Speeches

Following his statement on recent long delays at the Gibraltar border-crossing with Spain, Eleanor Laing calls on the Minister for Europe to urge the Spanish Government to ensure that local authorities in the area act in a way that does not deliberately make life difficult for the people of Gibraltar.  read more »

Responding to the Deputy Prime Minister’s statement on the Government’s decision to withdraw the House of Lords Reform Bill, Eleanor Laing challenges him on his party’s decision not to support the boundaries legislation which will reduce the number of MPs.  read more »

Eleanor Laing calls on the Home Secretary for reassurance that policing levels will not be adversely affected by the need to provide additional security at the Olympics.  read more »

Eleanor Laing backs calls for action on changing the law of succession.  read more »

Eleanor Laing opposes the Deputy PM's proposals to reform the House of Lords as under the proposals members would be unaccountable, there has been no consultation and members would be elected by proportional representation - a system recently rejected in a national referendum.  read more »

Speaking in a debate on the Electoral Registration Bill, Eleanor Laing moves an amendment that would allow for ballot papers to be issued to any registered voter who is in the polling station or in a queue immediately outside at the time the poll closes. This would prevent a repeat of the situation at the last general election when more than 1,000 voters waiting in the queue at 10pm were denied the right to vote.  read more »

Speaking during the debate on the Culture Secretary and the Ministerial Code, Eleanor Laing points out that Jeremy Hunt would never had been put in the position of being responsible for the decision on BSkyB if the decision hadn’t had to be removed from the Business Secretary.  read more »

Speaking during a debate on the Falkland Islands Government announcement that it will hold a referendum on the political status of the islands, Eleanor Laing highlights the importance of international observers so that there can be no argument over the result.  read more »

Eleanor Laing welcomes the long overdue changes to electoral registration which will make every individual voter responsible for registering themselves to vote and not have to rely on their ‘head of household’.  read more »

Eleanor Laing asks the Deputy Prime Minister about the difficulty of preserving the primacy of the House of Commons if there were an elected House of Lords.  read more »

Speaking in the debate on the Queen’s Speech, Eleanor Laing welcomes reform of the House of Lords, but reaffirms her concerns that an elected House of Lords would undermine the position of the elected Members of the House of Commons and make them less likely to be able to hold the Government to account.  read more »

Speaking during a debate on the Scotland Bill, which devolves further fiscal powers to Scotland, Eleanor Laing backs a Lords amendment which requires an annual report to both Parliaments bringing greater transparency and scrutiny to the economic fiscal affairs of the whole of the United Kingdom.  read more »

Eleanor Laing backs a motion to support of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ policy for prosecutors in respect of cases of encouraging or assisting suicide which protect a person’s dignity by allowing them to die in a manner of their choice.  read more »

Eleanor Laing welcomes the introduction of individual electoral registration and she says that it is an individual’s responsibility to register to vote.  read more »

Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing is supporting a campaign launched by a local family after their daughter was attacked by an out-of-control dog.  read more »

Speaking during a Parliamentary debate on International Women’s Day, Eleanor Laing pays tribute to the work of UN Women - the United Nations entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women.  read more »

Eleanor Laing MP supports a motion to honour Her Majesty the Queen in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee and tells MPs that the Queen has been a “shining example and a wonderful inspiration” to women in particular.  read more »

Following a question about disability payments, Eleanor Laing tells MPs we are better off raising money to fund benefits for those most in need by “working together as one United Kingdom”.  read more »

Eleanor Laing calls on the Government to ensure that the worldwide advertising campaign to promote UK tourism ahead of the Olympics also publicises Olympic venues outside London, such as the white water centre in Waltham Abbey, and encourages people to visit local attractions.  read more »

Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing has told the Government ‘enough is enough’ with regards to peoples’ human rights.  read more »