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Commons Chamber
Farming and Inheritance Tax - Wed 04 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Of those family farms, only one was earning above the minimum wage, and three were earning significantly - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) He is still working on his farm at 93. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employer National Insurance Contributions - Wed 04 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) For the working men and women in this country, we are the party that understands the difference between - Speech Link
2: Josh Simons (Lab - Makerfield) Do they want to get rid of the experts working with the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust in my - Speech Link
3: Louise Jones (Lab - North East Derbyshire) When I look at Killamarsh junior school, again, I see hard-working staff and young children let down - Speech Link
4: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) wage and other costs will add a further £55,000 a year. - Speech Link
5: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) Now they are going to hit it with NICs and wage increases. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 03 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) For example, for someone working part-time for 25 hours a week on the minimum wage, their salary is £15,912 - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) That is 15 hours a week on the current national minimum wage. - Speech Link
3: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) John Lewis has said that it is worried about the impact of the national minimum wage increase. - Speech Link
4: Mark Ferguson (Lab - Gateshead Central and Whickham) As we have seen, when we increase the minimum wage and put more money in the pockets of working people - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) For a 21-year-old on the legal minimum wage working full time, the cost goes up by £770. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Employment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th Sitting - Thu 28 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) We are not effectively prosecuting minimum wage breaches. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Gibson (LD - Chippenham) all try to communicate better, but I think there is an issue with the national minimum wage. - Speech Link
3: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) minimum wage rates with living wage rates for workers under 21—the hospitality industry in particular - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) It finally managed to make a surplus last year, so it can pay its staff more than the minimum wage and - Speech Link
2: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) people who have been neglected for so many years, including a rise in the minimum wage to boost the - Speech Link
3: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) Some 70,000 minimum-wage workers in Wales will be better off. - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Employing 18-year-olds used to be worthwhile because the national minimum wage was lower and national - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Future of the Post Office - Mon 18 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None The Post Office will continue to deliver on the 11,500 minimum branches requirement set by government - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The threshold for paying them is going down, and obligations around the minimum wage are going up. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) I look forward to working with him on the many issues that we will no doubt discuss. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) We are working towards being able to do that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Farmers Union of Scotland, Martin Kennedy, said:“The new UK Government’s first budget…hammered hard-working - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) In Cumbria alone some 1,400 family farmers, many of whom live on less than the minimum wage, will be - Speech Link
3: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) Friend that the SFO is working incredibly hard in that area. - Speech Link
4: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) I welcome the Solicitor General to her place, and I very much look forward to working with her. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) That means regulators working effectively with investigators in the public interest. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 13 Nov 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) It will put in place a stronger minimum standard of fan engagement in decision-making on a number of - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) As noble Lords may know, and as the Bill team was warned when we were working on the Bill before the - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Let us not intervene in something that is working extremely successfully. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) I look forward to working with Peers to ensure that the Government now get the job done. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rural Affairs - Mon 11 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Many farmers earn less than the minimum wage, and although they own property worth an awful lot of money - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) In fact, they are some of the hardest-working people of any industry. - Speech Link
3: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) The vision is to protect this remote valley, in partnership with farmers. - Speech Link
4: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) We pay our taxes like every other working person does. - Speech Link
5: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) Our farmers are working people. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fuel Poverty - Wed 06 Nov 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) that I wanted, but in the interests of fairness we should acknowledge that if the increase in the minimum - Speech Link
2: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) It is fantastic that colleagues in government are working to raise awareness of pension credit among - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) well, along with a lot of examples where they are not working well. - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) Our strategy on child poverty, the raising of the minimum wage and other factors combine to support households - Speech Link