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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) The Government made the case that this would reduce delays, with the department taking 38 days to respond - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) , she can tell us what the Government are going to do. - Speech Link
3: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) The case for it has been accepted by government since 2008. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I thank the Minister for tabling the government amendment, which His Majesty’s loyal Opposition - Speech Link
5: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) The Government could, and should, be making much more of them. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) This must be guaranteed by government policy. - Speech Link
2: None It is on this Government to match our record. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) The Government cannot support it, however. - Speech Link
4: Lord Tarassenko (XB - Life peer) I know that His Majesty’s Government recognise this. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) The Government share these aims. - 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) government support for this position was not in any way the result of pressure on the Government from - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Government or taxpayer. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The Government have to face up to what they are proposing here. - Speech Link
4: None Basically, the Government tend to seek volunteers to operate in this space. - Speech Link
5: None First, how do the Government define significant scale for superfunds? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Ultimately, this is now a clause in a government Bill. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) I am pointing to the fact that this is a government Bill. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) It will mean a return to the days of backstreet abortions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) the Member should lobby Government Ministers to bring it forward as government legislation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
China: Jimmy Lai - Mon 02 Feb 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab - Life peer) to the far more important release of 78 year-old British citizen, Jimmy Lai, who, as on the 1,860 days - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) It is right that the UK Government engage with China. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) What responses were received and what happens next? - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) What precisely did the Chinese ambassador say, and do the Government find what he said acceptable? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Indefinite Leave to Remain - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Otherwise, I think the Government are going to run into opposition of a scale that they have seen on - Speech Link
2: Patrick Hurley (Lab - Southport) I am asking the Government to draw a clear line on this issue. - Speech Link
3: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) Above all else, the Government should look at the consultation responses without any preconceived notions - Speech Link
4: Tracy Gilbert (Lab - Edinburgh North and Leith) I urge the Government to uphold that principle. - Speech Link
5: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) the Government to consider the responses and then come up with their own response to them. - 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: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) That controls only government activity. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I put in my opposition generally. - Speech Link
3: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) with a Conservative Government. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) If this had been a government Bill, as part of the process, other government departments would have looked - Speech Link
5: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) I am afraid that I am not the Government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (Con - Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) Often, the Government find themselves having to pull their business. - Speech Link
2: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) Currymoor used to fill in 10 days; this week, it filled in four. - Speech Link
3: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) However, given what the French Government and other EU Governments have done, can the UK Government at - Speech Link
4: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) schedule a debate about it in Government time? - Speech Link
5: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) He was a fine Whip and Minister in government and a truly tremendous parliamentarian. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ukraine: Non-recognition of Russian-occupied Territories - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) considered the matter of non-recognition of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.Today is 1,435 days - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) People can expect to receive water every four days. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) This debate today must prove once again that our Government are not for turning. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Does he welcome the investigation that the Government have launched? - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I thank the Minister for his comprehensive and positive responses to questions. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) If the Government want to reorganise local government across the country, why not bring London in line - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The period will be eight days. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) Will the Government consider a bit more flexibility? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I urge the Government to look further at the role of town and parish councils in the new local government - Speech Link