Brooks Newmark backs the Government’s efforts to tackle overcrowding and long waiting lists in the social housing sector and supports the spare room subsidy which is a fair way to address the mismatch between overcrowded housing and those living in houses with empty bedrooms in taxpayer-subsidised housing.

Brooks Newmark highlights the flexibility in the labour market that zero-hours contracts provide but welcomes the Government consultation on the abuse of the system.

Speaking in the debate in Parliament, Brooks Newmark tells MPs that we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to go unchallenged and failing to act gives a green light to the Assad regime to go on slaughtering and gassing its people.

Last year, I travelled to Bosnia and, while in Sarajevo, visited the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).