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Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) I am grateful to him for bringing this debate to the Chamber and lending his expertise on flooding, I - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) As I have already said, however, I have asked for alternative geographical boundaries to be considered - Speech Link
3: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) What he said in his concluding remarks about the “alternative geographical boundaries” and looking at - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) to block the process.Secondly, successive Housing Ministers have championed commonhold as a viable alternative - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It may be unpopular with developers but I believe it offers a realistic alternative to the flawed leasehold - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) those who control and manage blocks in which anything not expressly forbidden is fair game, mortgage-lending - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) London’s housing strategy calls on the Government to introduce alternative tenures, such as commonhold - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) and Lord Bailey and many other noble Lords regarding a lack of commonhold measures as a meaningful alternative - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for lending her support to Amendment 2. - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) emergency lairage facilities that can be used to provide animals with appropriate rest periods; using alternative - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) place, Baroness Altmann, Baroness Bowles and others are supporting a private Member’s Bill called the Alternative - Speech Link
2: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) the tax on renewable liquid fuels in the Budget would have reduced their cost and made them a viable alternative - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the tax on renewable liquid fuels in the Budget would have reduced their cost and made them a viable alternative - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) Supply not meeting demand is the cause of all of this: an unbalanced lending environment in which bank - Speech Link
5: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Also, a new alternative provision free school was announced in the Budget. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This means that employers are obliged to offer a suitable alternative vacancy where one is available, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) I am, of course, referring to payday lending and gambling. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) school runs a breakfast club because so many children were going without, and it has also set up a lending - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) initial £105 million over the next four years in building new special free schools, and 20 successful alternative - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Book Day - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) pleasure a few years ago of visiting Innerpeffray library in Perthshire, which is Scotland’s oldest free lending - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) chance encounter, and because she was introduced to books when she needed something to show her an alternative - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independent School Fees: VAT - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) adults via universities, for example, or other forms of education such as private tutoring, which is the alternative - Speech Link
2: Darren Henry (Con - Broxtowe) look at more economical ways of renting out those spaces and would not be financially able to continue lending - Speech Link
3: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) exempt specialist settings from this policy and on whether that will apply to all of them, including the alternative - Speech Link


Petitions
Ulverston Library - Mon 19 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None the full repair and refurbishment of the existing library building, as well as options to relocate to alternative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Developing World: Debt Reduction - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) One of the most important ways to counter it is by offering an alternative, so that when countries are - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) That is a better thing to do in many instances than lending those countries money. - Speech Link