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Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) He had helped 3,000 children escape bonded labour. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Minority community members get into a cycle of illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, and early and often - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) progress is now in doubt, with 40% of that population—95 million people—living below the poverty line - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) I have just seen the figures out earlier this month, showing a rise of 21,000 children now living in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) During our short lifetimes, we have seen inequality grow and poverty deepen.Despite our protests, we - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) Another mum said, “When you look at other children, they are able to eat proper meals and things like - Speech Link
4: Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (LD - Life peer) It is people in flats with children who deserve gardens. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Homes for all that release the constraints of poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) children who will never know it. - Speech Link
2: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) His was a life devoted to helping those in poverty, especially children. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will also know that there are hundreds of thousands fewer children living in absolute poverty, and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Liver Disease and Liver Cancer - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) disease and liver cancer continue to be falsely labelled as self-inflicted, despite being linked to poverty - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) issue in the broadest sense, have introduced policies such as the Scottish child payment, which anti-poverty - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) When one in six children are obese by the time they finish primary school and one in four children with - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) We know that people—both adults and children—are consuming too many calories. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Educational Trips and Exchanges - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) derives from the fact that, year after year, I spent the summers travelling in Europe with both my children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) career and, at Hartridge High School in Newport, a challenging demographic of prior low attainment and poverty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) language aficionados and advocates, I hesitate to say this, but the evidence suggests that, for some children - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon Central) Northern Ireland two weeks ago, and we visited Forge Integrated Primary School and met lots of very fine children - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) He was a tireless campaigner against poverty and a champion for his constituents.Mr Speaker, I know that - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) chairman Steve Gibson describes the Mayor of Tees Valley as having given away the future of the region’s children - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) He chaired an all-party parliamentary inquiry 10 years ago on food poverty, and food bank use has increased - Speech Link
5: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) The effect of all that is that 1.1 million fewer people are living in absolute poverty than when the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) A significant number live on or near the poverty line and struggle to make ends meet. - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) It is also about children at school: will those children be able to get to the same school if they are - Speech Link
3: None Some 1.8 million renter households in this country include children. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) A staggering quarter of renting households are living in fuel poverty today, so urgent action is essential - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) clarify a number of things.It is true that there are some people who own lease- hold flats who are not poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) receives enables it to be one of the principal providers of youth services to some of London’s most needy children - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) In the US, it is 125% of federal poverty guidelines, which means in real terms that it is pretty similar - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Many parents reported that their children had become clingy and dependent on one parent; children often - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) He currently lives here with his non-British wife and two children. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) He had two teenaged children and sought to bring them here; eventually he hoped that his children would - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) He talked of the impact on children, which I see regularly at my constituency surgeries in children who - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) she accept the overwhelming evidence that current levels of ill health reflect 14 years of escalating poverty - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Gentleman finds it easy to call our children short and fat, but he shies away from welfare reform, calling - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We are also bringing in the Smile4Life programme for children, because prevention must be a critical - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) the realities of the market and the cynicism of the companies behind it, and help to ensure that our children - Speech Link
5: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid could save many thousands of children from spina bifida - Speech Link