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Lords Chamber
Carer’s Allowance - Tue 21 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) Does the Minister acknowledge that unpaid carers are disproportionately affected by poverty? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 21 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) could have copied the Scottish child payment in Scotland, which has lifted 100,000 children out of poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) expected to cost £21 billion in 2022-23 prices, while one in three children is currently living in poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill
Report stage - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) , and that one in six pensioners is below the poverty line at the end of their life. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 17 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) tirelessly, as many noble Lords have mentioned, in international development, promoting humanitarian aid, poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inequalities in Dementia Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Poverty and health inequalities were identified as major barriers to getting a dementia diagnosis. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mental Health and Long-term Conditions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) become unwell, with millions languishing on waiting lists and far too many living in conditions of poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) prevalence in an area is affected by age distribution and reflects socioeconomic factors: income levels, poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in its report UK Poverty 2022, talks of“a gap of around 12 percentage - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The proportion of people in families where someone is disabled and in absolute poverty after housing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood) about the fact that female pensioners are most likely to be living in poverty - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) We understand the injustice that has been done, the poverty that many people have been forced into and - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) people cannot wait, because they either will literally not be here any more, or they are living in poverty - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) We now have 200,000 fewer pensioners in absolute poverty after housing costs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 16 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Under the last Labour Government, 200,000 more pensioners were living in absolute poverty, and we had - Speech Link