Speeches

Father Christmas is simply not in a position to influence the budgets of local authorities. But this Government is. And on behalf of the 128,000 homeless children across the country, Siobhain sincerely hopes that this will be their last Christmas morning without a place to call home.

I call upon the Government to grant Local Authorities the right to build and the right to buy so that housing can be let to families on low incomes at social housing rents. If the Government target of building 300,000 new homes is to be achieved, councils simply have to play their part.

Astronomical burial charges are simply exploitative at a time of grief. It is high time that this tax on grief is put to rest.

The botched roll-out of Universal Credit has caused country-wide chaos and misery. I called on the Government to change the 6-week payment delay before families face eviction.

Siobhain speaks out against South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust and Merton CCG's proposals to change their diagnosis of autism to no longer accept referrals for assessment unless the person has an additional mental health condition requiring treatment.

Letting fees must be banned! That's the view of Siobhain as she highlights the growing problems of the private rented sector and the consequences of increasing rents, deposits and letting fees.

Siobhain tells the personal stories in Parliament brought to her by her constituents regarding the terrible humanitarian and economic crisis in Venezuela.

Siobhain spoke on behalf of the Tamil community over the increasing number of disappearances in Sri Lanka since the Civil War.

Siobhain speaks out about our broken housing market

Siobhain has spoken against the government's National Funding Formula which would leave most Mitcham & Morden schools worse off