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Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) By obliging civil servants to act on a basis they know to be false, the Bill would legitimise and institutionalise - Speech Link
2: Lord McDonald of Salford (XB - Life peer) This policy has little chance of success.When considering any new policy, civil servants always ask the - Speech Link
3: Lord Blackwell (Con - Life peer) smuggle them in.Thirdly, while many in this House have argued that Rwanda may not be an attractive location - Speech Link
4: Lord Wilson of Dinton (XB - Life peer) servants not to comply with international law? - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) servants under the Civil Service Code to deliver that decision. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nuclear Defence Infrastructure: Parliamentary Scrutiny - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) Dominic Cummings: that he certainly has his own well-publicised agenda when it comes to issues with the civil - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) defence nuclear infrastructure across these islands; and secondly, the decision-making process in the civil - Speech Link
3: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) Alternatively, those civil servants themselves should address them directly.Let me bring my remarks to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Parliament setting out—(a) the number of individuals relocated under the Rwanda Treaty,(b) the current location - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) At the end of the day, this is not about civil servants; it is about Ministers and the law. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dines (Con - Derbyshire Dales) Often, they are academics, civil servants or even politicians. - Speech Link
4: None service code to require civil servants to ignore interim measures from the Court. - Speech Link
5: None As the Cabinet Office has confirmed, it is the responsibility of civil servants, under the civil service - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mid Devon Council: Financial Settlement - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) They are seen as civil servants. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Budget, the Government have announced seven of the eight English investment zones and confirmed the location - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Civil servants are known for being good at concealing their private feelings about more challenging Ministers - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) We are all mindful of the need to control public finances and slim the civil service, but can my right - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) hundred people—less than 1% of those claiming asylum last year—and has become a proxy for the deep civil - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) illustrates the legislative supremacy of the UK Parliament through an imaginary potential Act: the Location - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) And does he accept that this is just complete civil war in the Conservative party? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pedicabs (London) Bill [HL] - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) definitely not the place to decide the adequacy of regulations that might, for example, stipulate the location - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) With great respect to civil servants in the Department for Transport, it is also ridiculous that they - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) regulations, as well as holding responsibility for matters such as setting licence fees and imposing civil - Speech Link
4: None is for Londoners to decide for themselves—but I imagine they would include reference to the charging location - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The power to impose civil penalties through pedicab regulations is explicitly tied to offences under - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Town Centre Safety - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) course working for their employer, but beyond what it might say on their name tag, they are public servants - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) They are public servants who are exposed to the public. - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) accommodation is yet to be delivered.The police have said that between January and May 2022 that one location - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) more the Government can do on the productivity and efficiency of public services, starting with the Civil - Speech Link
2: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) servants are still working from home in vast numbers—even as productivity drops and TV daytime figures - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) and we have a golden opportunity to see a repatriation of UK company captives and to be a competitive location - Speech Link
4: Lord Harrington of Watford (Con - Life peer) Each relevant department would have a Minister and a senior member of the Civil Service, part of whose - Speech Link
5: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) That country had a ruinous civil war that ended only in 1953, but its gross domestic product per capita - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) ) to make statutory instruments to amend the subordinate legislation which places conditions on the location - Speech Link
2: Lord Livingston of Parkhead (Con - Life peer) To get such a good agreement is a great credit to the Department for Business and Trade and to the civil - Speech Link
3: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Like many civil society organisations, environmental groups and trade unions, I also have concerns over - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) servants and officials who have been so hard working in this process. - Speech Link