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Public Bill Committees
Technical and Further Education Bill (First sitting)
Committee Debate: 1st sitting: House of Commons - Tue 22 Nov 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) Most of our members have HE as part of their remit. - Speech Link
2: Kelvin Hopkins (IND - Luton North) use of maths and the loss of statistics from the range of qualifications available. - Speech Link
3: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) Mergers do not necessarily mean the closure of sites, so they do not mean the end of provision for students - Speech Link
4: None Since the publication of the insolvency regime, banks and pension fund managers have been responding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Royal Bank of Scotland - Thu 05 Nov 2015
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) RBS, or indeed any other banks, because of the imposition of the IFRS. - Speech Link
2: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) There must be more of an alignment of the interests of the country, the Government and the banks, and - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) the actions of those making decisions in banks, they should be part of the new regulatory process? - Speech Link
4: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) The concentration of large, too-big-to-fail banks commercial banks leaves the UK uniquely exposed to - Speech Link
5: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) Those included a radical restructuring of RBS and the creation of a number of regional banks. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services Bill - Mon 11 Jun 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) We must all recognise that if we do not change the responsibilities of the boards of banks and those - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) The purpose of the Glass-Steagall Act was to enforce a separation of investment banks from retail banks - Speech Link
3: Lord Burns (CB - Life peer) that I am chairman of a regulated bank, Santander UK, and a shareholder in Santander Group. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) The overnight collapse of one of Britain’s most historic merchant banks caused ripples of concern. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Services - Thu 16 Jan 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Robertson (LAB - Glasgow North West) owing to loss of synergies. - Speech Link
2: Jenny Willott (LDEM - Cardiff Central) billion to guarantee the size of the network until 2015 and to end the closure programmes run by the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tomlinson Report - Tue 17 Dec 2013
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Guto Bebb (IND - Aberconwy) significant concern about banks’ behaviour.Since the publication of the report and its findings, there - Speech Link
2: Guto Bebb (IND - Aberconwy) We should not take our eye off the behaviour of other banks and there are issues within those banks, - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) Some 89% of small businesses are locked into the big five banks. - Speech Link
4: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) banks be split into small banks focusing solely on retail and commercial lending as a means of improving - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Banks - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) simply a result of the increased prevalence of the food banks. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) numbers of people who need the services of the food banks. - Speech Link
3: Tony Baldry (CON - Banbury) experience of running food banks. - Speech Link
4: Anne Begg (LAB - Aberdeen South) the increase in the use of food banks. - Speech Link
5: William Bain (LAB - Glasgow North East) Is this low pay crisis not one of the key drivers of the explosion in the use of food banks? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Feb 2014
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) closure of the Halifax and Huddersfield A and E departments are serious for an area such as ours. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) May we have a debate on the role of the banks in our communities? - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) Many Members will have constituents who are worried about the closure of bank branches—it is not just - Speech Link
4: Tom Blenkinsop (LAB - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The Prime Minister speaks highly of the work that food banks do in all our communities, so will a Minister - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Amendment of the Law - Thu 20 Mar 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ed Balls (LAB - Morley and Outwood) The deficit went up because of a financial crisis and the failure of the banks. - Speech Link
2: Vince Cable (LDEM - Twickenham) It is a consequence of the near-collapse of the banking system and the fact that some banks are now responding - Speech Link
3: Vince Cable (LDEM - Twickenham) in a positive way, and move it in the direction of some of the other banks, such as Lloyds, which have - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) Saving will be a luxury for the hundreds of thousands of people relying on food banks to survive and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office - Wed 27 Nov 2013
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jo Swinson (LDEM - East Dunbartonshire) of the gaps left in communities under the previous closure programmes and when sub-postmasters retired - Speech Link
2: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) Will the Minister intervene to see whether her rescue package can be used to prevent the closure of Kings - Speech Link
3: Jo Swinson (LDEM - East Dunbartonshire) Gentleman mentions an apparent closure, but of course a post office service will continue, and that is - Speech Link
4: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) I congratulate the coalition Government on lifting the long, deep, dark shadow of closure that has hung - Speech Link
5: Mike Weir (SNP - Angus) postmasters in remote rural areas to stop the closure of those branches? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Post Office Network - Tue 02 Nov 2010
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) It is an assurance that the days of wholesale closure are over. - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) The closure of the local post office can have a huge effect on the community, but none more so than those - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) a possible payment of £100,000 to keep the post office serving the community.At the time of the closure - Speech Link
4: Mike Weir (SNP - Angus) we have lost a number of post offices despite vigorous opposition to their closure. - Speech Link