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Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) She said, “I don’t want to do that freshers week and have all that piling up of debt. - Speech Link
2: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) , fashion, digital design, architecture and urban planning, as well as designers working in finance and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Regeneration: Industrial Areas - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) I and my neighbour and good friend Giles Radice, who subsequently came to this House and died last year—I - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Hundreds of new jobs have been created there and many new businesses, new retail space and offices, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) hygiene grab-and-go bags, to provide debt and financial advice, and, through a major grant to the Norfolk - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I have spoken before in this Chamber of my personal pain at having our local growth plans stalled, as - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The most recent local government finance settlement for 2024-25 makes some £64.7 billion available to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Energy Rebates: Highlands and Islands - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Anyone who has engaged in crofting can say how difficult it is over the winter months with, from personal - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) Unless local skills and finance can be mobilised, the areas are unlikely to be first in the queue to - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) and others are in five-figure debt. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) a useful tool for consumers to manage their budgets and for energy suppliers to manage debt. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) of the UK economy, without sparking inflation again; and to get debt falling. - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) frantic search for tax rises and future spending cuts to top up the kitty for personal tax giveaways - Speech Link
3: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) in 2025-26, the percentage of debt to GDP would be higher than it was only five months ago, so debt is - Speech Link
4: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham) , in particular, the personal allowance. - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) They have profited from dodgy personal protective equipment contracts and dodged tax altogether. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement and Budget Report - Wed 06 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) For some people the best way to resolve debt is through a debt relief order, but getting one costs £90 - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan (David Duguid), we will also legislate in the Finance Bill to - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) That means that the average earner in the UK now has the lowest effective personal tax rate since 1975 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) , any sums recovered under section 125 could be directed to pay down the debt. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security (Contributions) (Limits and Thresholds, National Insurance Funds Payments and Extension of Veterans Relief) Regulations 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) debt forecast to reduce. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I was working at the Child Poverty Action Group at the time, and child benefit replaced personal tax - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) HMT’s policy paper of 21 November 2022—Income Tax Personal Allowance and the Basic Rate Limit, and Certain - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, mentioned, consumer finance expert Martin Lewis recently said that, - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) We have nearly doubled the personal allowance since 2010, and it is 30% higher in real terms. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) While he is absolutely right on the legal side, there is an issue about the personal duty of candour - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) My noble friend Lady Featherstone and the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, added their accounts of personal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) They make clear that POL fails to believe certain claims about hardship, personal injury, harassment - Speech Link
4: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab - Life peer) Boon was a fantasist who was £28,000 in debt, and he coerced Laura into putting her income into his bank - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) What it threw up to me was that, in the intervention of state Governments and charities—and personal - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) example, increase vulnerability: the two-child limit on income-related benefit, the cap on benefits, debt - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) This regular tragedy reminds us of the importance of personal welfare, which includes the certainty we - Speech Link
4: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) I am making all this up, but I do not think it is impossible to finance that sort of thing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Economy - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Debt is set to surpass £3 trillion for the first time ever. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Noble Lords will discuss them with me shortly, as we debate the Finance Bill. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Personal allowances have gone up by 30% in real terms than in 2010. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) If one were to exclude Bank of England debt, it will fall in the final year, and public sector net borrowing - Speech Link