Parliamentary Debates
- 5th December 2011
David Burrowes welcomes the announcement of a catalyst fund for regenerative medicine and calls for greater use of the application of umbilical cord blood which could provide life-saving treatments. read more »
- 9th November 2011
Speaking during an Opposition Day debate on border checks, David Burrowes asks the Home Secretary whether the 100 occasions on which warnings index checks were suspended since 2008 were authorised by the previous Home Secretaries. read more »
- 27th October 2011
David Burrowes calls on the Government to take the opportunity of the UK Chairmanship of the Council of Europe to raise the issue of Cyprus' missing people with the Government of Turkey. read more »
- 19th October 2011
David Burrowes calls on the Justice Secretary to look at the possibility of creating an inspector-general of the intelligence services. read more »
- 7th September 2011
David Burrowes takes the opportunity of a debate on the Health and Social Care Bill to highlight the importance of collecting umbilical cord blood. read more »
- 11th August 2011
David Burrowes addresses the issue of enforcement and notes that no one has yet been charged for ‘riot’ and, although that may yet change, he questions whether Parliament needs to examine whether the offence of riot is fit for modern purpose. read more »
- 20th July 2011
Speaking in the House of Commons debate on the phone hacking scandal, David Burrowes tells MPs we all have questions to answer and need to ask why we buy the newspapers that we do. read more »
- 7th June 2011
Following the Home Secretary's statement on the Government’s strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, David Burrowes welcomes the announcement of £5 million of near neighbours funding to enable churches to be involved in reaching out to all communities. read more »
- 24th May 2011
David Burrowes raises concerns about persecution of Christians and challenges whether financial aid to countries like Pakistan ends up supporting “hate education fermented by Islamist opinion”. read more »
