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Westminster Hall
Universal Basic Income - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) , being pursued by the Welsh Government. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) We would have to find that money from other Departments, or raise new money through higher taxes. - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) We are not talking necessarily about sending everybody cheques every month, and millionaires getting - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) But I say to him and to the Government that this is not okay. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Security Bill
2nd reading - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) a foreign Government is, and how that is addressed. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) and even Parliaments, to write blank cheques for the security and intelligence services every time they - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) It is not just the Government who do not think it is fit for purpose. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) The Government accept that. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) The Government accept that. - Speech Link
6: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) inspections, I have found that the substantial compliance teams in each organisation and the relevant departments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 10 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) A Labour Government would rise to the moment where this Government have badly failed. - Speech Link
2: Jon Trickett (LAB - Hemsworth) What do the Government offer? - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) significantly behind the rest of the G7, yet there is little recognition or action by the Treasury or other key Departments - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) companies that want to become landowners—to get huge tracts of land, evict tenant farmers and get massive cheques - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement - Wed 23 Mar 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) The Chancellor has been signing cheques to fraudsters, including organised criminals and drug dealers - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) nation’s security that in 2020, when we had decided to do short-term spending settlements for most Departments - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) That is what this Government are doing. - Speech Link
4: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) Friend reiterate that this Government are a tax-cutting Government? - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) He suggested that the Scottish Government might want to follow the UK Government in eventually introducing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) financial assets and economic benefits of any kind, including (but not limited to)—(a) gold, cash, cheques - Speech Link
2: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) The Government are doing something in this Bill to try to improve the equality of arms between Government - Speech Link
3: None For that matter, it could go to other Departments of Government and ask whether it is, including the - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) I hope the Government will think about that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sanctions - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) It seems that the legal test required to sanction an individual is too high, because the Departments - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Have the Government considered that? - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) I have been a Minister with a foot in two different Departments, and I can tell the House that it is - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) stop pretending that we are trying to smear the entire Russian people, look at the people writing the cheques - Speech Link
5: Michael Ellis (CON - Northampton North) That is being led by this Government. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
Committee stages: 3rd Sitting - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) Once again, this demonstrates the need to align skills policy with national strategies across Departments—in - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) The chambers of commerce are independent of Government. - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) While they might not be writing out the cheques, they will very much be responsible for the pathway that - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) The Government should take interest in that. - Speech Link
5: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) This Government are going to provide more apprenticeships. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Community Debt Advice Services - Wed 01 Dec 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Yvonne Fovargue (LAB - Makerfield) are expected to wear face coverings when they are not speaking in the debate, in line with current Government - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) are vulnerable due to a change in circumstances—to quote the famous phrase, “We are all just two pay cheques - Speech Link
3: Karl Turner (LAB - Kingston upon Hull East) Friend said, it is true what people say that we are only two pay cheques away from such incredible difficulty - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Departments to help and protect people in financial difficulty. - Speech Link
5: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The majority of people in the country are two pay cheques away from poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 27 Oct 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) staff, and £30 million to the former Health Secretary’s pub landlord—and every single one of those cheques - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) good at saying no to Ministers when it is necessary to do so, and telling them to go back to their Departments - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) made poorer as a result of these decisions.Of course, the Chancellor has announced £150 billion for Departments - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) I hope that the Treasury will make certain that the Departments that spend the extra £12 billion a year - Speech Link
5: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) being well spent in the NHS and through other Departments. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health and Social Care Levy
1st reading - Wed 08 Sep 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) South Ribble will make of that, but I know what they will think after seeing less money in their pay cheques - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) That is what the Government said. - Speech Link
3: Anne Marie Morris (CON - Newton Abbot) I believe that the Government must change that priority.What, then, could the Government do? - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) That applies to all Departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care.The NHS is a great - Speech Link