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Commons Chamber
Remembrance Day: Armed Forces - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) We should note that at the end of the second world war the state invested greatly in veterans. - Speech Link
2: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) George Edward Heneage, who was plucked from retirement. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Earlier today, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the right hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) sales of council housing and the low-level programme of new build.On 6 February, when Secretary of State - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) I am quite content with the views of the Secretary of State on that matter. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) There is also a gender issue: for females presenting as homeless it is even younger, at just 25. - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Is my noble friend in a position to explain or tell the House when the Secretary of State is likely to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) The Government state that they“will invest £125 million in increasing funding rates for 16-19 education - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) We need to do more to encourage females into apprenticeships and engineering and debunk the myth that - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) To be frank, the state has all but withdrawn from funding university education. - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) Secretary of State No. 6, I do not know, but what we do know is that, Bobby Ewing-like, the previous - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) What I want, and what I have devoted my whole parliamentary life to, is to develop state of the art, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Women in Poverty - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) were more likely to work full time than females. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) and had their retirement plans thrown into chaos when the retirement age was raised with little or no - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) In this coming financial year, we are uprating all benefits and state pensions by 10.1%. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) It legally recognises British Sign Language and requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) An acute diagnosis is the current state of our social care. - Speech Link
3: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) Today, there are nearly 55,000 medical students, of which 21,000 are men and 33,500 are females. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blower (LAB - Life peer) Much of our school estate—our school buildings—is in a terrible state, frankly. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) and that is one bias we do not wish to break.I would like to pay tribute to the Under-Secretary of State - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Perhaps he has consulted social media rather than looking at what I actually did state. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) I am sorry that the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) women, adult human females, girls, mothers, women who breastfeed and mothers who work. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
Report stage - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) Too often, Chancellors have eyed state pensions or pensioners as a tempting target to raid when they - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) pension benefits next April—more specifically, the increases in the flat-rate basic and new state pensions - Speech Link
3: None The level of the state pension was outside the strict remit of the original Pensions Commission but, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) But the state pension is the basis of the majority of pensioners’ income in retirement, and it is part - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) For females, the gap is 7.7 years. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) Between 1980 and 2018, life expectancy at birth rose to 79.3 years for males and 82.9 years for females - Speech Link
3: Viscount Ridley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) For those worried about pensions, it is a good thing that we just ain’t going to live to 150—not without - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) and there has been political resistance to the interference of what has been described as the “nanny state - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safe Streets for All - Mon 17 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) The law requires them to ask the state to provide justice for them, and the state must not let them down - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) This Secretary of State really has skewed priorities. - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) Friend the Secretary of State for Health and I take very seriously. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Fri 12 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) Instead, it maintains personal tax thresholds on income tax, inheritance tax, the pensions lifetime allowance - Speech Link
2: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (CB - Life peer) He will have to take difficult decisions, and soon—for example, revisiting the triple lock on the state - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LDEM - Life peer) The finances of local government were parlous before; they are now in a very dangerous state. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Secretary of State Truss has pipped me to the post this morning with a round robin announcing that the - Speech Link
5: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I think in particular in terms of women’s state pension: they are now not able to take it until 66 at - Speech Link