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Commons Chamber
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) I have spent most of my life working with the victims of these crimes, and their voices have informed - Speech Link
2: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) Women and girls face particular threats, both in the home and at the hands of strangers. - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) from the centre down to areas, in order to look at exactly the issue of “by and for”, which the hon. - Speech Link
4: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) , keeping at its heart the experiences of women and girls. - Speech Link
5: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) also instrumental in the development of this strategy, were at the forefront of calls for a code of practice - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
2nd reading - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) not necessarily realise quite how little will come out at the end of it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) At the end of the day, trustees need to seek the best possible returns for their members, because it - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the cost of labour at precisely the wrong moment. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Jane Austen - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) enjoyed the recent BBC drama “Miss Austen”, which looked at Jane Austen’s life through the eyes of her - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) , Bath and, of course, the rectory at Steventon. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) War is part of Austen’s novels, but it is not at the centre of them. - Speech Link
4: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) century at the heart of the English curriculum. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None announced at the historic UK-EU summit—the first of its kind. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) We will be involved in forming the regulations that apply to the UK at every stage, and Members of your - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) to the inordinate delays at the border when coach-loads of children have to get out of the bus to be - Speech Link
4: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) At the moment, we are paying the owners of wind farms literally billions of pounds not to produce electricity - Speech Link
5: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) on the world, opening their eyes to different cultures and different ways of life, and for staff, the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) , I am reminded that today at PMQs, and not for the first time, the leader of the Opposition made reference - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) We usually invite people at the end of term, and I had a Vote Leave poster in my window, but as they - Speech Link
3: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The report that the debate was about looked at the incidence of honour-based abuse and how it is being - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) On my first day of observation at a school in Hackney, we were at the staff briefing at the beginning - Speech Link


Written Statements
Local Government Finance: Provisional Settlement - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) and the costs of delivering services in deprived communities. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Housing Development: Cumulative Impacts - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The main time that cumulative development is taken into account is, of course, at the time of plan-making - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) New housing must not come at the expense of nature or of protected landscapes, and any attempt by the - Speech Link
3: John Milne (LD - Horsham) They took no account at all of the reason why the houses could not be built. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) homes in England by the end of this Parliament. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Its housing policy at the moment has changed the length of time that someone has to be within the area - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) abuse of the system to end the system in its entirety—the goodness of the system that the Minister and - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) As we approach the end of the calendar year, I would like to acknowledge the work of Members who have - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) That is at the root of the changes to the protection model, which I will come to momentarily.The hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) index of multiple deprivation released at the end of October this year. - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner)the increase represents a 1% uplift for local government during the whole life of this Parliament, and - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) I feel like a bit of an old lady in the House these days, having been here in 2010 at the beginning of - Speech Link
4: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) I warmly welcome the settlement, which puts fairness at the heart of local government funding. - Speech Link
5: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) the sharp end of Tory cuts to local government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) and the end of this decade. - Speech Link
2: Jim Dickson (Lab - Dartford) The Chancellor’s Budget, delivered at the end of November, enables the Government to deliver on the priorities - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) This final Bill, at the end of this full-on year of Labour government, leaves me with one fundamental - Speech Link
4: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Without intervention, salary sacrifice would have cost £8 billion a year by the end of the decade. - Speech Link