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Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, we have a record number of children in poverty, of whom two-thirds are considered to be in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) My Lords, the fact that nearly one in three children in the UK are living in relative poverty is the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) , does the Minister accept that the Government’s policies are now pushing children into poverty? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I wonder whether the percentage of children in absolute poverty in this country is higher or - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) that if they cannot justify the Bill to themselves, they should at least try to justify it to their children - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) emergency programme to insulate all British homes by 2030, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) In Canada, they appear to be associated with stories about mass graves of native children. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Debts have been passed down to children from one generation to another, and workers are abused at the - Speech Link
3: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) He went on to say:“My wife and our four children fled to India two weeks ago across the Indian-Myanmar - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Janet, mother to four children, from Plateau State, said:“I found my husband had been killed. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Many have been reduced to poverty after being robbed of tens of thousands of pounds of pension, and that - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) That is why under this Government there are 200,000 fewer pensioners in poverty, after housing costs, - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Since the ombudsman’s report, over 100 have passed away, and many continue to live in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) responsibilities—for providing the best kind of childcare for their grandchildren, and allowing their children - Speech Link
5: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The Secretary of State says that there are 200,000 fewer pensioners in poverty, but 270,000 WASPI women - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) That same data tells us that, between 2010 and last year, 19% of children lived in households with either - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) Indeed, they feel that their children are discriminated against versus what children in towns and cities - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) What concerns does he have about the fact that the poverty of local government sometimes gets in the - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) Will the Minister finally listen to disabled people, parents, children and local councils who overwhelmingly - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) of the Tory party, as she herself claims; we have had no answer on the startling increase in child poverty - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Levelling Up, Housing and Communities looks into this case, so that residents do not fall into in-work poverty - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Is the Leader of the House aware that the biggest killer of children and young people worldwide is being - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) In the meantime, hundreds of people are being evicted through section 21 notices, and families and children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) spending of councils with social care responsibilities was spent on social care of both adults and children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) higher and further education, as well as culture—which aims to mitigate the impacts of growing up in poverty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) That increases poverty and ill health, which puts more pressure on councils to provide services such - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) Ideologies confuse our present through the indoctrination of our children with gender questioning, and - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) In a place like India, even though there are villages with levels of unimaginable poverty, they are not - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) ; let us hope that this year we have enough Easter eggs for all the children who come out, because it - Speech Link


Written Statements
Households Below Average Income: Statistics Release - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Further publications in today’s release are: “Income Dynamics”, “Pensioners’ Income Series”, “Children - Speech Link