United Kingdom parliament

Meg Hillier

Member of Parliament · Labour

Transcripts of what Meg Hillier said in Parliament, sitting by sitting. Only speeches whose speaker is confirmed are shown.

21 sittings with a confirmed speech

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Latest speeches

  1. House of Commons · House of Commons · 15 September 2026

    • Treasury Committee statement – inquiry into student loans

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I am pleased to rise to make a statement on the government's response to the Treasury Select Committee's report on the student loan system. I think it's worth laying out first what our inquiry…”
      Watch from 4:10:25

    • Student loans – state vs graduate contribution and transparency reforms

      “I can tell the government that it doesn't feel like that to many of my constituents and those of my fellow committee members who can read the government's own forecasts of repayments which show that for the average undergraduate starting…”
      Watch from 4:13:46

    • Student loans – FCA consumer duty, RPI interest and threshold freeze

      “So we would like the government to explain which elements of the Financial Conduct Authority's consumer duty it feels it cannot comply with, given it doesn't want to commit to doing so at this stage. And we're disappointed on another…”
      Watch from 4:16:16
    1 more clip in this sitting

  2. Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 15 September 2026

    • Corbyn and Hillier: insurance costs, local cases and ‘tolerable’ risk

      “Thank you, Dr. Morrison. A pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and I welcome warmly the Minister to her post. I have met most of her predecessors. I don't need to keep meeting her, I just hope she will be…”
      Watch from 29:27

    • Minister Eshalomi: government response on PAS 9980, skills, insurance and costs

      “I'm grateful for giving way, and I welcome that step, but that suggests that this is some way off, and I wondered if she could give some indication of the timescale for getting this mandatory licensing in place.”
      Watch from 1:14:54

  3. House of Commons · House of Commons · 14 September 2026

    • Liaison and Procedure Chairs: virtual participation and acting select committee chairs

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I rise to speak on the motion about substituting members if a member takes leave and on virtual participation. And I want to put on record my thanks to the Modernisation Committee and also…”
      Watch from 4:17:44

  4. House of Commons · House of Commons · 11 September 2026

    • Polling, public will and Lords’ obstruction

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The honorable lady talks about who makes our laws and has talked in articles she's written about the primacy of this place. So if this bill were to go forward, is she willing to accept…”
      Watch from 41:30

    • Mims Davies and Meg Hillier: flawed text, funding and auto‑commencement

      “I thank the honorable lady for giving way. Is she not like me then puzzled that the sponsor brought back the same bill despite there being many amendments that the sponsor in the Lords agreed needed to be made and…”
      Watch from 3:19:06

  5. House of Commons · House of Commons · 10 September 2026

    • Q11 Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: scale, administration and NAO critique

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and in my right honourable friend's and I welcome her to her place at response. It demonstrates really the complications of these schemes. I'd asked the National Audit Office to look into this and yesterday…”
      Watch from 30:30

  6. Treasury Committee · House of Commons · 9 September 2026

    • Opening: HMRC leadership, priorities and performance

      “Welcome to the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday the 19th of September 2026. Today we're looking at the work of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, one of our regular sessions to examine on behalf of the taxpayer how well the…”
      Watch from 0:01

    • Transformation portfolio, debt management and threat environment

      “Okay, well thank you. You mentioned the Valuation Office, the Valuation Office Agency being incorporated. So that's been quite a, these system changes can take quite a lot of time and energy. So how's that gone and is there anything…”
      Watch from 5:48

    • Valuation Office integration and Welsh council tax surcharge

      “That's coming down the track and so what do you need to have in place to make sure that that works because there's a lot of worry out there that people will have, you know, inspectors visiting their home, checking…”
      Watch from 7:29
    9 more clips in this sitting

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