MP’s UPDATE November 2025 RUTH CADBURY MP

You can find previous reports of my work on my web site; www.ruthcadbury.co.uk I also report regularly on my Facebook page and via Instagram @RuthCadbury and Bluesky @RuthCadbury If you would like to raise issues with me please email on [email protected] with your address, a quick summary of the issue (and relevant reference numbers). See my Web page for information on local and national services For full details of my questions and speeches in Parliament, get regular updates about my Parliamentary activities TheyWorkForYou (votes) or see Hansard (speeches) & on YouTube

IN THE COMMONS in November The Transport Secretary launched the review of the airports national policy statement, covering just the third runway at Heathrow. I challenged her on the implications of the expansion on the UK’s legal climate commitments, on the need for rail access into the airport from the south, and on the cost increases to airlines and thus passengers. She partially addressed one of those issues in her response to me At Cabinet Office Questions I raised the concerns of small businesses including a butcher and a lighting supplier of the impact of Brexit on their ability to import and export with the EU. I was assured by the Minister that deals on food and agricultural trade, energy and emissions will all reduce costs for businesses. Letters: Following Gordon Brown’s approach, I joined other MPs in writing to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, demanding the gambling sector pays its share of taxes, such as VAT for a start. We await news on this (and much else!) in the budget later this month. As I have strongly supported Electoral Reform, I have joined other MPs in writing to Communities Secretary Steve Reed in welcoming the ending of First Past the Post for some elections in the English Devolution Bill, rationalising Voter ID, strengthening the Electoral Commission and lowering the voting age to 16. Our letter then went on to urge Steve to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform, to ensure that UK general elections are fit for the future. With other MPs, I wrote to Alex Norris MP, the new Minister for Border Security and Asylum to keep LGBT+ people from harm in immigration detention. The letter seeks to influence the Government’s review of its Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention (AAR) policy.

Somewhere in Whitehall there is a room full of computers and big screens that is “stood up” for roughly 100 days a year as the Foreign Office’s Crisis Management Centre. I was fortunate to be able to have a tour of the centre, where we had a briefing on how UK citizens caught up in a crisis are supported and how humanitarian aid is delivered, wherever needed. This centre was in full operation in the last week supporting Jamaicans and Brits caught up in the damage of Hurricane Melissa, and contributing to the rescue efforts there.

Heathrow: I met representatives of IAG (British Airways’ parent company) who described how landing charges, and thus customers’ tickets, could rise in order to pay for Heathrow’s Runway 3. The Government’s preferred scheme for the third runway will be revealed at the end of November.

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