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Lords Chamber
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 - Wed 22 Jul 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) PIP is not itself an unemployment benefit, but it sits within a wider health and disability benefits - Speech Link
2: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) It is due to the unprecedented rise in the number of people claiming disability and benefits. - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) If more people require disability benefits because of deteriorating mental health, delayed treatment, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The fact is that the system of sickness and disability benefits that we inherited was simply not fit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Housing Bill [HL] - Mon 20 Jul 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None are not eligible for social housing. - Speech Link
2: None are not eligible for social housing. - Speech Link
3: None Access to social housing is managed through the allocations framework, where social landlords can already - Speech Link
4: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) I should declare my situation: I am a social entrepreneur, a social investor, who runs a business, The - Speech Link
5: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) about social transformation.Companies such as L&G want to build more social housing, but the impediments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 17 Jul 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) Why should she keep the house and all the benefits of his contributions, for which he gets no recognition - Speech Link
2: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) because I come from a very poor community where marriage is almost non-existent and many of our poor social - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Work and Pensions Committee - Thu 16 Jul 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) In 2005, spending on the state pension and pensioner benefits was 5.3% of GDP. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Government Record on Education, Employment and Welfare - Thu 16 Jul 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) Spending on incapacity and disability benefits is forecast to rise to £100.7 billion … pushing the total - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I will focus on social security—called “welfare” in the Motion—but first I shall mention the education - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Thu 16 Jul 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) I hope that we will see future agreements and benefits for the UK.I have also continued to work hard - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) He was a huge mentor of mine and he constantly fretted about my security. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) Ministers and officials in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero are well aware of this, as - Speech Link
4: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) I hope that we will see a positive way forward there.As a Member who has a disability, I am delighted - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Timms Review: Interim Report - Thu 09 Jul 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Bedford (Con - Mid Leicestershire) We would restrict access to sickness and disability benefits for those without a long-term connection - Speech Link
2: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) In 2024 prices, spending on incapacity and disability benefits rose from £34 billion a year in 2019 to - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) One of the things that I am pleased about is that my job title is Minister for Social Security. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 15th sitting - Thu 09 Jul 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None Secretary of State must have due regard to the final report of the Independent Commission on Adult Social - Speech Link
2: Peter Prinsley (Lab - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) That involves having a pharmacy that is open at night and ensuring that social workers are there when - Speech Link
3: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) of this deal, and I am sure that there are benefits. - Speech Link
4: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) I am a member of the Health and Social Care Committee, and we took evidence as he described. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy - Wed 08 Jul 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) I think we all agree that AI is a transformational technology with the potential to bring many benefits - Speech Link
2: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) Only public investment can support AI that prioritises social and environmental challenges. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Finally, we are about to make the same mistake with chatbots as we did with social media. - Speech Link
4: Anna Gelderd (Lab - South East Cornwall) Social media is not a village noticeboard. - Speech Link
5: Victoria Collins (LD - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) The AI Safety Institute is now the AI Security Institute. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 07 Jul 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) There are 350,000 retired railway workers on index-linked defined pension benefits. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) In my experience, monopoly always offers short-term benefits, sometimes provides short-term benefits, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) Their presence provides a sense of security, especially to female passengers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) What did we learn about safety and security? - Speech Link