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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Many already work far beyond what their allowances reflect, often with limited support. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) However, as we have heard, the answer to such change cannot simply be to remove this duty—altogether, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) While it places a duty on local authorities to make appropriate arrangements for effective governance - Speech Link
4: None The new duty will support smarter, more responsive decision-making that reflects community priorities - Speech Link
5: None The Bill already strengthens local engagement through the neighbourhood governance duty by requiring - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) That means that a couple will now be able to pass on up to £5 million tax-free between them, on top of - Speech Link
2: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) Northern Ireland the best of both worlds: unfettered access to the UK internal market and barrier-free - Speech Link
3: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) The defence of our country is always the first duty of any Government. - Speech Link
4: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) I think the whole House will agree that the Mandelson scandal has shown yet again why we need a duty - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) He is willing to pay an extra premium to do that, in pursuance of a moral duty to try to give his past - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) It is my view, having been there, that, pre 1997, the number of schemes making no allowances for LPI - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) It is the UK’s duty to ensure that the entities it regulates and over which it has power do not place - Speech Link
4: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) As we heard earlier, fiduciary duty requires lawful, prudent and long-term decision-making. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) There is, as I say, extra free money added by, usually, your employer and other taxpayers. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 03 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) It is good to be back, Sir Roger.The vaping products duty is a new excise duty on vaping products manufactured - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) As I stated in our debate on the previous group, the vaping products duty is a new excise duty on vaping - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) stamp, any invalid duty stamp along with the product that it is attached to, or any unused duty stamp - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a society that is free, open and fair, and a society - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) school meals to all children whose families are on universal credit, the delivery of universal free - Speech Link
3: Darren Paffey (Lab - Southampton Itchen) A third of pupils in my state-funded schools are eligible for free school meals, and more are set to - Speech Link
4: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) They implied and claimed that she does not care about economic inactivity and our moral duty. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None Other Members are then free to indicate if they wish to speak in the debate by bobbing. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) Members are aware, capital allowances allow businesses to write off the costs of capital assets, such - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) , they rely on writing-down allowances. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) do not see how we can halt biodiversity loss, let alone restore it, without giving authorities the duty - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) I would argue that mayors should be free to appoint people to roles determined by them. - Speech Link
3: None Amendment 62 would require the publication of the commissioners’ allowances online. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, for her amendments relating to providing allowances - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Clause 1 - Mon 12 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Clause 6 will also make changes to the income tax calculation so that general reliefs and allowances - Speech Link
2: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) breakfast clubs and free school meal eligibility. - Speech Link
3: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) Freezing allowances will mean more pensioners paying tax on their income from savings. - Speech Link
4: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) If no transfer is made and the farmer dies before April 2026, the estate passes tax-free. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None It sets out that employers have a duty to manage the risks of their work activities, including where - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 introduced a preventive duty on sexual - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) It would be odd if there was no duty on the employers of emergency workers to look at risk, adequate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) children out of relative poverty in this Parliament, by removing the two-child limit, and by expanding free - Speech Link
2: Oliver Ryan (LAB - Burnley) On the Minister’s point about business investment, I welcome the three-year holiday from the stamp duty - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) That is why, as a point of protest, we Liberal Democrats voted against the increase in alcohol duty in - Speech Link
4: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) So this, along with the expansion of free breakfast clubs for all families and free school meals for - Speech Link