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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


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) 6 million households in the UK will be in fuel poverty. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is right to highlight fuel poverty. - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) , with 36% in fuel poverty according to the most recent data. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) He mentioned what it is like to live in fuel poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Larger families with children are particularly vulnerable to this form of injustice. - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Children living in workless households were more than six times more likely to be in absolute poverty - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) They are increasingly vulnerable to falling into poverty and financial difficulties. - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) I have spoken about carer’s allowance being a poverty payment in need of fundamental reform. - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Most importantly, however, around 34% of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance are still in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) essential support to their loved ones.A Labour Government will transform social care for older people, children - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) it is a task that is out of season with the life that most of us live and all of us expect, in which children - Speech Link
2: None Nesta will shortly publish a report showing that one in four households with children that are eligible - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) unsuccessful, to the very sensible set of recommendations made by my noble friend Lady Sherlock.The Child Poverty - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) regulator to go into print is extremely unusual.Of course, we also have Big Brother Watch and the Child Poverty - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I wish to highlight the importance of palliative care for children and the amazing support that some - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) Part of that is ensuring properly funded hospice services, whether for adults or for children. - Speech Link
3: Edward Timpson (Con - Eddisbury) some people face greater barriers in accessing palliative care, including those who live alone, in poverty - Speech Link
4: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Alarmingly, for children, that figure is four fifths. - Speech Link
5: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) It supports children and young people up to the age of 21, including the youngest babies who need its - Speech Link