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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) are teaching themselves coding, video producing, editing and even musical instruments, languages and chess - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Office (Accountability) Bill (Fifth sitting) - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) inconsequential matters, such a Minister lying about where they went to university or competing in a chess - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War in Ukraine - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) We all want peace, but appeasement of the Kremlin is not the chess move of a pacifist or an anti-imperialist - Speech Link
2: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) that this attritional, force-on-force, game-of-chequers approach is accompanied by a sophisticated chess - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) We now know the black hole was fake, the Chancellor’s book was fake, her CV was fake—even her chess claims - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) outright brinkmanship might sound familiar to the Cabinet at the moment, but I am actually talking about chess - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) brinkmanship —that might sound familiar to some members of the Cabinet, but I am of course talking about chess - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill
2nd reading - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) It is a shot being fired, and our veterans, I am afraid, are being used as chess pieces in that disgraceful - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) In my patch, I have the River Chess Association, the Mend the Misbourne project, and the Chiltern Society - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) I call my parliamentary chess partner, Warinder Juss, who lost to Kazakhstan by six points. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) not sure that having an education portfolio is the same as registering; I am not sure that being a chess - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) Furthermore, exempting children on the basis of one measure of ability, such as achieving the status of a chess - Speech Link