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Commons Chamber
Welfare Spending - Tue 04 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) We have addressed that by rebalancing the payments in universal credit, alongside other reforms. - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) much difficulty understanding that, and why are the Labour Government making cuts to mental health payments - Speech Link
3: Jeevun Sandher (Lab - Loughborough) They were measures that saw someone sanctioned because they went to their wife’s funeral, or that saw - Speech Link
4: Jeevun Sandher (Lab - Loughborough) system, we are making sure that people can try work without the fear of losing their social security payments - Speech Link
5: Oliver Ryan (LAB - Burnley) am glad that we are doing away with it, but neither is the assessment for personal independence payments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ageing and End-of-life Care - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) Members, death is a boom industry, and if they have not already invested in a funeral director, that - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) In the Government’s analysis when they took away winter fuel payments—despite all the warnings—they knew - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Regulation and Inspection of Funeral Services - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) But the Association of Green Funeral Directors, the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral - Speech Link
2: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) a private funeral company. - Speech Link
3: Tessa Munt (LD - Wells and Mendip Hills) Funeral directors deal with people at the most vulnerable time in their lives. - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) Funeral directors have chosen their profession—it is not like there is a conscript army of funeral directors - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) modest incomes who would not have the money to lose.The FCA has also proposed allowing contactless payments - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) venues that I could easily get to to see one of my favourite bands, Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alison Griffiths (Con - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) two senior directors, including one responsible for housing, have left the council with redundancy payments - Speech Link
2: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) They both went to the same funeral director who, to their horror, kept their babies’ bodies in her private - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend is absolutely right to raise the regulation of funeral directors; we have seen a number of shocking - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Government Support for Ukrainians - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) they do have the right to work, and they are supported by funding—for example, the monthly host payments - Speech Link
2: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) Mariia and Ksenia travelled back to Ukraine to attend his funeral. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) The winter fuel payment and the disability payments have proved just how challenging this is.However, - Speech Link
2: None No one came to argue for mitigation—not the Redundancy Payments Service, which had to pay the money, - Speech Link
3: None Service—will cap payments at 8%. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) If there is no money, they will get it from the Redundancy Payments Service. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pride Month - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Member for North Cornwall (Ben Maguire) said about delays in the process of payments to those dismissed - Speech Link
2: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) redress for the injustice, but shockingly, in response to more than 1,000 applications, only 24 payments - Speech Link
3: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) On 11 February 1987, LGSM founder Mark Ashton died of an AIDS-related illness, and his funeral was attended - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) At our first encounter, I asked her to press the Chancellor to U-turn on winter fuel payments. - Speech Link
2: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) In particular, following his funeral last week in Glenrothes, will she join me in paying tribute to John - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) Governments enjoy increased tax from higher earnings and the diminished need to fund social security payments - Speech Link
2: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) for this amendment, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, who, regrettably, is at a funeral - Speech Link