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Lords Chamber
Charities: National Minimum Wage - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We saw that very clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, when we pledged £750 million to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) My Lords, independent schools are not among the very smallest charities in our country but they are pretty - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) My noble friend speaks with great authority as the president of the Independent Schools Association, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Despite that, childhood obesity rates in Bexley have worsened following the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) We also need to tackle takeaways near secondary schools, which Wandsworth Council is starting to do, - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Schools will have a role and responsibility within that, which is why our fully funded breakfast clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) understand it, the only tax initiatives announced by Labour are to increase taxation, such as VAT on schools - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I am not talking just about the NHS: schools face record deficits, local governments are slashing essentials - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic was made possible through the powerful - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) It applies to other unofficial faith schools as well. - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) will take no lectures from him on schools policy during the pandemic. - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Labour will work with parents and schools to make mainstream schools inclusive, and to make inclusivity - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) I was not sure if she was saying that this was to be in every one of 22,000 schools. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) as well as secondary schools. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Excess Death Trends - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Yet again we are seeing a peak in covid hospitalisations, as we should be expecting from a coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Staffordshire (Sir Gavin Williamson), stood up in the House of Commons and said that he would close schools - Speech Link
3: Karl McCartney (Con - Lincoln) As an aside, it is commendable that the Government recently ensured that all schools have defibrillators - Speech Link
4: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) again, that we believe vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in relation to coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) There are schools of thought on that; one is that when people were locked down, they were not exposed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS Winter Update - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None it needs for the future by doubling the number of medical school places, opening five new medical schools - Speech Link
2: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) are most vulnerable are coming to get vaccinated, first for flu and secondly, of course, for the coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2023 - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) owing to other government priorities relevant to the UK’s exit from the European Union and the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) each of the public sector workforces, including the NHS, local government, police forces, maintained schools - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) first, to deprive pupils studying for GCSE or A-level in lesser-taught languages at supplementary schools - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Schools and public services rose to the challenge remarkably. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Immigration - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) coming here illegally is not fair on those struggling to get GP appointments, housing or access to schools - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) will he bring that to this House with the same speed that we brought through things such as the Coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Horseracing - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Many young people who come into this world do so through riding schools. - Speech Link