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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) in 2010 the appalling maladministration of pension and tax credits that left many people trapped in poverty - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) in absolute poverty than there are today. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) good news on wage growth as people progress through work, since 2010 unemployment has halved, absolute poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) significant economic growth, rising living standards this century—with 1 million more people lifted out of poverty - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) were broadly experienced as degrading and dehumanising, especially for mothers unable to feed their children - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) It is completely unsuitable to have children in hotels for years at a time, when they have to go to school - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) the Home Office has invariably gone for low-hanging fruit—some of the easier cases to accept, such as children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) aspects of housing need and his understanding that dealing with it was an integral part of tackling poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We all know that poverty is the major driver of homelessness. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Children of home owners are over twice as likely to be home owners than children of renters—an issue - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) generation, whether they come here to call Britain their home or have third, fourth or fifth-generation children - Speech Link
2: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) I am proud that my children have that Irish link, even though I do not, and that they can proudly say - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) That means supporting people in need, poverty or distress—particularly, but not exclusively, those of - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) So many of them left because of poverty, as has been alluded to in this debate. - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Nora’s sister and her husband, at St Mary’s Church in Clapham.My parents-in-law brought up their six children - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) delivered a thriving jobs market, which is ultimately the best way to ensure that people are brought out of poverty - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) low incomes who have been struggling for too long”.Alison Garnham, the chief executive of the Child Poverty - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) I said to her, “When you’re teaching these children, how do you know that they’re hungry?” - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Earnings: Mothers and Fathers - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) and women in full-time work aged 30 to 39, which is the average age of parents when they first have children - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, my Question is about the motherhood penalty, which is also a major cause of child poverty. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) My Lords, 90% of single parents are women, and 49% of these families are in poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) Would Labour reverse the Scottish child payment that is taking over 100,000 Scottish children out poverty - Speech Link
2: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) The introduction of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 increased the number of children living in relative poverty - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) More than one in three children growing up in Coventry South are in poverty, with more than 3,000 affected - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) End Child Poverty has estimated that more than 8,000 children are experiencing poverty in Lewisham East - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Since I was elected, absolute child poverty in Newport West—the percentage of children living in households - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Carers: National Strategy - Tue 12 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) What exactly are the Government doing to address the disproportionate risk of poverty among carers? - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) Lords, there are some deep concerns—I have seen a number of things on television recently—about actual children - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Tens of thousands of women have been plunged into poverty through no fault of their own, and many of - Speech Link
2: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) only half a pension if they are widowed.Many of us have taken extended maternity leave to be with our children - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) The poverty that many of them continue to face is also clear. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) There was nothing for the 14.4 million people, including 4.2 million children, who are living in poverty - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) and families living in poverty. - Speech Link