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

Covid-19: Child Maintenance Service

Commons debates

This has been a welcome, albeit brief, opportunity to consider an essential service, and I thank the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows) for securing it. We have heard some...

Covid-19: Vaccinations

Commons debates

Following on very closely from the previous question, does the Minister agree that one of the key ways in which we can counter some of the very virulent anti-vax and covid denial messages on...

Education: Return in January

Commons debates

If I may continue on the theme of resources for home-based learning, we know that it is less satisfactory than children being at school but infinitely better than nothing. Unfortunately, nine...

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

People want to spend the Christmas holiday with their loved ones—of course they do—and the message of doing so with care is one that we all must stress, but given the very worrying...

County Lines: Safeguarding

Home Department

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

In my constituency there is one estate where it is believed that at least 20 county lines are being run. We have had a spate of killings this year, including two teenagers, one of whom died only...

County Lines: Safeguarding

Home Department

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps she is taking to tackle county lines drug trafficking and safeguard vulnerable children from exploitation.

Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation - [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

We could have had a whole day of debate on this important and wide-ranging subject. We heard a number of superb speeches. I hope that we will return to this because a number of questions remain...

Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation - [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Before the Minister moves off that point, will she explain exactly why, if the Government are spending more money, homelessness has risen by 14% in the last year alone?

Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation - [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered homelessness and temporary accommodation. It is a pleasure to speak in this debate under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I am grateful for the...

Spending Review 2020

Work and Pensions

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

The fact is that the number of children in poverty in the private rented sector rose by half a million between 2010 and 2019, so whatever uplift has been put in over the past year is in that...

Spending Review 2020

Work and Pensions

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

The Secretary of State announced that the local housing allowance would again be frozen in cash terms in 2021, having only moved out of the previous freeze in March. That means, as the Office for...

Coronavirus Outbreak: DWP Response

Commons debates

I will start by congratulating the Select Committee on a superb report, as always, and on the introduction by the Chair of the Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen...

Leaseholders and Cladding

Commons debates

We have already heard about the difficulties that leaseholders have had with the EWS1 form backlog when they are seeking to sell. At the weekend, the Secretary of State claimed that his proposal...

Train Operating Companies

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made changes to the governance arrangements for train operating companies as a result of the decision made by the Office for National...

Train Operating Companies: Finance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish details of the performance terms and conditions applied to train operating companies in receipt of covid-19-related funding to...

Southern: Coronavirus

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the emergency funding provided to the national railways, whether he has asked Southern Railway to deliver an assessment of the...

Southern: Coronavirus

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to emergency funding provided to the national railways, what cumulative efficiency savings he has asked Southern Railway to achieve by...

Public Transport: Concessions

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government funds (a) travel concessions and (b) other benefits to (i) rail and (ii) bus travellers in England outside London.

Train Operating Companies: Finance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of financial support provided to train operating companies (a) individually and (b) in total during the period from (i) 31...

Train Operating Companies: Finance

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish his Department's estimate of the total covid-19-related financial support to be provided to train operating companies, by each...