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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) If you do not have systematic, reliable data from every part of the country, it is very difficult to - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) advocacy that is often provided by what we call “by and for” services —these are particularly helpful for black - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) However, on-the-ground organisations—notably Southall Black Sisters, to which I pay great tribute for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) The amendment is in two parts, inserting when Rwanda may be treated as a safe country and when Rwanda - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) that this House is not just trying to legislate that Rwanda is safe now—in other words that white is black - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) It was not just one refugee; many refugees are taken from Rwanda by this country, which begs the question - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) respectively.Alasdair spoke about the challenges of making ends meet in circumstances that are far from black - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) I also remind the Minister that there are 7 million functionally illiterate adults in this country; for - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) If it is the case that they cannot do so, the country and the carer community will be looking to the - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) I want, like many, to begin by paying tribute to the millions of unpaid carers across this country. - Speech Link
5: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) It is a real black hole in the Government’s support for carers that there is no national carers strategy - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) scope of HMRC and who should pay tax and not avoid it—that is, not defraud other taxpayers and the country - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) What I am advocating to the Committee is that, in terms of our approach in this country to everyone in - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) have “test and learn”, “filtering”—which sounds extraordinary—and “signals” but none seem to be in the black - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Enfield, Southgate) We need to look at how hospices are funded in this country. - Speech Link
2: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) A reduced service will increase inequality across our city of Birmingham and the country. - Speech Link
3: Edward Timpson (Con - Eddisbury) This financial year, for example, will see a £350,000 black hole in the finances of St Luke’s, not helped - Speech Link
4: Chris Green (Con - Bolton West) other parts of the country are poorer and perhaps have been hit harder in recent years. - Speech Link
5: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) It is clear that there will be a growing need for hospice care in our country. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) That visitor economy is essential to all parts of our country, but it is really important to London. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) I encourage other zoos across the country, and indeed across the world, to consider the same thing. - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) war, and while travelling across Canada to join his regiment and serve in the war, he bought a female black - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) We need to recognise that the work that happens in this country supports the work that is being done - Speech Link
5: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) Some notable names include Winnie, an American black bear deposited at the zoo in 1914 at the start of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) has been since 2010, but we know that something between 5% and 10% of the 9.5 million dogs in this country - Speech Link
2: None The latest figures that I have show that in 2020, with 9.6 million dogs in the country, there were only - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) I hope those issues can be shared more widely across the country. - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) There are around 11 million pet cats across the country, and a quarter of households have them. - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) I thank Lord Black of Brentwood for making the Bill a truly Essex affair by agreeing to take it through - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) I thank Black Rod—who actually knows where Wall Heath is, without any explanation—her staff, the doorkeepers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) We are also the lowest ranked country in the world for breastfeeding. - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) When people see it as a black box, trust dissolves and they start to withdraw their consent. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) Order 2024 - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) In 2020, the APPG on knife crime focused on the impact of youth centre closures across the country and - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) point I want to make is that people often ask questions about racial disproportionality, with young black - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Laming (XB - Life peer) Surely this is unacceptable, and it must cause great concern to the whole country. - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) But the country faces a demographic challenge. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) Sadly, I know from my work with Barnardo’s on its Double Discrimination report that black children are - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, said, black children are also disproportionately represented in - Speech Link