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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) But we should allow time for local solutions to be explored first. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) It is a transfer of that into thinking how we build right first time, instead of constantly thinking - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) I understand that my noble friend probably cannot answer that, first because the Government have not - Speech Link
4: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) At no point during that time have the Government requested any of the sweeping powers set out here.The - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) We hear that, hot on the heels of the first planning Bill, the Government may now be contemplating a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) At that time, central government had the power and the finance to get these things off the ground, but - Speech Link
2: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) My Lords, this is the first time I have had the opportunity to congratulate the Minister on surviving - Speech Link
3: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) This Bill provides parliamentary time within which the Government could fulfil that commitment, so my - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) First, government guidance, last updated in January this year, states that acquiring authorities should - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) I understand that at least one fatality has been caused.This is not the first time this issue has been - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Consumer Affairs - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) For years, we have lived in Rip-off Britain, and it is time that the Government appointed a consumer - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) I wanted to look at the same basket, going back in time. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) One time I made a complaint and asked an urgent question in the Chamber on it. - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) This Government inherited a really big set of challenges from the last Government, thanks to the Budget - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Blair McDougall (Lab - East Renfrewshire) Could she make time for a debate on the enormous levels of waste by the SNP Government on things like - Speech Link
2: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) Will she commit Government time to a debate on NHS funding for rare conditions? - Speech Link
3: James Frith (Lab - Bury North) Friend grant time to debate Government plans to help schools manage smartphones, so that every child - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Perhaps we could have a debate on this matter in Government time. - Speech Link
5: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Will the Leader of the House grant a debate in Government time on access to grassroots sport? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) The first is unpredictable delays in the process, particularly the time taken between when a planning - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) So they basically have to start again.At the same time, the Government want to reduce all the current - Speech Link
3: None Frankly, if there is a need to get on with it, the Government should first publish the NDMP, as well - Speech Link
4: Lord Howard of Rising (Con - Life peer) At a time of appalling government finances, it is scarcely credible to spend £100 million in this way - Speech Link
5: Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Con - Life peer) It does not matter when the problem started or who was in government at that time; what matters is what - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 04 Jul 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) It’s maddening, frustrating and pitiful all at the same time.”  - Speech Link
2: Mike Reader (Lab - Northampton South) Every time I come home from Parliament, Dash is there waiting for me. - Speech Link
3: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) time, more pedigree cats than moggies were acquired in a 12-month period. - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) The Government must first use these regulation-making powers to introduce three impactful restrictions—restrictions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) the contents of the government amendments in this group. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Government Amendments 38 and 39 are consequential to that.Our Government were elected on the clear manifesto - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) The backlog has been going up: in the first quarter of 2025, the average time between a landlord submitting - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) ; the buyers exchange contracts and we say, “You can’t move in until that time”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, my Amendment 41 was the first in line in this group. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) As my police chief said to me, it is deeply sad that the first time we see these criminally exploited - Speech Link
2: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) It is working in Scotland and a handful of regional police forces, so it is time that the Government - Speech Link
3: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) It is time for the Government to admit that they have got this wrong. - Speech Link
4: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) —(Matt Vickers.)Brought up, and read the First time.Question put, That the clause be read a Second time - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) by disapplying the six-month time limit in s.127 of the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980.Government amendments - Speech Link
2: None First, in Committee, the Government added to the Bill provisions that are now clauses 29 to 33, which - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Sadly, that is not the first time I have heard about such appalling behaviour of attacking and injuring - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 20 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) time in a long time, housing policy in this country does not have any incentives for first-time buyers - Speech Link
2: John Grady (Lab - Glasgow East) On assistance for first-time buyers, is the lifetime ISA not still in operation? - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) for first-time buyers were built. - Speech Link
4: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) , the incentivisation for first-time buyers in the context of that argument has been abandoned, and that - Speech Link