At Business Questions this week I raised Carillion's insolvency. Short sellers made £137 million when Carillion’s share price fell by 70% over the course of three trading days following the July profit warning. Hedge funds were betting on the collapse of the shares of a company that provides vital public services. I asked for the Government to make a statement on the urgent steps that they are taking following Carillion’s insolvency and also to set up a taskforce to support the innocent people who were doing their job on one day, but out of that job the next through no fault of their own.

On Tuesday 16 January and Wednesday 17 January 2018 the Report Stage and the Third Reading of the European Union Withdrawal Bill were debated.

Saturday 27th January will mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the largest mass murder in history.

At Business Questions this week, following on from the Opposition day debate yesterday, I raised the NHS Winter Crisis. This year we have seen the NHS cancel operations and people left waiting on trolleys. The Care Quality Commission decided to suspend routine inspections because of the winter pressures. Today has seen an announcement by NHS providers that they cannot deliver, as set out under the NHS constitution, safe, decent standards of patient care. The Government say that the "NHS has never been better prepared for winter", but that is not the reality in hospitals.

On Wednesday 10 January 2018 an Opposition Day Debate was held on Rail Franchising.