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Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) The public want this and the elected House has expressed its will. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Lab - Life peer) opinion on this very personal and sensitive issue. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) Your Lordships’ House should certainly not be a slavish follower of public opinion, but noble Lords should - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) My Lords, we have had several references in the debate so far to a settled public view: that the public - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) at work.For me, that reinforced something that made sense for the country as a whole and its public - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) We will formalise the terms of reference soon and we will ensure that that information is made public - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) This gives me an opportunity to pay tribute to him and his public service as police commissioner and - Speech Link
4: None It will lead to the chilling of free speech and will be a disaster for the public square. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
2nd reading - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) If we want to afford public services, improve people’s lives and compete globally, we cannot consign - Speech Link
2: Ian Sollom (LD - St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) Disabled people should not be shouldering the burden of fixing our public finances. - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) public sector, where money has been taken away, have seen people pushed into other areas where they - Speech Link
4: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Thinking of my toddler and what might happen if I caught coronavirus meant that I sobbed deeply. - Speech Link
5: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) We cannot balance the national budget on the backs of disabled people, and the public know this. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None This includes the effects on the wider economy, the impacts on public services, the costs to business - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) It was tested by independent opinion and the proposition that underlies the spirit of these amendments - Speech Link
3: None Such conduct ultimately weakens the legitimacy of industrial action and undermines public support for - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There will be no legal recourse, no duty to plan and no obligation to protect the public. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Right now, the issue we and the public face is, will we have our emergency and essential public services - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) Certainly in recent years, I have never not been of the opinion that Conservative Members do not think - Speech Link
2: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) just a few years ago and championed at the general election, or whether the sad truth is that the public - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Likewise, Newcastle United’s new ownership, led by the Public Investment Fund, has brought more than - Speech Link
4: Melanie Onn (Lab - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes) ––[Official Report, Football Governance Public Bill Committee, 23 May 2024; c. 244.]What on earth has - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) Those few food industry witnesses who were prepared to give evidence in public wanted one thing. - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) Do we really want to suggest to the public that these foods are dangerous to eat? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) The British public would then happily change their ways. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) All the evidence shows that the public want the Government to act. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) Voluntary pledges such as the failed public health responsibility deal have proven ineffective. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rule of Law - Tue 26 Nov 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Cluny (Lab - Life peer) I hope that this lesson in the value of public service stays with her for life, as it did for me.Many - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) But to maintain public confidence, we need to make sure that justice is done and seen to be done. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) This undermines public respect for the judiciary and for law itself. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) sector—and cuts in benefits and public services. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) Some might say that I am suggesting that the courts bow to the whims of temporary public opinion and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS: Independent Investigation - Tue 08 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None Thirdly, there was coronavirus. - Speech Link
2: None This is a public service, free at the point of use, so that whenever we fall ill we never have to worry - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) wider determinants of health; improvements in and parity for mental health; and a bigger role for public - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) In my opinion, it is something of a backbone of the country. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation - Mon 07 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) Does the Secretary of State agree that protecting continuity of service is key to public confidence in - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) The public are hearing this. - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) As a former public health consultant, I would obviously agree with my hon. Friend. - Speech Link
4: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall and Bloxwich) In our report, we said that public health should be moved into local authorities. - Speech Link
5: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Working with patients and the public, alongside 1.5 million NHS staff, we will rebuild our public services - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19 Inquiry - Tue 03 Sep 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) A nation’s resilience depends on the strength of its infrastructure and public services. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) I put in parentheses that the public health White Paper of December 2010, establishing Public Health - Speech Link
3: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) One way of changing public opinion is by demonstrating that it would be good for the person concerned - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Securing industrial peace is vital to the future of public service resilience. - Speech Link
5: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) There was a public service laboratory that was closed down. - Speech Link