Debbie Abrahams MP
@debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth. Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Former NHS Trust Chair & PH academic. Tackling inequalities and fighting for fairness.
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Former NHS Trust Chair & PH academic. Tackling inequalities and fighting for fairness.
History is made as the Employment Rights Bill is set to become law. This includes:
✅ A ban on exploitative zero hours contracts
✅ Sick pay from day one
✅ A ban on fire and rehire
✅ Stronger family leave
✅ A ban on exploitative zero hours contracts
✅ Sick pay from day one
✅ A ban on fire and rehire
✅ Stronger family leave
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
History is made as the Employment Rights Bill is set to become law. This includes:
✅ A ban on exploitative zero hours contracts
✅ Sick pay from day one
✅ A ban on fire and rehire
✅ Stronger family leave
✅ A ban on exploitative zero hours contracts
✅ Sick pay from day one
✅ A ban on fire and rehire
✅ Stronger family leave
Last week, we celebrated International Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, which was set up in the wake of the Second World War, to set out the foundations for our rules based system, our human rights, that we are all equal, and emphasising our common humanity.
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Last week, we celebrated International Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, which was set up in the wake of the Second World War, to set out the foundations for our rules based system, our human rights, that we are all equal, and emphasising our common humanity.
It was a pleasure to welcome #ChrisCurrie from the #PensionsPolicyInstitute and #JonathanCribb from the @theifs.bsky.social to the #WorkandPensionsSelectCommittee as part of our 'Transition to State Pension Age' Inquiry.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It was a pleasure to welcome #ChrisCurrie from the #PensionsPolicyInstitute and #JonathanCribb from the @theifs.bsky.social to the #WorkandPensionsSelectCommittee as part of our 'Transition to State Pension Age' Inquiry.
If you would like to watch more go to 👇🏼
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I was pleased to welcome the Reverend Dr Jack Sara - President of the Bethlehem Bible College - to a meeting of the APPG on Palestine. We heard Dr Sara's account of the persecution and suffering faced by Palestinian Christians.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I was pleased to welcome the Reverend Dr Jack Sara - President of the Bethlehem Bible College - to a meeting of the APPG on Palestine. We heard Dr Sara's account of the persecution and suffering faced by Palestinian Christians.
At #DWP questions last week I thanked @patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social and other Ministers for the work they have done on the Child Poverty Strategy which will see 450,000 children lifted out of relative poverty as a direct result of lifting the 2-child benefit limit
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
At #DWP questions last week I thanked @patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social and other Ministers for the work they have done on the Child Poverty Strategy which will see 450,000 children lifted out of relative poverty as a direct result of lifting the 2-child benefit limit
It was wonderful to meet campaigners from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social in Parliament for their annual #ChristmasJumperDay. From pushing to abolish the two-child benefit limit to supporting children in conflict zones, Save the Children remains at the forefront of defending children’s rights.
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It was wonderful to meet campaigners from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social in Parliament for their annual #ChristmasJumperDay. From pushing to abolish the two-child benefit limit to supporting children in conflict zones, Save the Children remains at the forefront of defending children’s rights.
As many of you will know, I do a weekly #MPknock most recently with my team, I have been out in #Sholver & #Clarksfield.
December 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As many of you will know, I do a weekly #MPknock most recently with my team, I have been out in #Sholver & #Clarksfield.
I am grateful to my fellow British Parliamentarians joining me in a call for peace as part of the ‘Parliamentarians for Peace’ campaign, this is my third year co-ordinating this campaign, which included our first Peace Conference in September.
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I am grateful to my fellow British Parliamentarians joining me in a call for peace as part of the ‘Parliamentarians for Peace’ campaign, this is my third year co-ordinating this campaign, which included our first Peace Conference in September.
I strongly welcome today’s news that Baroness Longfield has been appointed to chair the National Inquiry into Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSE/CSA).
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I strongly welcome today’s news that Baroness Longfield has been appointed to chair the National Inquiry into Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSE/CSA).
I spoke in Parliament this week about current and historic Constituency child sexual abuse cases I have been helping with.
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I spoke in Parliament this week about current and historic Constituency child sexual abuse cases I have been helping with.
#ParliamentariansforPeace was set up in November 2023 in the wake of the terrorist attack in Israel on 7th October 2023 and subsequent killing of Gazan civilians.
