Following the Ministerial statement on the impact of Storm Henk on communities across the UK, James Sunderland asks about discussions the Government is having with Thames Water to better protect our public health infrastructure from rainwater and floodwater and therefore limiting discharges from outflows.
James Sunderland raises concerns about political bias in the BBC, particularly in the commentary of individual presenters and in tweets, and calls on the BBC to do more to ensure that it remains impartial as a public service broadcaster in order to justify its publicly funded license fee.
Following the statement in the House of Commons on the Government’s response to Bishop James Jones’s report on the experience of the families of the 97 people killed in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, James Sunderland seeks assurance that sufficient legal and institutional protections are now in place to help prevent another event like Hillsborough.
Following the Defence Secretary’s statement to the House of Commons on UK military deployments to the middle east, James Sunderland receives an assurance that British forces will not become involved in any military action unless it is in direct support of British interests or British nationals.
James Sunderland seeks assurance that political resolve in NATO will remain strong even if the war in Ukraine becomes protracted and attritional and asks what is being done to ensure that all NATO countries pay their 2% share of defence spending.