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Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) If noble Lords want a snapshot of how the country is changing, 31% of all children born in this country - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) On top of that, he has a family and three children. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) My children are worried sick about the state of the debate in this country today. - Speech Link
4: Lord Frost (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The UK’s current fertility rate, about 1.4 children per woman, is the lowest it has ever been. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Earlier this week I met children from Ilchester community primary school. - Speech Link
2: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) campaign for Hugh’s law and the Government’s plan to consult on support for families with seriously ill children - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) important that we have a national minimum wage that really pays the bills and enables people to put food - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Member for that intervention, which allows me to highlight that some 95,000 children in Scotland are - Speech Link
2: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) He would also visit Soul Food, which is a fantastic community meal in Oxgangs every week. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fairtrade Certification - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) The debate so far has concentrated on food, but the university’s analysis shows that, despite strong - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) Member is making an important point about young children in schools. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That is one of the campaigns that school children in Northern Ireland are also part of. The hon. - Speech Link
4: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) , as one of the urchin children said. - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) It is why children will often shout and scream, “That’s not fair!” - Speech Link


Written Statements
Hurricane Melissa: Government Response - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) During my visit to Saint Elizabeth, I met children directly affected by the storm—30% of early learning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seasonal Work - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) facts.It is part-time seasonal and temporary workers, young workers and people in sectors such as food - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) course, many sectors of the economy rely on seasonal employment during peak times, whether that is food - Speech Link
3: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) cut red tape to ensure that the Lea Valley Growers Association, which does an important job growing food - Speech Link
4: Antonia Bance (Lab - Tipton and Wednesbury) That is where low-income families spend any extra pounds on food and on stuff for their kids. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Bool (Con - South Northamptonshire) Take food production as an example; it should be obvious, but that work in that sector is often seasonal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Wed 10 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Looking beneath the headline figures, the rate of inflation for food is at almost 5%. - Speech Link
2: Natalie Fleet (Lab - Bolsover) the most powerful woman in this country, who used her Budget to remove the rape clause, to take children - Speech Link
3: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab - Calder Valley) Gentleman that the problem we have is that two thirds of children growing up in poverty have a parent - Speech Link
4: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) been made, that is most evident in the egregious family farm tax—a betrayal of the producers of our food - Speech Link
5: Jeevun Sandher (Lab - Loughborough) The choice in that budget was between feeding children and paying soldiers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
Committee stage - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) You and your wives and children, and even potentially your grandchildren, are going to be paying for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) not sustainability; it is hypocrisy.Supporting crop-based aviation fuels risks taking land away from food - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) She will know from my comments at Second Reading that I generally do not support the use of food crops - Speech Link
4: Lord Ravensdale (XB - Excepted Hereditary) , potentially raising food prices; they drive land use change and reduce biodiversity. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Several other noble Lords also spoke about their concerns on growing crops for purposes other than food - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) We are following the Cass review, which was clear that the evidence on the care for these children is - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) It is a moral mission of this Government to lift children out of poverty and we intend to do so. - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) In Bath, parents of children with special educational needs, which are often very complex, are crying - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Our ambition is to ensure that all children with SEND have access to the right support. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) On rail journeys lasting over an hour, a guaranteed minimum level of food and drink provision should - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) School children are missing hours of school because their trains are consistently delayed and they miss - Speech Link
3: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Salesian school in my constituency takes in many children from the local and surrounding areas. - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) There is also insourcing rather contracting out, particularly on cleaning and food—and my goodness, do - Speech Link