All articles written by Emma Lewell MP on PoliticsHome.com

29 Jun 2025 Health

I will vote against the Welfare Bill - I don’t want anyone to feel the regret I've had since 2015

I remember walking through the voting lobby in 2015 to vote in favour of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

25 Jul 2024 Social affairs

The cruellest policy in a very crowded field to come from the last 14 years of Tory governments is the two-child benefit cap.

25 May 2022 Home affairs

Parents bereaved by the Manchester Arena bombing deserve the right to register their children’s deaths

Sunday marked five years since 22 people were murdered in the Manchester Arena terror attack. Their families’ and friends’ grief remains raw and endures, every minute of every day.

25 Feb 2021 Economy

With jobs and livelihoods hanging by a thread, there is no logic in preventing outdoor hospitality from re-opening until April

The government have always claimed they are being ‘led by the science’ but when it comes to the hospitality industry, this has simply not been the case.

04 Mar 2020 Communities

Sibling contact in care should be a right not a lottery

If siblings can’t be placed together, they should have the same rights to have contact with each other as they do with their mothers and fathers, writes Emma Lewell Buck MP.

21 Sep 2019 Social affairs

Nationalise adult social care and run homes on the basis of need, not profit

Boosting budgets isn’t enough – care packages should fit around the needs of those using them, writes Emma Lewell-Buck MP

11 Sep 2018 Communities

It is time to tackle funeral poverty in the UK

Labour's Shadow Minister for Children and Families, Emma Lewell-Buck, writes ahead of her parliamentary debate on funeral poverty and argues 'no one should ever have to endure the agony of worrying about funeral costs at the same time as grieving'.

01 Feb 2018 Communities

This can be the parliament that finally ends hunger in Britain

The Food Insecurity Bill will ensure policy-makers understand the true scale of 'hidden hunger' in the UK, writes Emma Lewell-Buck

06 Dec 2016 Home affairs

Government continues to bury their head in the sand over food insecurity

Shadow Education Minister Emma Lewell-Buck writes for PoliticsHome ahead of her debate on food insecurity calling for the Government to act.