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1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) with less severe mental health issues. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Lady spoke of her concerns about young people. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Additionally, the youth guarantee will guarantee jobs for some 55,000 young people aged 18 to 21. - Speech Link
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1: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) experience with an eating disorder exposed me to the scale of failings across child and adolescent mental - Speech Link
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1: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) Zack’s message to young people is stark and powerful:“Don’t let your phone steal your power.”He has dedicated - Speech Link
2: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) I completely agree that young people need support in their real life, whether through youth services - Speech Link
3: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) I think we must keep young people safe by looking at age-appropriate digital spaces. - Speech Link
4: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) I have spoken openly in this House about my own mental health struggles in the past. - Speech Link
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1: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) How can we expect people to visit that historic land if they cannot access it—not only people coming - Speech Link
2: Amanda Hack (Lab - North West Leicestershire) Our green space is vital, not just for our environment and mental health but for the economic benefits - Speech Link
3: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) I believe that if we can shine a light on the history of Sherwood Forest and encourage more young people - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley South) It supports town centres, sustains rural economies, creates opportunities for young people and builds - Speech Link
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1: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) If we are truly serious about growth, we must be serious about our young people. - Speech Link
2: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) In Wolverhampton, we know that 2.6% of young people aged 16 to 17 were NEET in 2025. - Speech Link
3: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) It gives meaning and purpose, and has real, proven mental health benefits. - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Across England and Wales, he is one of 300,000 disabled people, or people with health conditions and - Speech Link
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1: None Our plan also gives pride of place to children and young people. - Speech Link
2: None Alongside rare and less common cancers, we will make research for children and young people a national - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Can the Minister set out how young people with cancer were engaged in the development of this plan and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) We definitely recognise the distinction between children and young people; they have different needs. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) Let us first see how it works with people who have the experience of handling what, in the circumstances - Speech Link
2: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) We have seen very recent examples of relatively young people aged 15 and 16 committing the most heinous - Speech Link
3: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) People in that position should be relieved and shielded from having to go to court unless absolutely - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) It means that people need to be prepared ahead of time in order to cope with the situation. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) Health Act code of practice—statutory guidance under the Mental Health Act 1983—might provide an appropriate - Speech Link
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1: None The CQC report on the Mental Health Act, published last week, told us that Black people are being detained - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) It would provide further safeguards for people with mental disorders.There are mental-health conditions - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) mental health legislation will be seen to have sufficient capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.It - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) This could exclude people with learning disabilities, mental disorders, as per Section 1 of the Mental - Speech Link
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1: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) It has improved, and we now deal with youth crime and young people in a much more humane and civilised - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) young people, with 14% between the ages of 14 and 17 and 40% between 18 and 24, and 93% of defendants - Speech Link
3: None We need to teach these young people—largely young men and boys—that they need to take responsibility - Speech Link
4: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) First, we recognise the anxiety that this has a disproportionate effect on young people and on those - Speech Link
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1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) out of work—young people in particular”. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) We are ensuring that there is an earlier interview for young people. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) There seems to be some evidence that young people are doing less of that type of work. - Speech Link
4: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) health on young people’s ability to gain work? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) There appears to be a growing number of young people who are out of work for whom mental health issues - Speech Link