United Kingdom parliament

John Hayes

Member of Parliament · Conservative

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

9 sittings with a confirmed speech

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Latest speeches

  1. Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 14 September 2026

    • Historic privatisation, evidence of failure, and case for public ownership

      “The honourable gentleman is well known for his courtesy and as he's just illustrated, I'm extremely grateful to him. And even more shockingly, 80% of many of these water companies are foreign owned. In other words, the majority of their…”
      Watch from 8:53

    • Clive Lewis: historical rationale and wider public-control argument

      “Extremely grateful, and it's apposite that he should because Joe Chamberlain is a great hero of mine. Indeed, his portrait sat in my office when I was a minister. What Joe Chamberlain understood was the balance between private interest and…”
      Watch from 32:57

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

    • Q5 Apprenticeships: 14–19 technical pathways and parity of esteem

      “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You will recall, Mr. Speaker, and the Minister in his earlier life will too, that when I was the Skills Minister, we built the biggest number of apprenticeships in modern history. And I did so because…”
      Watch from 1:05:01

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

    • Medical and mental health perspectives on capacity and safeguards

      “And she's absolutely right. And what this debate is illustrating is a difference across this house. Is the difference between those who feel that individual agency is always supreme and those who like her and me and many others believe…”
      Watch from 3:01:00

    • Medical and mental health perspectives on capacity and safeguards

      “I'm grateful to my honourable friend for giving way. And what we're now saying to those clinicians is we want you to do much, much more. We want you to judge whether people have been coerced. We want you to…”
      Watch from 3:24:31

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

    • Backbench business and topical issues: suicide prevention, RNLI, local concerns

      “Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Cruel experiments on children are the stuff of dystopian fiction or the fact of past tyrannies. Yet as the shadow minister, the honourable lady for Beaconsfield reminded us, such experiments are taking place here and…”
      Watch from 2:13:02

    • Backbench debate on social housing: disposals, Capita, domestic abuse and empty homes

      “I thank the Honourable Lady for giving way. She's making a really important point about empty homes. When I was the Shadow Housing Minister 20 years ago, the Empty Homes Agency estimated 700,000 empty homes in England and Wales alone.…”
      Watch from 6:39:49

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

    • Infants, Parents and Carers Bill: Swayne: purpose and clauses

      “I'm extremely grateful to my honorable friend for giving way. He, as a former schoolmaster, will be familiar with the work of Piaget, who makes exactly that point, that early development, prior attainment as it's often called, is a determinant…”
      Watch from 18:07

    • Evidence base and Sure Start legacy: Helen Hayes

      “The honorable lady's making a powerful speech about Sure Start and in particular about the capacity to deliver face-to-what she describes as face-to-face services. It is critically important that they are delivered in precisely that way, in person, because of…”
      Watch from 34:26

    • New parents’ perspectives and maternity inequalities

      “I'm extremely grateful to my honorable friend and who I've come to know and become a friend of over over recent times. She will understand that although it's very easy for us to imagine the vulnerability of unborn and born…”
      Watch from 49:22

  6. Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 16 July 2026

    • NPPF debate opening: Yatton floodplain housing case

      “She will be familiar that the Lincolnshire Fens, and particularly South Holland and the Deepings that I represent, are entirely flat, without even the undulations she's described of the Mendip Hills or an equivalent. And that our land is drained,…”
      Watch from 22:47

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