Nick Thomas-Symonds

Voted NO on: Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading' (68-242, defeated)

Voted NO on: Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading' (68-242, defeated)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)' (104-316, defeated)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l)' (78-408, defeated)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (o)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (o)' (104-317, defeated)

Voted AYE on: King's Speech Motion for an Address

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address' (307-171, passed)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (o)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (o)' (104-317, defeated)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)' (104-316, defeated)

Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l)

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l)' (78-408, defeated)

Voted AYE on: King's Speech Motion for an Address

Nick Thomas-Symonds voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address' (307-171, passed)

UK-EU Trade

My hon. Friend can be assured that we will continue to drive forward to deliver on our commitment. The electricity trading negotiations are absolutely vital, not only for energy security but to bear down on household bills.

Spoke in debate: Contaminated Blood: Compensation

Parliamentary appearance by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Spoke in debate: Public Contracts: Value for Money

Parliamentary appearance by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Spoke in debate: Topical Questions

Parliamentary appearance by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Spoke in debate: UK-EU Relations

Parliamentary appearance by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Spoke in debate: UK-EU Trade

Parliamentary appearance by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Contaminated Blood: Compensation

I wish a happy Warwickshire day to my Warwickshire friends and a happy St George’s day to all my English friends. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] We are prioritising paying compensation to those impacted, and the Infected Blood Compensation Authority has reached the significant milestone of paying out over £2 billion, including the first payment to all eligible groups. I am sure that the right hon. Gentlemen will be aware that I recently announced substantive changes in all seven areas on which we

Contaminated Blood: Compensation

The right hon. Gentleman quite correctly raises not only the fact that people have waited decades for compensation, but the urgency with which we want to drive this forward. To be precise, 3,304 infected people had received an offer by 23 April, totalling over £2.6 billion. We have started paying the affected cohort, and the milestone of paying out in the first case by the end of last year was met. It is quite right that IBCA is operationally independent, but I nevertheless stand ready to do all

Contaminated Blood: Compensation

I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman’s work in providing a voice for the pupils who suffered such heinous medical experimentation at Treloar’s. On the issue of the evidence, generally speaking I have always said to IBCA that there needs to be a very sympathetic approach, because we are talking about not only events of a long time ago, but deliberate document destruction. On the specific issue of severe psychological harm under the special category mechanism, I will write to him very precise

Public Contracts: Value for Money

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend’s assessment of Capita’s lamentable performance on the civil service pension scheme. We have to take individual decisions on contracts. For example, yesterday I cancelled Capita’s contract for the Royal Mail statutory pension scheme. I am robustly holding Capita to account, including by withholding milestone payments on the civil service pension scheme. With regard to the Synergy contract, that was led by the Department for Work and Pensions through the norma