Louise Mensch highlights the previous Government's failure to reform the welfare system and thereby failing the women and children from lower income families. She welcomes the current Government's focus on children and the proposed Universal Credit which will take an estimated 350,000 children and 1 million people out of poverty.  read more »

Louise Bagshawe MP secured an adjournment debate in the House of Commons today, where she argued for more comprehensive and better coordinated services for veterans.  read more »

Louise Bagshawe makes the case that votes in England should count just as much as votes from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. She supports a Bill that will ensure almost all constituencies have the same size electorate.  read more »

Louise Bagshawe welcomes the Government's announcement of a consultation on its anonymity proposals for rape but she opposes plans to make rape a special case. She puts the case that those wrongly accused of many other crimes also suffer trauma and that any proposals should extend to other crimes as well.  read more »

Speaking in the House of Commons, Louise Bagshawe makes the local case against onshore wind farms when offshore wind farms are so much more efficient and against local disposal of nuclear waste when it would involve transportation over long distances.  read more »

Louise Bagshawe calls on the Government to examine the feasibility of a UK Veterans Administration, similar to that in the United States.  read more »

Louise makes her maiden speech in the House of Commons and she pays tribute to the work and kindness of her predecessor, Phil Hope. She also uses the speech to promote her idea for a cross-departmental project to oversee the care given to returning forces similar to the Veterans Administration in the United States.  read more »