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Commons Chamber
Banks (Financial Exclusion and Access to Finance)
1st reading - Wed 14 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) in improving access to finance for small- and medium-sized businesses; to establish a system for rating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Tue 13 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) on personal representatives, pension scheme administrators, and HM Revenue and Customs, and(c) any behavioural - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The Chancellor should assess the real impact on saving behaviour and personal representatives. - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) protracted litigation and will understandably make personal representatives, such as professionals or - Speech Link
4: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) It sets out the impact on individuals, and accounts for the impact on personal representatives.As hon - Speech Link
5: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) It represents the right choice—investment and renewal over austerity and decline.Clause 86 of the Finance - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Call for General Election - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Debt and borrowing are up—on interest alone, gilt yields are higher than ever, at 5.72%. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) With those savings, we will reduce the debt and, crucially, cut the cost of doing business, particularly - Speech Link
3: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk and others, and it is clear now, as it was at the last - Speech Link
4: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) and exercise to get their blood pumping and to get them ready for the day and ready to learn. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) We have the resources and the need, so why do we not just get on and do it? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) These raise private debt to put alongside public grant to fund social housebuilding, and currently have - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) issue debt, so we could build affordable housing or new towns and so on. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Is the intention to focus on infrastructure, debt servicing or supporting new towns and similar developments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Clause 1 - Mon 12 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) growing our economy and the debt becoming a smaller share of GDP, and that is something this Government - Speech Link
2: None to enable us to reduce debt, and we are doing that, in part through this decision. - Speech Link
3: None The 14 months of personal anxiety and business uncertainty will have lasting impacts on many and have - Speech Link
4: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) I welcome the Finance Bill. I will address clause 62 and schedule 12, which relate to APR and BPR. - Speech Link
5: Sorcha Eastwood (APNI - Lagan Valley) , Deputy First Minister and Finance Minister, which called clearly for a higher threshold and spousal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Street Gambling Reform - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) Gambling establishments entice people to come in and then ply them with food and drink, and teas and - Speech Link
2: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) Gambling fuels cycles of debt, secrecy and shame, driving anxiety and depression, and placing unbearable - Speech Link
3: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) We know that where gambling outlets cluster, harm increases, from debt and mental ill health to family - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) However, I accept that such a question is probably not best placed in the finance section and we will - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) But beyond flattery, the Minister has given a very personal and powerful commitment to seek to achieve - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) and Northern Ireland to engage immediately with the Chagossian people … and to respect and guarantee - Speech Link
2: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) Lady Meyer, and the noble Lords, Lord Callanan and Lord Hannan; I also support Amendments 19 and 33 - Speech Link
3: None The UK can permit access, basing and overflight to non-UK and non-US forces to Diego Garcia, and may - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
2nd reading - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) This Bill, as everyone knows, contains a reserve power to authorise DC master trusts and group personal - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That reduces the corporation tax payable by the company because debt interest is tax-deductible, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) it is vital that secondary legislation governing group personal pensions, the LGPS and the wider Bill - Speech Link
4: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) This combination of a growing reliance on debt finance and foreign capital is a matter of concern. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It would therefore be reassuring to hear from the Minister whether the Debt Management Office and the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) and a happy, peaceful, prosperous and, above all else, healthy new year. - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) Cutting Government funding to these vital landscapes and telling them to look to private finance makes - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) November brought Mozartfest and lively am-dram Gilbert and Sullivan productions, and May brought the - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) walk this earth and to die an awful death on the cross for my salvation—and all our salvation—and to - Speech Link
5: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) and listening, and I hope for a peaceful, safe and happy Christmas and new year. - Speech Link