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

Mentions:
1: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) Basically, the borrowing rates on government debt are high right now because again and again there have - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) We are the fastest-growing European G7 economy and, from 2025 to 2028, our debt will come down as a huge - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I say to the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, who was talking about growth and debt reduction: go back and look - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Today we continue to restate our commitment to reform and modernise the local government finance settlement - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) We owe them a debt of gratitude. - Speech Link
3: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) Select Committee, so I thank him for the way in which he has approached this matter on a personal basis.The - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) we owe those councillors a huge debt of thanks as fellow elected politicians. - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I commend the settlement to the House.Question put and agreed to.Resolved,That the Local Government Finance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 06 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) It begs the question why Labour did not vote in favour of the Finance Bill last night, which included - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) nearly a million more struggling pensioners will start paying income tax, because of the freeze in personal - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) debt is approaching £3 billion. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Ofgem continues to monitor the levels of energy debt to ensure that consumers are protected. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Potential Extension - Tue 06 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) Furthermore, Student Finance England has already paid student support for the 2022-23 academic year to - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) access to student finance loans for the duration of any university course on which they are accepted - Speech Link
3: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Gentleman for his deeply emotional and personal contribution, which highlights the real scale of compassion - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) debt of gratitude to President Zelensky and the bravery and resilience of the Ukrainian people in the - Speech Link
5: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) the very personal stories that underpin it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) local government finance reports.Thursday 8 February—General debate on National HIV Testing Week, followed - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) a crippling debt burden of more than 100% of GDP, just for starters.However, the Leader of the House - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He is looking at what bridging finance could be made available to facilitate matters, and has also brought - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) services for young people’s mental wellbeing and personal development? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) increased threats to their personal safety on online platforms.With several colleagues, I was a target - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) finance, supplies Hezbollah in Lebanon with finance and weapons, supplies Hamas in Gaza with aid, arms - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) , especially from Afghanistan, are subject to forced labour and debt bondage.The reality is that some - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) , and respects international law and norms. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Financial Education - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) of children worry about money and their personal finances. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) finance not as a god but as a servant of God’s, humanity’s and creation’s good. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) My personal view is that we do not have that, and that that is at the heart of the problem. - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) If the Committee will indulge me, I have personal experience of examples of this in North East Derbyshire - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) finance those costs. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Lawton, the rentcharge is redeemed or the underlying debt cleared. - Speech Link
5: None would have to seek to recover any rentcharge arrears like anyone else seeking to recover a contractual debt - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Somerset Council: Funding and Governance - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Marcus Fysh (Con - Yeovil) The debt was of some £350 million or more. - Speech Link
2: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) Friend agree that the big trick with this will be our working together, regardless of our personal views - Speech Link
3: Marcus Fysh (Con - Yeovil) are there for business is the way forward—that is the way to finance any local authority.There can be - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of UK Capital Markets - Tue 30 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alun Cairns (Con - Vale of Glamorgan) I am making is that capital markets matter to us all and extend well beyond the world of finance. - Speech Link
2: Alun Cairns (Con - Vale of Glamorgan) We should continue the momentum to review the access for early stage business finance, to expand the - Speech Link