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Lords Chamber
Parents: Separation - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) Children who experience it are significantly more prone to anxiety and depression. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) This is about children. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) Surely the best interests and well-being of children are paramount. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) It is a very good way of informing children, by other children who have been through the process.This - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Fourthly, we must focus on the health of our children, ensuring that healthy habits are ingrained from - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) broader picture: we do not look at the lifestyle issues and diets that cause the conditions or the poverty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) Before the year 2000, there were no known cases of children in the UK with type 2 diabetes. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) overregulation, which can result in silo working, and a full recognition that deep-rooted issues of poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Part 1 of the Children and Families Act was meant to“speed up the adoption process and enable more children - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) The growing number of children entering care is concerning, not least because children who grow up in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) down for non- unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, from 27,950 children going into the care system - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) not commit to our triple lock, and that hundreds of thousands more pensioners were living in absolute poverty - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) more treatments delivered in the last year alone, with an additional 1.7 million adults and 800,000 children - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Following the publication of the Cass review and its damning conclusion that children were given unscientific - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) When I was Minister for Women and Equalities, I set up the first inquiry looking at why so many children - Speech Link
5: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) She said that she will accept an amendment to apply the legislation just to children at Scaraway Nursery - 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) time and the second lockdown.Once we knew the profile of the disease, we knew that we were damaging children - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Spring Budget 2024: Welsh Economy - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) replacing the European money previously distributed specifically to lift the poorest communities out of poverty - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) the Government Benches stood on manifesto commitments not to raise taxes; to reduce debt; to reduce poverty - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) The number of people living in absolute poverty is expected to increase this year to 12 million, with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) benefit allowances are important, especially helping parents who want to get into work and have their children - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Friend is making some excellent points about fuel poverty. - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) or extreme fuel poverty. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) Child benefit is meant to help households with the extra costs of having children. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) with almost half a million families gaining an average of £1,260 towards the cost of raising their children - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) We do not give away food and we do not require people to be living in poverty to access it. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) My goodness me: as children in the ’60s with a very capable family, we were examples of using everything - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) We must address the underlying causes of food poverty and over-production. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) People in this country struggle with food security and are living in food poverty. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Skills and Careers - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) All the children put their hands in the air, but not very many MPs or Lords Members did.Digital skills - Speech Link
2: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) To create competent legislation, we need to be involved and to understand the risks.The children from - Speech Link
3: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) Children—both girls and boys—are becoming much more confident. - Speech Link
4: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) Members that those young children were building robots that I could not build. - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) Clearly, poverty is also a barrier to digital literacy.It is important that the Government ensure that - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) John Lyon’s Charity exists to fund children and young people’s services, particularly in nine north and - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The Government’s poverty of ambition has real implications for leaseholders being routinely gouged by - Speech Link