United Kingdom parliament

Debbie Abrahams

Member of Parliament · Labour

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

11 sittings with a confirmed speech

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Latest speeches

  1. House of Commons · House of Commons · 8 September 2026

    • Foreign Secretary statement: Israel-Palestine policy and settlement sanctions

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. And can I thank my right honourable friend for his statement and congratulate him not just in terms of the content but also the tone that he delivered that. He has elevated the status not…”
      Watch from 3:19:53

  2. Work and Pensions Committee · House of Commons · 2 September 2026

    • Opening and safeguarding inquiry context

      “And a very warm welcome to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's inquiry into safeguarding one year on review. And we're joined today for this session by Sir Stephen Timms, who's the Minister for Social Security and Disability. And you…”
      Watch from 0:01

    • Minister: safeguarding progress and culture change

      “Thank you. So you may have seen or had a briefing from the June session for the first oral evidence session in this review inquiry. And we had members from the from NARA as well as the joint convenor of…”
      Watch from 3:54

    • ACSSL role, access issues and clinical input to policy

      “Okay. You mentioned in your in your remarks at the start, Stephen, that that there has been a change in in culture. And again, that was something that they picked up and they really queried whether that is actually the…”
      Watch from 5:59
    9 more clips in this sitting

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

    • Responses to PM statement: Opposition scrutiny, defence, migration, tax and institutional reform

      “Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker. And can I welcome my right honorable friend to to his place and also thank him for his statement. I particularly agree with him in what he was saying around social security and tackling…”
      Watch from 2:24:10

  4. House of Commons · House of Commons · 16 July 2026

    • Select Committee Statement: Transition to State Pension Age

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I want to express my gratitude to the Backbench Business Committee for granting the opportunity to present this Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the inquiry into the transition to state pension age,…”
      Watch from 4:49:00

  5. Work and Pensions Committee · House of Commons · 15 July 2026

    • Speech

      “Good morning everyone, and a very warm welcome to this oral evidence session on the Child Maintenance Service. And we're very welcoming to Abigail Wood, Sara D'Arcy, and Sam Morfey. Would you like to introduce yourselves and your organisations before…”
      Watch from 0:02

    • Opening of session and witness introductions

      “Thank you very much. So we've all got questions for you and I'm going to start. And I just wondered from your perspective, how you think the Child Maintenance Service is doing on a scale of one to ten, and…”
      Watch from 1:19

    • Initial CMS performance ratings and systemic failures

      “Can you just expand on that, Abigail, in terms of how does it actually make things worse?”
      Watch from 6:56
    5 more clips in this sitting

  6. Education Committee and Work and Pensions Committee · House of Commons · 14 July 2026

    • Ambition and rejection of statutory poverty targets

      “Thank you. Good morning, ministers, and thank you for joining us. I just wanted to start off by saying I absolutely agree with you that this the work that you're doing and the start that has been made around reduction…”
      Watch from 16:56

    • Ambition and rejection of statutory poverty targets

      “Okay, and we hear hear that point, but if I could read out, well I won't read out, but that we have so many representations, dozens of representations, including from UNICEF, including from the UK Health Foundation, the Royal College…”
      Watch from 20:44

    • Ambition and rejection of statutory poverty targets

      “And there's a difference between having good targets and targets, as you say, that have bad unintended consequences. You would factor that in in terms of how you set your targets. Thank you so much. I wonder if James might…”
      Watch from 25:52
    2 more clips in this sitting

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