[5] Cunningham made his maiden speech on 12 May 1992 in which he spoke of the social and economic problems of Coventry and criticised the then level of central government resources allocated to the city.

[9] Reflecting his previous career Cunningham set up a Parliamentary group for Rolls-Royce bringing together MPs and Trade Unions.

In 2006 Cunningham arranged a meeting between Trade Unions representing workers at Peugeot Ryton and the Chancellor Gordon Brown over threats to the future of the plant.

[20] In 2009 Cunningham helped secure extra funding from the government for the Coventry Rape and Sexual Assault Centre (CRASAC).

[21] In 2011, Cunningham arranged a meeting with the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff, as a response to the Rolls-Royce announcement that it would lay off one quarter of its staff at its Ansty plant by 2012 due to the UK defence cuts and the plant's reliance upon repairing and servicing RAF jet engines.

[22] Alongside the then Coventry North West MP Geoffrey Robinson Cunningham lobbied successive governments for the development and exapansion of Ansty Park as a centre for high tech manufacturing.

[23] Cunningham supported the campaign to renovate Coventry's medieval Charterhouse Priory, one of only nine Carthusian monasteries left in the UK.

In 2012 he facilitated a visit by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey to the site to draw attention to the campaign.

[24] In 2013, Cunningham campaigned with Unite the Union to keep London Taxis International producing the iconic Black Hackney Cab in Coventry.

[25] Cunningham also actively campaigned to keep Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands following the purchase of the company by Tata.

In a 2013 debate in Parliament he stated 'that zero-hours contracts are a throwback to the 1930s when miners and dockers had to turn up to work not knowing whether they would get a job.

[31] In 2019 Cunningham helped to organise a meeting between the interested parties, local MPs and the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright.

[36] In the same year Cunningham became a prominent critic of the Conservative Government's plan to scrap free TV Licences for the over 75s.