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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) We saw this during the coronavirus pandemic, when local authorities rose to the challenge of distributing - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I guess their attitude could be summed up as: if a job is worth doing, it is for the public sector to - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) replaced, except by these odd little pots of money that can be applied for and go somewhere—but, in the scheme - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Finally, in Blackpool, the central regeneration scheme is scheduled to get under way, following planning - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tutoring Provision - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) provided invaluable support, particularly for children whose education was impacted during the global coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) issue.The Government set up the national tutoring programme in England in response to the impact of the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Stock-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke, I can build every shiny building going and bring in every new job - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) It all goes to show the power of the scheme. - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Member’s wish to talk about the challenge in recruitment and retention. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) the European Co-operative Society (Involvement of Employees) Regulations 2006 and the Working Time (Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) staffing crisis, such a change to the recording of daily working hours poses significant risk to staff retention - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston has done an admirable job in deconstructing the entirety - Speech Link
4: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) uncharitable, given that a number of us have raised the impact on employers of the complexity of the scheme - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of the NHS - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) The general working terms and conditions, whether that is work-life balance, job flexibility or pension - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) David is a deer farmer, and he needs to be mobile to do his job. He needs a knee replacement. - Speech Link
3: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) The future of our NHS hinges on staff recruitment and retention. - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) The development of coronavirus vaccines shows us how industrial policy can work, with the state playing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flying Schools - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) loan guarantees; support for exporters; the Bank of England’s covid corporate financing facility; the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) I have already talked about one scheme that has a similar approach—not a loan scheme, but an apprenticeship - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) clear that in order for this to be rushed through, it must undertake a governance review and publish a scheme - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) I would like to think that enough expertise will be there to do the job properly. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) That is the job of the local police. Therefore, there is no crossover in that way”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) They have suffered an impact on the recruitment and retention of councillors, and barriers have been - Speech Link
5: None This new Clause would add parish councils to the list of local authorities in England which may have a scheme - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Non-Domestic Rating Bill
Committee stage - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) The Government have a scheme—the heat network efficiency scheme—which gives grant funding to communal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) and the new mandatory scheme. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) caprice to the detriment, in this instance, of a ratepayer.I shall deal with Amendments 23 to 26 as a job - Speech Link
4: None business rates income collected and retained by individual local authorities under the business rates retention - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None Amendment 440ZB sets out important restrictions on the retention, sharing and publication of information - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) That is their job: we set a framework and they try to make the businesses successful. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stunell (LDEM - Life peer) No voice was raised that this was the wrong model, still less that it was unfit for the essential job - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) It is a good job I am speaking after the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chelmsford, because it - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Again, the British Business Bank has noted:“After the end of the coronavirus loans facility in March - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 17 May 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None health and animal welfare during certain serious disruptions of Member States’ control systems due to coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (CON - Life peer) I thought it was the job of the Civil Service to obey the instructions of Ministers. - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) These are people who do a job, and to roll them up and call them a blob is deeply offensive and against - Speech Link
4: None This is the job of Ministers, of Members of this and the other place. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) As regards the placing of penalties upon those who are not getting on with the job by refusing future - Speech Link
2: None The phenomenon of residential complaints about music and other noise resources, exasperated by the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) and increase the number of routes into the profession, there remain difficulties in recruitment and retention - Speech Link
4: None The scheme will recognise the positive action of responsible developers. - Speech Link
5: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) package of enforcement measures is what the profession identified would most help it carry out its job - Speech Link