Sam Rushworth
LabourMP for Bishop Auckland · Since 2024
Recent Activity
Voted NO on: Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
Sam Rushworth 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
Sam Rushworth 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 (o)
Sam Rushworth 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 (o)
Sam Rushworth 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 (l)
Sam Rushworth 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 (p)
Sam Rushworth voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)' (104-316, defeated)
Voted AYE on: King's Speech Motion for an Address
Sam Rushworth voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address' (307-171, passed)
Voted AYE on: King's Speech Motion for an Address
Sam Rushworth voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address' (307-171, passed)
Voted NO on: King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p)
Sam Rushworth 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)
Sam Rushworth voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l)' (78-408, defeated)
Getting Britain Working Again
rose—
Getting Britain Working Again
I hear what the hon. Lady is saying—we have exactly the same challenges in my rural community, where people cannot get to job interviews or to jobs—but we passed the Bus Services Act 2025 in the last Session.
Getting Britain Working Again
I fully agree with my hon. Friend. It would be remiss of me if I did not mention my absolute delight at the education for all Bill included in the King’s Speech. I intend to speak in the debate on that Bill when the time comes. I also thank the Minister for School Standards and the Secretary of State for what I thought was a model of how to engage with charities and parents, as well as with Back-Bench MPs, on that difficult but important piece of legislation. I think everybody across the House w
Spoke in debate: Getting Britain Working Again
Parliamentary appearance by Sam Rushworth
Getting Britain Working Again
I am coming on to talk about the importance of FE funding, while understanding the challenges the Government face. There is enormous demand to spend money everywhere, but I want to make the case for why we really need to resource FE. FE colleges endured years of under-investment. Funding per student fell by 11% over 14 years of Conservative government. Vocational education was too often treated as second class, and apprenticeship opportunities declined precisely at the moment we needed them most
Getting Britain Working Again
I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests in that I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for T-levels. I thank Harrison Willmott, a sixth-form student and work experience student, who helped research some of the figures for my speech today. He is sitting in the Gallery. I also welcome today’s positive growth figures—the highest quarterly growth in the G7 and the highest real-terms growth in over four years, as well as falling unemployment. However,
Getting Britain Working Again
I certainly do. It is this Labour Government and it is getting people off NHS waiting lists and back into work. However, it is not for me to answer the questions; my intervention was simply to give the hon. Lady another opportunity to answer the question that was put to her by my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Peter Swallow) and which she did not really answer. This broken system that she described as “Benefits Street” is a system that the Conservatives created. Why, in 14 years, did they
Spoke in debate: Debate on the Address
Parliamentary appearance by Sam Rushworth
Debate on the Address
It would be interesting to be reminded of how the right hon. Member voted on Andrew Lansley’s reforms of the NHS, many of which are still creating problems in our NHS today.
Voted AYE on: Draft Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
Sam Rushworth voted AYE on 'Draft Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026' (304-28, passed)