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Lords Chamber
BBC and Public Service Broadcasting - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Gilbert of Panteg (CON - Life peer) over-75 free licences. - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) of funding TV licences for the elderly. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) We have to maintain funding for the BBC, but instead of the poll-tax funding model, we need a secure, - Speech Link
4: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (LAB - Life peer) have said, in the despicable way of passing the buck for free TV licences for the over-75s, which is - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Feb 2020
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) from harm, but in the meantime, for those struggling with problem gambling, the Department of Health - Speech Link
2: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) The Government have committed to maintain the licence fee funding model for the duration of this 11-year - Speech Link
3: Eddie Hughes (CON - Walsall North) and focus instead on its agreement to provide free TV licences for over-75s? - Speech Link
4: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) As we made clear in our manifesto, we recognise the value of free TV licences for over-75s. - Speech Link
5: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) confirming their commitment to free speech and that they want the UK to be the safest place for users - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
BBC Licence Fee - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Tracy Brabin (LAB - Batley and Spen) effective way of funding the BBC? - Speech Link
2: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Given the demand that the BBC takes on social policy on the over-75s concessionary TV licence and now - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) We absolutely recognise the value of free TV licences for the over-75s and believe they should be funded - Speech Link
4: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) On the over-75s free licence, we believe that is the responsibility of the BBC. - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Given the shambles of the licence fee for over-75s, does the Minister agree that power over the licence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Christopher Pincher (IND - Tamworth) the President on his announcement on visa-free access for UK nationals. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) To support the development of the African continental free trade area, the Secretary of State for International - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) stolen from the African people over the years. - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) After the BBC recently reneged on the funding agreement for free TV licences for over-75s, will the Minister - Speech Link
5: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) , but we also want to leave the door ajar for it to take the confidence-building steps—when the regime - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Jan 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) If she will make it her policy to maintain free TV licences for people over the age of 75. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) If she will make it her policy to maintain free TV licences for people over the age of 75. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) As we said in our manifesto, we recognise the value of the free TV licence for over-75s, and they should - Speech Link
4: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) responsibility for the over-75 concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
The Economy - Thu 24 Oct 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Luke Graham (CON - Ochil and South Perthshire) Yes, over the past two years, we delivered the VAT changes to get £35 million back for our police and - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) nothing about reversing the proposal to take away the television licence for the over-75s. - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) Member for Newport West (Ruth Jones), who is calling again for the BBC to honour the right of the over - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (LAB - Ogmore) has highlighted that the Government’s decision to scrap free TV licences for the over-75s will put them - Speech Link
2: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) It is up to the BBC to fund these licences. The hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) commit to reverse the cuts to BBC funding for the over-75s licence fee. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (CB - Life peer) I will look for support for the Bill from the Government and from across the House, because I believe - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheeler (LAB - Life peer) “national scandal” of social care, advocating free personal care for the over-65s. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blackstone (LAB - Life peer) Why is the promised extra funding for FE so small? - Speech Link
5: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Concern over the funding of music hubs has been highlighted by widely reported comments from, for example - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) to take some responsibility for this. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) for the over 75s, that,“looking back … it was wrong to impose on the BBC what was effectively a welfare - Speech Link
3: Lord Woolf (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) from half to two-thirds for the most serious offences. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) and funding, and referred to the crisis in funding for social care. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) of sensible points over the past few days, talked about the Minister for the Constitution. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
BBC - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Karen Lee (LAB - Lincoln) the Government to continue funding free TV licences for the over-75s. - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (LAB - Blackley and Broughton) television licences for the over-75s. - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) guarantee that free TV licences for the over-75s would be protected. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) when discussing the importance of free TV licences for the over-75s. - Speech Link