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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Currently, payments in respect of service before 1997 are not uprated with inflation, and affected members - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) My noble friend Lady Kramer, who is attending a funeral this afternoon, had intended to speak to this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I welcome the acknowledgment of the injustice of the pre-1997 frozen payments, with the oldest people - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) There is a provision in Clause 10 which allows conditions to be set on making payments. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Reintroducing tax credits on dividend payments and cutting stamp duty on UK share purchases are among - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) Following a string of shocking cases in which funeral directors did not treat the bodies of the deceased - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office is at a funeral - Speech Link
2: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) We consulted in the summer, including on late payments and reforming social value, and we are going to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lauren Sullivan (Lab - Gravesham) This morning, I had the honour of attending the funeral of Makhan Singh, a kind and dedicated public - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) under consecutive Governments, millions of pounds of public money has gone to waste on interest payments - Speech Link
3: None made for statutory payments made by employers for cancelling, moving or curtailing a shift to be treated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill
2nd reading - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Julian Smith (Con - Skipton and Ripon) regulations I brought in as Secretary of State on behalf of the last Conservative Government on victims’ payments - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) yet we are still arguing about it even today.Let me take us back about a month to Norman Tebbit’s funeral - Speech Link
3: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) I missed Tim’s funeral—something I regret to this day. - Speech Link


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