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Westminster Hall
Funeral Plan Industry - Thu 26 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lucy Allan (CON - Telford) require plans that are fully paid—we should not forget that most plans are fully paid—to make further payments - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) The eligibility criteria need to be simplified to allow payments to reach more people.I have in front - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) As has been said, a funeral plan is not in itself necessary to pay for a funeral. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) Some of it falls due as cash payments and some of it is rolled over. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) not know about anybody else’s, but my office is inundated with people saying, “I’ve got to go to a funeral - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) crucial at a time when people have less, if any, disposable income.I spoke last week about Safe Hands funeral - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases - Tue 17 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) Nadia had to spend months challenging her care payments when they went up from £15 to £68 per week. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) There is no benefit uplift, no subsided electricity or gas payments, and not even a food voucher for - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) That is on top of existing targeted support such as the warm home discount, cold weather payments and - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) winter fuel payments. - Speech Link
5: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) They wish to get a passport to enable them to go to a family funeral overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The poem was read by me at my father’s funeral, so I hope that we will agree on many matters.I refer - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) carbon emitted elsewhere are sequestrated there, and there will no doubt be more in the future, but no payments - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) He could have matched the increase in Scottish-issued social security payments by 6%. - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) As Fair Game has highlighted, we also need an overhaul of the outdated parachute payments system and - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) An increase in social security payments, with an uplift in universal credit, is the obvious way to do - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I also hope to see interim provisions in the financial services Bill to improve the regulation of funeral - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Allan (CON - Telford) The collapse of funeral plan provider Safe Hands has left 46,000 people facing the loss of their funeral - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Dignity, one of the largest funeral plan providers, has committed temporarily to provide funerals to - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) to cohabitees with children, so that people who have waited three years will soon get their payments - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) , on top of almost £1.5 billion in discretionary housing payments to local authorities since 2011. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Subsidy Control Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: None whether a subsidy exists: from grants to loans, to loan guarantees, to benefits in kind, to contractual payments - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) I do so in lieu of the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, who, unfortunately, has to be at a funeral this - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) been dependent, therefore, on a range of different subsidy regimes, whether that is headage or area payments - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) Committee session of the Subsidy Control Bill on 9 February, I stated that data for England from the Rural Payments - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ukrainian Refugees - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) invasion of Ukraine, including rights of access to suitable accommodation, medical care, social welfare payments - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) have compelling and compassionate circumstances—for example, someone seeking to travel to the UK for a funeral - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Judicial Review and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Thu 24 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None are provisions that enable a coroner to authorise the disposal of a body so that families may hold a funeral - Speech Link
2: None has considered whether a full investigation should be carried out or discontinued, by which time a funeral - Speech Link
3: None TribunalsPayments in respect of pro bono representation: tribunals (1) Section 194 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (payments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 04 Feb 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Edwards (CON - Rushcliffe) laws will serve as both a deterrent and an educational tool for many.As the common agricultural policy payments - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) To give him some idea, we envisage that the Rural Payments Agency, the Animal and Plant Health Agency - Speech Link