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Westminster Hall
Free School Meals - Tue 18 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) That was absolutely the right thing to do to ensure that children were not left hungry and at a disadvantage - Speech Link
2: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) Do you agree that children going to school hungry in the sixth richest economy in the world is a scourge - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool West Derby) When the Right to Food campaign ran a consultation across the country during covid, so many parents said - Speech Link
4: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) There is no reason for any child to go to school hungry. - Speech Link
5: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) It is shocking that the Food Foundation has reported that one in five schools runs a food bank, and that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Free School Meals (Automatic Registration of Eligible Children) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 14 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Peter Lamb (Lab - Crawley) fortune in having the chance to introduce a Bill in my first year as a Member of this House and to seek - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) that which the last Labour Government left us in 2010, with one in three children able to get a free - Speech Link
3: Shaun Davies (Lab - Telford) We should call on the Government to go harder, faster, in implementing the policy.Some 900,000 more children - Speech Link
4: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Friend the Member for Crawley (Peter Lamb) said, in a typical UK classroom one third of children will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 13 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) Leader of the House agree that no child should go hungry in 2025, and will she ask the Government to - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) May I, too, wish a very happy Holi to all the Hindus celebrating in the UK and across the world tomorrow - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) May we have a debate in Government time on the importance of the shipping sector to the UK economy? - Speech Link
4: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) May we have a debate on the food and drink industry in the UK, which is one of our greatest achievements - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) A recent UK legal opinion has affirmed the Kabyle people’s right to self-determination under international - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
India and Southeast Asia: Free Trade Agreements - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) a trade deal with what is soon-to-be the third biggest economy in the world is a no-brainer, and a top - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Finally, I note the lack of democracy in the situation we are now in compared to when we were a member - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) increase in UK exports to India of between £8.8 billion and £16.7 billion by 2035 and a boost to UK - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) In any trade agreement, one of the main ambitions is to reduce the tariffs that UK exporters face. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) It is the Government�s job to respond to those questions and concerns and, in so doing, to make the case - Speech Link
2: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) One in seven state primary schools in the UK do not have a dedicated library or reading space, and almost - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Would the Leader of the House either consider having a debate on how we make access to drugs on trial - Speech Link
4: Emma Foody (LAB - Cramlington and Killingworth) May we have a debate in Government time to update the House on the action the Government are taking to - Speech Link
5: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend is right to raise the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, which has been raised a number of times in the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025 - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) earnings in the year to May to July 2024. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) the principle that support should be tied to changing rents in a local area. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) The Joseph Rowntree report has been mentioned already; it tells us that one in five people in the UK— - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting) - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) would risk stifling the innovation that local authorities have to deliver HAF in a way that is right - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Every primary and secondary school child living in poverty should be able to access a hot, healthy meal - Speech Link
3: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) For example, a young teenager said:“I knew my teachers all knew, but no-one spoke to me about the fact - Speech Link
4: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) that the Bill should provide a default delegated authority for foster carers to make day-to-day decisions - Speech Link
5: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) support that they need in response to some of the worst experiences that a human being can go through - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting) - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) that the local authority would have a role in, the Secretary of State will make the decision, to ensure - Speech Link
2: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Given the breadth of legal areas that the Bill covers, it is prudent to provide a failsafe should anything - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.I rise to speak to the new clause, tabled in my - Speech Link
4: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) Ensuring that every child in a school has access to the same food also helps to reduce the stigma and - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) up, so the incoming Government have inherited one in three children being able to get a free school - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Creative Industries - Mon 27 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) Access to arts education is not a luxury; it should be viewed as a right. - Speech Link
2: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) I will try to make a case—go with me on this one—that protecting our creative industry and the high-quality - Speech Link
3: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) One in 10 tourists to the UK visited a theatre, for example, and theatres sell 34 million tickets a year - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Member for Caerfyrddin (Ann Davies), she is quite rightthe poem is a good one:“To be born in Wales, - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) to be able to make a living properly in the creative industries.Several Members referred to the issue - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 21 Jan 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) In terms of a broad legal requirement, and what all children as a minimum should be able to access, I - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) At the moment, that goes up to 21; we think it should go up to the age of 25, in line with other entitlements - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) The Bill takes a step in the right direction. - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) There are one or two caveats I will go on to talk about, but in broad principle it is right to create - Speech Link
5: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) I want to make a reference to the previous witness. - Speech Link