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Commons Chamber
UK-EU Summit - Tue 13 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) Government elected on the principle of honouring the referendum result, and one who are now playing dog-whistle - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) The fact is that our standards in animal welfare and product health are, and always have been, above - Speech Link
3: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) and want to do so.Today, I was pleased to have the chance to meet representatives of the Scottish Advisory - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Mon 12 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I am glad, as always, to support my noble friend Lord Black, whose commitment to animal welfare - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) was looking for places to rent—not to holiday rent, but to rent properly as a home—had I not had my dog - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Does this include property agents or other advisory parties? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 01 May 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) She described conditions in some that“you wouldn’t want to put a dog in, let alone a child”.Earlier this - Speech Link
2: Lord Biggar (Con - Life peer) As an Anglo-Scot, I had a dog in the fight that was the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and, - Speech Link
3: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) Others in the support web around them are vital for children’s welfare. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) Legislating for the welfare of children is crucial, and we must take this opportunity to provide equal - Speech Link
5: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) to offer families the chance to come up with solutions for their children’s welfare, to help them avoid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Debt: It’s Time for Tough Decisions (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Fri 25 Apr 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) decarbonisation and the green transition; dependency, especially around labour market inactivity and welfare - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) now we realise that we should not have spent that money, but we had committed that expenditure to welfare - Speech Link
3: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) But every dog has its day. - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) spending as the welfare state expanded into its modern dimensions was afforded by a dramatic decrease - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 23 Apr 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) is under way in government to link the work of Skills England and its equivalents, the Migration Advisory - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Gentleman’s guide dog, a very happy birthday for yesterday? - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We will negotiate, as he would expect, in the national interest and uphold the highest animal welfare - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) I very much welcome the employment support proposals in the welfare Green Paper, but the Government have - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Drug Deaths - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) not only addiction recovery, but mental and physical health, wellbeing, homelessness, employment, welfare - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) points than actually solving a problem, a complete disregard for the expert guidance provided by the Advisory - Speech Link
3: David Williams (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent North) alongside the police and drug service teams, offering support directly to those who need it.The Advisory - Speech Link
4: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Paddy was known to many civil servants and was noted for the gentle way he looked after his dog. - Speech Link
5: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is part of the advisory group and is waiting to see - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Holocaust Memorial Bill
Committee stageLords Handards - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Viscount Eccles (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I do not want to get into an argument about “advisory” versus “executive”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) boards: the foundation advisory board, the academic advisory board and the construction advisory board - Speech Link
3: Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Con - Life peer) That park is important to families and to the welfare of children. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd Sitting - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) I have to say that, from our point of view, we saw fraud as essentially a welfare and tax issue for many - Speech Link
2: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) Our one concern is, please don’t let this be the tail that’s wagging the dog. - Speech Link
3: None partner for forensics at Ernst & Young, who now sits on the Public Sector Fraud Authority’s advisory - Speech Link
4: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) How much will the Bill save the taxpayer in the welfare fraud space? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 04 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It gives an example of a covered event: a dog might tear down the curtains in a house, and that action - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Lab - Life peer) going to agree on the clauses within the Bill about pets, but I can inform the House that Cara the dog - Speech Link
3: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) That is partly the result of the physical health benefits of owning a dog but also the result of the - Speech Link
4: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) There is a balance to be struck between three variables: the welfare of the pet, the well-being of pet - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Europe: Youth Mobility - Thu 30 Jan 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) at the best of times, as we all know—and the noble Lord was the head of the Joint Council for the Welfare - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) I certainly agree that we have to sort out the welfare bill, because we do not want welfare tourism, - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) services, a fall in per capita GDP, a failure to train and upskill our domestic workforce and more welfare - Speech Link