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Lords Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage - Mon 13 Apr 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) He created the social services department. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) They do not say, “We value this woodland only for its social benefit”, or, “We want to retrofit this - Speech Link
3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) We have long campaigned for a brownfield-first approach to housing delivery, and it is greater housing - Speech Link
4: None Why can we do this for housing but not for taxis? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 Apr 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) What steps he is taking to improve standards for social housing. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Housing to set new standards relating to the competence and conduct of social housing staff. - Speech Link
3: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) More social housing is essential but, as Members across the House will know, increasingly distant housing - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) covering the cost of social housing, let alone renting privately. - Speech Link
5: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab - Suffolk Coastal) and even larger towns such as Felixstowe— is the selling off of housing stock by social housing providers - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Armed Forces Bill (Third sitting)
Select Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 26 Mar 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) It states that if the Government are serious about defence housing, the Defence Housing Service’s budget - Speech Link
2: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) The defence housing strategy specifically addresses the issue and sets out that the housing standard - Speech Link
3: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) to all defence housing. - Speech Link
4: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) association, chaired by a Minister and bringing in external expertise from the social rented sector. - Speech Link
5: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) housing is, for decades. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Proposed Visitor Levy - Wed 25 Mar 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) She is a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Minister, but she will be responding on - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) All that would benefit not just York, but North Yorkshire and the wider region. - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) Levies must also benefit local areas more broadly. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) Will the private rented sector and other sectors be included? Who would be included? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Representation of the People Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 24 Mar 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Samantha Dixon (Lab - Chester North and Neston) a crucial layer of support is provided by local authorities to young people who may particularly benefit - Speech Link
2: None The difference is that this duty applies to health and social care trusts instead of local authorities - Speech Link
3: None One in three private rented tenants moves every year and the majority of students move each academic - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026 - Mon 23 Mar 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitehead (Lab - Life peer) Permitted activities within industry initiatives include benefit entitlement checks, energy-efficiency - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Does the Minister share my concern that instead of rented properties being upgraded at the cost of the - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I really want the Government to look again at the possibility of taking forward a social tariff if the - Speech Link
4: Lord Whitehead (Lab - Life peer) I am pleased to inform noble Lords that about 300,000 Welsh households will benefit from this expanded - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Flood Detection and Prevention: Technological Assistance - Thu 19 Mar 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) reimbursed through environmental land management schemes, and that upland farmers in particular will benefit - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) steps are the Government taking to ensure that the benefits of new flood technology reach people in rented - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 12 Mar 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John Grady (Lab - Glasgow East) The social landlords are aware that the women in question have suffered. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Bonavia (Lab - Stevenage) We all benefit from equality for women. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 12 Mar 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Doing this will benefit not just the individuals, it will benefit our country. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Teather (LD - Life peer) cap, which interacts with the high cost of rented housing, might also be needed. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) “worst social policy ever”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Another thing aside from the overall benefit cap is the local housing allowance, which is currently wildly - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rough Sleeping: Families with Children - Wed 11 Mar 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) How far have we come from the purpose of social housing as housing to ensure that everyone can afford - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) and, above all, a lack of social housing. - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) In the late ’70s and the ’80s, more than 80% of Government support for social housinghousing benefit—went - Speech Link
4: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) Let me be clear to Members across the House: that does and should include social homes.Recent housing - Speech Link