Toby Perkins MP

Another excellent night of dance with the Karthak Rockers at @AsianAssociati1 Diwali celebration tonight.

Had a fusion of Indian and Irish dancing to end an outstanding evening.

Well done all!

Toby Perkins: 'Biodiversity net gain should be strengthened not scrapped' - LabourList Environmental Audit Committee Chair Toby Perkins argues that scrapping biodiversity net gain would be bad for nature, business and for good housebuilding.

@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social is right to call for stronger Biodiversity Net Gain👇

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We're calling for the scheme to be given increased ambition, loopholes to be closed & more monitoring & enforcement resources to ensure the scheme delivers for nature & building🏡

Thanks @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social for taking time at #Lab25 to meet us. We discussed the importance of ensuring that earlier leukaemia diagnosis is prioritised across the NHS.

I met with @breastcancernow.bsky.social at the launch of their new report and learnt more about the urgent changes needed to ensure people living with incurable secondary breast cancer can access new treatments to give them #MoreTimeToLive

Toby and Amanda walk the Sparkle Night Walk for Ashgate Hospice Help Toby Perkins raise money to support Ashgate Hospice

This weekend is the fabulous @ashgatehospice.bsky.social sparkle walk. This year Amanda and I will be joining the thousands of others at this great event. If you'd like to donate to a fabulous cause, please click on the link below.

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7/ The government’s own impact assessment suggests that 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty by these changes

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enjoy more confidence from the disabled community. The current system is deeply flawed, and these changes seem to reduce the numbers who receive the payment without much improvement to the nuances required to assess who is in need of the payment.

5/ enough to suggest that the government are minded to make the changes that would make the bill palatable and so I hope that, even at this late stage, the government will pause and reflect on how they can achieve their aims of modernising support for disabled people in a way that will

4/ many of whom really need the payment in order to be able to access work or to cope with their disability.
I accept that many well intentioned colleagues are hopeful that through the passage of the bill it will be improved and I respect their choice to take that approach, but I have not heard

3/ I recognise that our welfare system is in need of reform and that there are many positive measures within this bill which I hope the government will continue to pursue. However, I fear that the changes to eligibility for Personal independence payment will hit too many disabled people,

2/ and have met with disability campaigners and those who help the disabled as well as constituents’ who currently receive Personal Independence payment and were set to lose it under these reforms.
I have also listened to government ministers who have set out their aims with this bill.

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I have today added my name to those on the reasoned amendment, initiated by Dame Meg Hiller, which declines to give a second reading to the government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment bill. I have thought long and hard about this 1/

My statement on Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill

As always Feargal Sharkey is great value in this podcast on water industry, Cunliffe report and Thames in particular.
Also great contributions from select committee chairs Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Alastair Carmichael.

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“We live in a country where there is not a single river that is not polluted”

On Committee Corridor, Feargal Sharkey and @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social unpack the issues of our waterways, and select committee efforts to hold the sector to account.

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There is still a lot to do but all in all a very positive meeting and one that we hope that in time will make a difference for our patients now and in the future!
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The meeting was organised with the help of @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social and on the day we were delighted to find that MPs from right across Derbyshire came to the meeting.
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Ashgate leadership team stood with MPs in London with the Lonon Eye in the background.

Our Chief Executive @ashgateba.bsky.social and Deputy Chief Executive @mattcorbishley.bsky.social were invited to the Houses of Parliament earlier this week to talk about the need for fair funding from the NHS for Ashgate.
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Committee Corridor, the podcast from the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Select Committees, is back! This time featuring EAC Chair, @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social 📢

Don’t miss Episode 3, Season 5 – out Thursday 22 May 🎧

In the House of Commons today, our Chair @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social spoke about the Committee's report on the role of natural capital in the UK’s green economy.

Read the report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

White text on a green background reading: “I am alarmed by today’s report from the Climate Change Committee. With typical clarity, it suggests that the UK is not on the right track today. While another path is still possible, it must act quickly and decisively.” Toby Perkins MP, Chair

Our Chair @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social reacts to @thecccuk.bsky.social's climate adaption report which found the UK's preparations for climate change to be inadequate and disjointed.

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Good to join EastMidsLabour candidate for Linacre and Loundsley Green division Elizabth Smith, out meeting voters in Somersall Park area

Another Chesterfield morning, another Brampton cafe visit!

The new Amanda's cafe at the Monkey Park on Clifton Street is back in business.

A lovely cuppa and a naughty breakfast cob set me up for the day.

Get along and join them for tasty cakes too.

WATCH- Select Committees rightly spend great deal of time hearing from staleholders and experts.

Last week @commonseac.parliament.uk heard from great group of sixth formers from across the country who will be affected by housing growth and impact on nature.

Hear what they had to say, here:

Will make enquiries.

If you can send it as an email, I'll write back to you.

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Our statement on the unacceptable deportation of Abtisam Mohamed MP and Yuan Yang MP.

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Through select committees many MPs on all sides do work together.

Committee Corridor is a podcast highlighting this work.

The first episode in this parliament highlights the work of Defence Sel Comm on women in Armed Forces with @Meg_HillierMP @TanDhesi www.parliament.uk/business/com...

YouTube video by Toby Perkins MP Toby Perkins MP's question to the Flooding Minister

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I am pleased that the Flooding Minister has agreed to visit Chesterfield to look at local flood prevention projects.

Ahead of her visit to Chesterfield I raised the importance of flood repairs and prevention on the economy.

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Great to attend the launch of Stagecoach Yorkshire's fleet of 57 new electric busses that will be in action across Chesterfield.

Good to meet modular building designer and manufacturer Modular 500 in Sheepbridge, will be taking up issue of inconsistency of police escort for wide loads across forces with @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social