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James Asser
James Asser
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ West Ham and Beckton
📅 2024–2026
71 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 77.66% (#242 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.65%
📝 Topics: Shoplifting, Further Education: STEM Subjects, Leasehold: Reform
🤝 Member of 16 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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25 written answers on parliamentary record
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Attorney General
Shoplifting: Prosecutions 24 October 2025
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure effective prosecution for shoplifting.
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Department for Business and Trade
Sugar: Imports 1 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the arrangements that will apply from January 2026 for the import of raw cane sugar; and what steps he is taking to provide continuity and certainty for consumers and businesses.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Greater London 25 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help protect grassroots sports venues in London.
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Department for Education
Sixth Form Education 23 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to open Sixth Forms and Post 16 offers the Department has granted in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency in each of the last three years.
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Special Educational Needs 21 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect in-school resource provision for pupils with special educational needs.
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Apprentices 3 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of apprenticeships in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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Further Education: STEM Subjects 3 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking encourage the take-up of STEM subjects at further education level.
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Curriculum 3 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with (a) employers and (b) further education providers to help ensure the post-16 curriculum is aligned with the future needs of the UK workforce.
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Department for Transport
Aviation: Licensing 3 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people held pilot licences issued by the Civil Aviation Authority permitting them to fly commercial passenger flights on (a) UK-registered aeroplanes and (b) aeroplanes operated by UK-licensed airlines in each of the last 10 years (i) in total…
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Taxis: Body Fluids 20 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to extend the availability of DNA spit kits to licensed private hire drivers.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Consumer Information 3 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve access to pension information and (b) introduce the Pension Dashboards Scheme.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Greater London 14 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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General Practitioners: Standards 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of GP provision in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency; and what steps he is taking to improve patient access.
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Health: Disadvantaged 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle health inequalities in (a) England, (b) London, and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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Obesity: Children 7 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent childhood obesity.
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Home Office
Shoplifting 27 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle shoplifting.
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Passports 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult and (b) child passports have been revoked since 1 January 2024.
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Visas: Skilled Workers 17 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, whether the proposed extension of the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain to ten years will apply…
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Care Workers: Migrant Workers 28 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of protections for overseas (a) health and (b) social care workers on a visa sponsorship arrangement.
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Anti-social Behaviour 15 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) England, (b) London, and (c) West Ham & Beckton constituency.
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Ministry of Defence
Defence: Employment 25 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support jobs in the defence sector.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: West Ham and Beckton 17 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the availability of affordable housing in West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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Religious Hatred 26 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle hate crimes based on religion in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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Leasehold: Reform 4 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to reform the leasehold system.
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Retail Trade: Greater London 3 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to encourage investment in high streets in (a) London and (b) West Ham and Beckton constituency.
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