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

Mentions:
1: None the pensions market;(c) the potential barriers to entry and growth for small and medium-sized pension - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We will submit a memorandum to the Work and Pensions Select Committee with a preliminary analysis of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We set this out in our response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry on DB pensions. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The Pensions Regulator has done some analysis and is doing more work on this. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) For them, pensions can feel less like a promise and more like a relic. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Postal Services: Rural Areas - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Steve Yemm (Lab - Mansfield) Government agencies such as the Department for Work and Pensions, banks, hospitals, the police, courts - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I do pay £7.99 a month for unlimited free delivery, but it astounds me that I pay more than £1 for one - Speech Link
3: John Milne (LD - Horsham) The universal service obligation exists for a reason, and it must work not just in theory but in practice - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Those are sensible measures of access, and it is therefore deeply concerning that the Department for - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Civil Service Pension Scheme: Administration - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) Julie has worked for the Department for Work and Pensions for 26 years. - Speech Link
2: Sally Jameson (LAB - Doncaster Central) had to pay for to date? - Speech Link
3: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) priority work for people who are sitting waiting on their pensions is completed? - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) air stations, the Inland Revenue and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
5: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) those relying on their pension payment to pay for basics such as rent, food, mortgages and heating, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Construction Industry Training Board: Funding - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) At present, it is an arm’s length body of the Department for Work and Pensions, so I thank the Minister - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He has been an assiduous, committed and very industrious MP for his constituency, and I thank him for - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) for 16 to 18-year-olds; a further £75 million for courses for those aged over 19 and either not in work - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) for Education—by the Department for Work and Pensions, with the purpose of improving training for people - Speech Link
5: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Friend for drawing this important matter to the attention of the House, and for his interest in it, and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab - Life peer) For it to work really well, we need to have properly funded local authorities and a well-funded health - Speech Link
2: None Then the Department for Business and Trade introduced a policy paper called a “licensing policy sprint - Speech Link
3: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) For that reason, and for the coherence it brings alongside Amendments 141, 146 and 147, I strongly support - Speech Link
4: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) I thank the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for his commitment and for this amendment.Amendments 141 and - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) enough pitches for your football and rugby teams, and so on? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - Wed 04 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) People still saved for their pensions and still received good pensions. - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) While civil servants’ pensions are protected for life—and, indeed, often for their spouses—the Bill does - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Reducing take-home pay and pensions will either reduce current pay, or deferred pay, or both.I have a - Speech Link
4: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Department for Work and Pensions acknowledged in 2025 that around 14.6 million working-age people - Speech Link
5: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) the people who keep this country going.The Department for Work and Pensions estimates that two-fifths - 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: Pat McFadden (Lab - Wolverhampton South East) Department for Work and Pensions by the Treasury at the time, and the former Conservative Home Secretary - Speech Link
2: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) of hardship.The Department for Work and Pensions’ own impact assessment has found that around 50,000 - Speech Link
3: Darren Paffey (Lab - Southampton Itchen) I commend the Secretaries of State for Education and for Work and Pensions for the work they have done - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) that the Department for Work and Pensions did not recommend that it be offered as a solution to families - Speech Link
5: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
6: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Our preferred approach is to work with the sector on strength and guidance for trust-based private pensions - Speech Link
2: None for Work and Pensions to the individual equal to the difference, within a timeframe determined by regulations - Speech Link
3: None It is essential that the Department for Work and Pensions, TPR and the Financial Conduct Authority are - Speech Link
4: None that works for individuals and delivers the sort of pensions that people expect to receive. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None In December 2024, the then Work and Pensions Secretary, my right honourable friend the Member for Leicester - Speech Link
2: None knowledge and planning, and the department stopped sending them. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) The current Secretary of State for Work and Pensions publicly associated himself with MPs campaigning - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Last November, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions told Parliament that the Government would - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Then, the Department for Work and Pensions insisted that, to keep her jobseeker’s allowance, she must - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 30 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) It is important for the individual and for the state. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) R (Blundell) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2021 noted that post-decision equality analysis - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) That seems excessive.I pay tribute to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, for producing some amendments - Speech Link
4: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) The Health and Safety at Work etc. - Speech Link