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Westminster Hall
Smartphones and Social Media: Children - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) The Government have less than a year left in office, but if we could pass the Coronavirus Act 2020 in - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Michaela, one of the finest schools in the country, has very strict rules. - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) Secondly, when can we implement a proper ban on phones in schools? - Speech Link
4: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) I wrote about banning smartphones in schools in the Stroud News & Journal. - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) We want to put many more specialist mental health professionals into schools. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Preventable Sight Loss - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) That has more than doubled from around 25% before the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) annual eye test should be pushed as forcibly as a dental check-up, and that the message should start in schools - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Single-use Plastics - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) the UK public to be more concerned about the threat to society posed by plastic pollution than the coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) this should have happened five years ago, but I gently say that in those five years we have had the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) changes will give tenants the opportunity to put down roots in their communities, their children in local schools - Speech Link


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: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) recent example being Culture Start in Sunderland —a city-based partnership spanning social housing, schools - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This is why the Spring Statement committed £105 million towards a wave of 15 new special free schools - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) He was also clear that tutoring should be best managed and led by schools. - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) provided invaluable support, particularly for children whose education was impacted during the global coronavirus - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Just a few months ago, the then Schools Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) We will prioritise our children, schools and families once again. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Charities: National Minimum Wage - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We saw that very clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, when we pledged £750 million to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) My Lords, independent schools are not among the very smallest charities in our country but they are pretty - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) My noble friend speaks with great authority as the president of the Independent Schools Association, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) This had a worse psychological effect than the coronavirus on the general population.Some interim measures - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is important for us all to know how much is being taught in primary and secondary schools about the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, asked a question about children in schools. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Despite that, childhood obesity rates in Bexley have worsened following the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) We also need to tackle takeaways near secondary schools, which Wandsworth Council is starting to do, - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Schools will have a role and responsibility within that, which is why our fully funded breakfast clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) understand it, the only tax initiatives announced by Labour are to increase taxation, such as VAT on schools - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I am not talking just about the NHS: schools face record deficits, local governments are slashing essentials - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic was made possible through the powerful - Speech Link