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#ParliamentariansforPeace was set up in November 2023 in the wake of the terrorist attack in Israel on 7th October 2023 and subsequent killing of Gazan civilians.
This year on
#SmallBusinessSaturday I visited #TheEdgeHairandBeauty
#LAflorist and #DeleCoffeeHouse, businesses in Lees
where women entrepreneurs are doing Oldham proud.
#SmallBusinessSaturday I visited #TheEdgeHairandBeauty
#LAflorist and #DeleCoffeeHouse, businesses in Lees
where women entrepreneurs are doing Oldham proud.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This year on
#SmallBusinessSaturday I visited #TheEdgeHairandBeauty
#LAflorist and #DeleCoffeeHouse, businesses in Lees
where women entrepreneurs are doing Oldham proud.
#SmallBusinessSaturday I visited #TheEdgeHairandBeauty
#LAflorist and #DeleCoffeeHouse, businesses in Lees
where women entrepreneurs are doing Oldham proud.
Parliament is getting ready for the Christmas holidays!
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Parliament is getting ready for the Christmas holidays!
Last week was #InternationalDayOfDisabledPeople!
Did you know that an estimated 16.8 million people in the UK had a disability in 2023/24, accounting for 25% of the total population?
Did you know that an estimated 16.8 million people in the UK had a disability in 2023/24, accounting for 25% of the total population?
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Last week was #InternationalDayOfDisabledPeople!
Did you know that an estimated 16.8 million people in the UK had a disability in 2023/24, accounting for 25% of the total population?
Did you know that an estimated 16.8 million people in the UK had a disability in 2023/24, accounting for 25% of the total population?
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If you prefer your investment big and tangible, we are supporting the expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, plus the construction of Sizewell C
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you prefer your investment big and tangible, we are supporting the expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, plus the construction of Sizewell C
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For private investment to happen firms have to be able to get things built (even intangible capital is often housed in very tangible things). That’s why we’re backing builders not blockers through the biggest planning reforms in a generation
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
For private investment to happen firms have to be able to get things built (even intangible capital is often housed in very tangible things). That’s why we’re backing builders not blockers through the biggest planning reforms in a generation
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Firms are more likely to invest if they have markets to sell into. That’swhy trade deals with the EU, US and India matter (just ask JLR or the whisky industry). All the opposition parties oppose them for all the usual made up reasons (not least thinking we shouldn’t talk to EU)
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Firms are more likely to invest if they have markets to sell into. That’swhy trade deals with the EU, US and India matter (just ask JLR or the whisky industry). All the opposition parties oppose them for all the usual made up reasons (not least thinking we shouldn’t talk to EU)
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Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
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Most investment is in the private sector. All of the lower productivity in the UK vs France can be explained by French workers having more capital (ie kit) to work with.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Most investment is in the private sector. All of the lower productivity in the UK vs France can be explained by French workers having more capital (ie kit) to work with.
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It’s exactly because we believe in Britain’s future that this government has started investing in it. Revised fiscal rules have enabled the highest sustained levels of public investment in a generation - £120bn extra.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s exactly because we believe in Britain’s future that this government has started investing in it. Revised fiscal rules have enabled the highest sustained levels of public investment in a generation - £120bn extra.
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Like a home, if you don’t invest for a year or two you can get away with it. Don’t do it for decades and the roof risks falling in ie you’ve undermined growth
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Like a home, if you don’t invest for a year or two you can get away with it. Don’t do it for decades and the roof risks falling in ie you’ve undermined growth
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Only Germany has done worse public investment wise (as you’ll know if you’ve been on a German train), and they’ve compensated with high private investment, on which front the UK has been bottom of the G7 league table. By miles.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Only Germany has done worse public investment wise (as you’ll know if you’ve been on a German train), and they’ve compensated with high private investment, on which front the UK has been bottom of the G7 league table. By miles.
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Lots of things matter for securing a higher productivity future - but the thing that has marked the UK out in recent decades is our catastrophically low investment. Public and private.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Lots of things matter for securing a higher productivity future - but the thing that has marked the UK out in recent decades is our catastrophically low investment. Public and private.
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That same growth failure post-financial crisis is why the OBR has downgraded productivity growth in their latest forecasts - it’s a verdict on the past not an inevitable future
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That same growth failure post-financial crisis is why the OBR has downgraded productivity growth in their latest forecasts - it’s a verdict on the past not an inevitable future
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Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.