Speeches

Eleanor Laing has raised the issue of the EU Referendum during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons.

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Speaking in the Cost of Living debate on the Queen’s Speech, Eleanor Laing backs measures to support people who work hard, look after their families and contribute to their communities.

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Following the Home Secretary’s statement to the House of Commons on the case of Abu Qatada, Eleanor Laing says that the problems have been made more difficult by the human rights legislation passed by the previous Government.  read more »

Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing has welcomed an announcement that a programme of events is being planned to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of explorer and adventurer David Livingstone who had close ties with Ongar.  read more »

Speaking during the special Parliamentary debate, Eleanor Laing pays tribute to the achievements of Baroness Thatcher.  read more »

Eleanor Laing criticises proposals to eject Trident from an independent Scotland and says that in reality a Scotland separate from the rest of the UK would still be dependent on England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the United States, France and the rest of NATO for its defence.  read more »

Eleanor Laing asks the Government if there has been as assessment of why small businesses were winning such a small share of Government procurement contracts when it came to power three years ago.  read more »

Eleanor Laing welcomes the Government’s backing for proposals she first put before the House in June last year which will allow voters in the queue outside a polling station at closing time to vote.  read more »

Eleanor Laing welcomes the Bill which will change the rules on the line of royal succession, but questions the need to rush though several stages of such an important piece of constitutional legislation in a single day.  read more »

Eleanor Laing receives reassurance from the Prime Minister that new rules on the line of royal succession will be put in place in time to ensure that should the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child be a girl, she will become our Queen.  read more »

Eleanor Laing welcomes the Third Reading of the Mobile Homes Bill which will now progress to the House of Lords.  read more »

Eleanor Laing leads a Parliamentary debate on Scotland and the Union and tells MPs “Scotland is better off as part of the UK and the rest of the UK is better off together with Scotland”.  read more »

Responding to the decision by the General Synod on women bishops, Eleanor Laing asks if the established Church deliberately sets itself against the general principles of the society that it represents, its position as the established Church should be called into question?  read more »

Following the Government statement on European Court of Human Rights’ judgments on prisoner voting, Eleanor Laing asks what sanctions are available to the ECHR should they judge the UK Government’s actions not to have complied with their ruling on prisoner voting.  read more »

Eleanor Laing calls for any debate on giving the Scottish Parliament the power to conduct a referendum - a significant piece of constitutional legislation that will affect the entire United Kingdom - to take place in the main chamber of the House of Commons and for a whole day.  read more »

Eleanor Laing backs a call by Basildon MP, Stephen Metcalfe, for public sector organisations to sign up to the Prompt Payment Code to address the problem of late payment to small businesses.  read more »

Eleanor Laing leads a Parliamentary debate on the tragic case of two-and-a-half-year-old Rhiya Malin who died in the care of her nursery which subsequently evaded Ofsted inspection by re-registering two months before the inspection was due and thereby effectively wiping the record clean.  read more »

Speaking in a debate on Government action to tackle ash dieback disease, Eleanor Laing calls for the EU to do more to protect our precious, ancient forests from airborne diseases and diseases imported from Europe.  read more »

Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing has given her strong support to a parliamentary Bill on mobile home sites which includes a reform of the licensing arrangements.  read more »

Following the statement to the Commons on the referendum on independence for Scotland, Eleanor Laing welcomes the fact that there will be a single, decisive question to that the future of Scotland as part of the United Kingdom—to the benefit of everyone in every part of the United Kingdom—can be decided once and for all.  read more »