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Lords Chamber
UK Development Partnership Assistance - Thu 29 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab - Life peer) that I had learned from soft power and presenting a Britain that is dynamic, attractive and highly skilled - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) co-operation agreements with more than 20 African nations and nuclear agreements with five; and Russian Railways - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It undermines the hard-working officials who have been development workers building partnerships over - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff East) integral to realising our potential as a clean energy superpower, and to creating thousands of high-skilled - Speech Link
2: Ann Davies (PC - Caerfyrddin) What discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on funding for railways. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) using to form her opinion, and will she outline how much Network Rail intends to invest in Welsh railways - Speech Link
4: Lee Barron (Lab - Corby and East Northamptonshire) Does the Prime Minister agree that all workers should have the hours that they actually work reflected - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) I am proud of this Labour Government delivering the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) country by April as we bring down waiting lists and renew our NHS, and new rights for renters and workers - Speech Link
2: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) Many of these people are highly skilled and highly qualified, work in key sectors and claim no benefits - Speech Link
3: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) This Government are committed to improving the accessibility of Britain’s railways. - Speech Link
4: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) The Government are committed to improving the accessibility of British railways. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rural Communities - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) digital infrastructure, the availability of affordable housing and energy, and access to a healthy, skilled - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) As a result, many first-time buyers and key workers simply cannot afford to live in rural areas, making - Speech Link
3: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) Railways are being nationalised, and rail and bus fares are being frozen. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) Budget alone, more than 1,100 pubs and restaurants have closed, and more than 89,000 hospitality workers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) is of course existing legislation protecting emergency workers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I would like to widen it a little beyond railways. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) and emergency workers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) to Clause 37—retail workers were not covered in the way that public-facing workers are in relation to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Older generations grew up in an era when the opportunity of a path from school to a skilled job was more - Speech Link
2: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) , to the small and medium-sized enterprises that supply components and services, defence sustains skilled - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) And what of the strain on those hard-working NHS workers? - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) It is unacceptable for public sector workers such as firefighters and police officers—some of whom, as - Speech Link
5: Kirsty McNeill (LAB - Midlothian) We also focused on ensuring job security for 350 skilled workers at Harland & Wolff shipyards in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) The Railways Bill represents a promise made and a promise delivered to set up Great British Railways, - Speech Link
2: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) I very much hope that Great British Railways will take a better approach to operating our railways, in - Speech Link
3: Cat Eccles (Lab - Stourbridge) As a long-time supporter of our railways and rail workers, I am proud to speak on a key Labour Government - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) That meant vital infrastructure projects constantly deferred, delayed or cancelled—roads, railways and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hollick (Lab - Life peer) The construction industry alone has assessed that 1 million additional skilled workers are needed to - Speech Link
3: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It will bring an additional cost to SMEs employing skilled workers whose salaries are over £40,000. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Nichols of Selby (Lab - Life peer) I am particularly happy about what this Budget does for former mine workers in the BCSSS. - Speech Link
5: Lord True (Con - Life peer) They said they wanted to help workers, but they have given us a Budget for non-workers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) Member talked about the problems of a 20th-century technology; railways are a 19th-century technology - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) I absolutely disagree with him, not on some of the points of detail, but on the benefits that railways - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) It wants to ensure that there is provision for training the highly skilled technicians who are needed - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading Central) workers to work in telecoms. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) Where do hard-pressed workers get the benefit to invest their money? - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) It is time that this Government put British citizens, British workers and British employers first. - Speech Link
3: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) It also meant that pay for NHS workers, teachers and other public sector workers was frozen for years - Speech Link