted affordability funding, single rooms...

Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness - [Mr Adrian Bailey in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. Central London, which includes my constituency, is the largest private rental market in the country. There...

Power to apply Act to further high speed rail works

High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill

Karen Buck made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I propose that we debate clauses 49 to 60 together.