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Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) A population that is ageing with comorbidities, and the balance between the working-age population and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) of social care, act as a champion for older adults, disabled people and unpaid carers and accelerate - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) , as well as those in public health, work truly collaboratively to help our growing and older population - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (XB - Life peer) We saw people moving into the homes of older and disabled people, leaving their own families and putting - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) With our country’s population ageing, the health of the public worsening and chronic disease rising, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) There has been an increase in the number of older teenagers entering care. - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) who traditionally fostered and adopted are ageing, and they are not being replaced. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) and young people in this country, and to set out overdue solutions that the Government must take to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Too few children and young people are supported by foster parents or kinship carers, and too few are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) It affected older people much more severely. - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) and were not protecting people. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) That might be accounted for simply by an ageing population, by long covid, or by the effects of an NHS - Speech Link
4: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) The study continued:“The greatest numbers of excess deaths in the acute phase of the pandemic were in older - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) We are an ageing society facing rising chronic disease. - Speech Link
2: Chloe Smith (Con - Norwich North) A person’s friend, a year older, may well be able to go into a shop or online and get two packets and - Speech Link
3: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) The combination of an ageing population and the billions of pounds provided year after year in taxpayers - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) could be difficult to enforce, especially as those people get older. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) issues and challenges that affect the pensions system and the ageing population, such as the adequacy - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) People have been plunged into poverty through no fault of their own, and have felt abandoned given the - Speech Link
3: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) found herself unable to secure employment in a jobs market defined by systematic discrimination against older - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) People with a severe disability, carers and those who are responsible for a child or young person who - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Those are the people we are fighting for. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) We need to do better as we get older to deliver on all our ambitions to help our children, to save money - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) They must train people who can be taken on and allow migration so that people can come and work in our - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) economic distortion caused by our broken housing market, with 80% of household wealth belonging to older - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Budget leaves a “booby trap” as it fails to recognise the pressures that an ageing population will place - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) people get the care they need as they grow older and less able to look after themselves, valuing and - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Given the ageing population, surely we should be making greater provision. - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) crumble, and our people suffer. - Speech Link
4: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) social care also remains bleak, with the Government’s ambition failing to meet the essential needs of older - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (Con - Torridge and West Devon) to produce food and not encourage people not to produce it? - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) That has to change; we are all getting older and that knowledge is needed. - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) “With an ageing demographic in the farmer population, many are scaling back as it’s no longer viable - Speech Link
4: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Why do so many millions of people come to this country and go to Scotland, Ireland and Dorset? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Long-Term National Housing Strategy - Thu 29 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) It means that young people cannot afford to leave home and start a family and poor people cannot get - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) In a society with a growing ageing population, we are already experiencing a severe shortage of homes - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) people, in order to release the pressure on acute hospital care and to enable older people to release - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Exclusion - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Age UK has noted that this trend has a profound impact on older people. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) I make that point because we tend to think that it is older people who are digitally excluded. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) People are less likely to be able to have digital skills if they are more vulnerable, older, or in poverty - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) There is also an organisation called Silver Surfers, which provides older people with access to the services - Speech Link