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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) the two-child benefit limit and raising the minimum wage. - Speech Link
2: Sean Woodcock (Lab - Banbury) What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the impact of the abolition of the two-child benefit - Speech Link
3: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) The lifting of the two-child benefit cap in Northern Ireland will help more than 17,000 children and - Speech Link
4: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) The increase in national insurance was a decision that the Government took to deal with the inheritance - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) No parent should have to fight for the support their child needs. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Call for General Election - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) The period in the late 2010s, when we saw frequent general elections, did not lead to a general increase - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) Recently, we scrapped the two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) The grant that comes out of central Government to cover the rise covers only about 70% of the increase - Speech Link
4: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) our increase to the state pension? - Speech Link
5: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) here to see the benefit of the U-turn.The reality is that taxes have gone up, despite the Prime Minister - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) We Liberal Democrats welcome the decision by the Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link
2: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) That is why I welcome the decision to abolish the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Services Authority.I want to talk about the two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link
4: Mary Glindon (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend) On social security, I am delighted by the decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic and Taxation Policies: Jobs, Growth and Prosperity - Thu 13 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) , to 2029, replacing the Conservative plan to cut investment growth to a miserable 1.7% per annum: a - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) So we should stick to the fiscal rules, which means that the Government have either to increase taxes - Speech Link
3: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) necessarily enough for the noble Baroness, Lady O’Grady—will be to change the two-child benefit cap, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
House Building: London - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Danny Beales (Lab - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) We have subsidised private landlords to the tune of many billions of pounds through housing benefit payments - Speech Link
2: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) I will take them in turn.First, granting the right to reduce the level of affordable housing per project - Speech Link
3: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) he needed £4.9 billion per year for the next 10 years to build affordable homes. - Speech Link
4: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) I call the Minister to respond to the debate, and perhaps he can give Mr French a minute at the end to - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) first instance to seek grant to maintain or increase the level of affordable housing in existing section - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Property Service Charges - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) The first amount becomes £3,400, going up to a whopping £8,000 per annum—a 135% increase. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) The increase in costs is primarily to cover the future replacement of playground equipment, street lighting - Speech Link
3: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) be in the service charge but were then separated out, it is closer to the increase they cited.Maintenance - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) to pay the fee up front for the council to adopt the road? - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) The next year they went up to £3,700, which is a further 43% increase. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Stamp Duty Land Tax - Tue 28 Oct 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jim Dickson (Lab - Dartford) In the short term, for instance, it would be possible to increase the number of council tax bands to - Speech Link
2: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) knows why we had to increase the national debt as a result. - Speech Link
3: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) for families that need to increase the size of the house they own? - Speech Link
4: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) The Liberal Democrats propose to raise the number from the Government’s target of 20,000 per year to - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) The effect of the stamp duty holiday was to increase house prices. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Rights to the Lord Chancellor, on the Sentencing Bill, reported to the House on 15 October.] - Speech Link
2: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) ) inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity;(f) paying for the sexual services of a child - Speech Link
3: None The Government have pretended to do whatever is necessary to help reduce the risk posed by child sex - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) and how we are seeking to increase the support that we provide.Pre-sentencing reports help the courts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) new schools to meet need and to ensure every child has the opportunity to achieve and to thrive. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) or any mainstream school to manage the child safely. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) a child is likely to exceed the benefits to the excluded child of reinstatement. - Speech Link
4: None than it used to be, is not child-friendly in the sense of enabling the child to understand what is happening - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) development corporations to increase in the coming years. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) For the state or local authority simply to swipe the increase in value that the owner has nurtured and - Speech Link
3: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) As from 1 April this year, the average household has had an increase of £9.25 to its monthly bill. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) any increase in risk to the water and food security of the UK.As noble Lords know, the measures in this - Speech Link
5: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) That is what I understood the Minister to say, so I ask her to confirm that.For the benefit of clarity - Speech Link