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Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) We have ended the premium that 4 million households, often among the poorest, have to pay on their energy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) giants pay their fair share.This is because the OBR says we are only half way through this period of severe - Speech Link
3: Baroness Moyo (CON - Life peer) It is an honour to take my place on these distinguished Benches. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Wed 15 Mar 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) Ill health and disability are on the rise, and the consequences, as we have just heard, have been deferred - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) Soaring inflation has hit the poorest hardest, because energy and food costs take up a larger share of - Speech Link
3: Mary Robinson (CON - Cheadle) , so measures that will not only create jobs but make it easier for people to take them up are hugely - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Rather than build our country up, they take out. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult Social Care - Wed 08 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) We said, “Let’s have a social care premium.” - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LDEM - North Shropshire) As I am sure we can all imagine, the impact on those individuals would be extremely severe. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty: Food Costs - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) That is a classic example of the poverty premium; someone either pays more to buy locally, or they pay - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) That is the food premium that my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield mentioned. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) I would not take kindly to that; indeed, I do not know many people who would take kindly to being told - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The consequences are severe. - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) to pensioner households on top of their winter fuel payment, and individuals in receipt of eligible disability - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security and Pensions - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) source of income for pensioners living in, or at risk of moving into, poverty because of the very low take-up - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) We need to be in a situation where we encourage all our constituents to take up pension credit. - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) I ask the Government to put just as much effort into advertising things like pension credit take-up as - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) The private sector is obliging the benefits system to take up the slack of the dysfunctional market in - Speech Link
5: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) the take-up of pension credit.Let me be clear: we will, of course, support the motion, but the Government - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
2nd reading - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Prashar (CB - Life peer) schools that serve disadvantaged communities need to be given more support by increasing the pupil premium - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) At a time when the OBR has just hiked its forecast for future incapacity and disability benefits spending - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We have a severe crisis of housing supply and affordability, as others have explained. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Grey-Thompson (CB - Life peer) This could be due to their income, where they live, their ethnicity, disability or many other factors - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) provide assistance to local authorities in drafting their local plans.Through a discretionary council tax premium - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Friend and I know he will take the matter up further with the regulator. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) to go without food or without heat because they could not afford both—and that was before the recent severe - Speech Link
3: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) This year, I have tabled four written questions asking what the take-up rate of that scheme has been - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
BBC: Future Funding (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Fri 16 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Hall of Birkenhead (CB - Life peer) to remember that there are still 8 million people—mostly people who are poorer, live alone, have a disability - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) decline over a long period.Secondly, the financial pressures on the BBC in the past 10 years have been severe - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) “Well, the wife’s up the spout again.” - Speech Link
4: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) One is the dividing line in domestic, in terms of what is a premium product or content and what is not - Speech Link
5: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) A much-promised review needs to take place. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) What recent progress the Government have made on implementing the national disability strategy. - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) In January 2022, the High Court declared the national disability strategy unlawful. - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) girls, we are funding programmes such as the advanced mathematics support programme, the advanced maths premium - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Businesses across Scotland have already suffered severe economic damage under this Tory Brexit agenda - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy (oil and gas) profits levy - Tue 22 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) OBR confirms we will see less severe inflation and a shallower recession, but perhaps most importantly - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) They are living in accommodation with severe damp and mould, alongside infestations of mice and rats. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) The OBR forecasts that an additional 1.1 million people will need health and disability benefits in four - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) households will not have, or via a fund that is yet to be designed.When we think about the poverty premium - Speech Link
5: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) to 45% of all households in Wales into fuel poverty, with 8% thrown into severe fuel poverty.Given the - Speech Link