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Westminster Hall
Future of Public Libraries - Wed 14 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Davies (Lab - Mid Derbyshire) commissioned by the previous Government and published last year, calls on Government to develop a national - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Davies (Lab - Mid Derbyshire) The Government are looking carefully at public transport, but a national strategy for public libraries - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Davies (Lab - Mid Derbyshire) That is why I echo calls from the other place for the Government to develop a full national strategy - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) So I am somewhat resisting the idea of a national strategy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Care Strategy - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Murphy (XB - Life peer) of the National Health Service. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) of the National Health Service. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) The report commends the development of a national care covenant. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) It is a postcode lottery. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) It is a bit of a lottery who applies. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Preventable Sight Loss - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) That has more than doubled from around 25% before the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Friend agree that the use of the independent sector creates a postcode lottery as well? - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) All those things should be part of a national eye health strategy.The strategy must be inclusive and - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) This is no way to protect and strengthen the national health service. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) I beg to move,That this House has considered the postcode lottery of funding for hospices; and calls - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) Our hospices really must be seen as an integral part of our national health service. - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) Notwithstanding what I said about ICBs, there is a national role here. - Speech Link
4: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) We must have a national care service and we must properly invest in our NHS. - Speech Link
5: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) We have heard several times about the postcode lottery for NHS funding for our hospices. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of the NHS - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) said earlier this year:“If you had the hypothesis that the Government was seeking to destroy the national - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) The point I am making is that the national health service is a public service. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) What I am talking about is the national health service, which was set up as a public service—publicly - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) to meet the needs of patients.Before I conclude, I want to pay tribute to those who work in the national - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arrivals Duty Free at UK Airports - Thu 30 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) The change has been opposed even by the Scottish National Party, which must be a clue that the Government - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, the Government were slow to back the tourism sector during the coronavirus pandemic, U-turning - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) have contributed to various successful campaigns to stimulate recovery, including the £10 million National - Speech Link
4: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, following the question from the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, who mentioned the Scottish National - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) The Prime Minister declared this to be a national emergency back in November, but he did not make it - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) This is a national scandal. - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) From climate change and crisis to conflicts and coronavirus, those threats disproportionately affect - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) on the exercise of powers under section 15 and 16—“(1) The first condition is that the relevant national - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) The National Archives says that 1,300 additional pieces of legislation are not necessarily in scope. - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Some of it is obsolete, and some being discovered by the National Archives is also obsolete. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries Strategy - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) The National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv reopened three months after its closure at the start of the war - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) It was included in the first national curriculum in 1988. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Thanks to this larger pie and increases from the National Lottery, Arts Council England will be spending - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Long Covid - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) previously committed to research would go into 15 UK-based research studies, through the NIHR, the National - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I pay tribute to Dr Harry Brünjes, who pioneered the Breathe programme at the English National Opera, - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Exeter (Bishops - Bishops) As we move into winter, this is really serious.This national picture is exacerbated in rural counties - Speech Link
4: Viscount Stansgate (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) As has been referred to, the Office for National Statistics has published several articles. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Clearly there is still a postcode lottery about referral. - Speech Link