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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) an incentive, and it may be necessary to give employers in the public sector an incentive or an instruction - Speech Link
2: None During the pandemic, for example, creative freelancers were initially left out of the coronavirus job - Speech Link
3: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, talked about having a freelance commissioner for advocacy and driving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None phenomenon of residential complaints about music and other noise resources, exasperated by the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bishops - Bishops) Developing new confidence in the construction industry and driving up its standards will also help to - Speech Link
3: None there—mercifully there were none and, I gather, no injuries—would have been far more likely had the “stay put” instruction - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) with a work notice, or(c) to instruct a member not to comply with a work notice, or to revoke any instruction - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) During the passage of the Coronavirus Act 2020 it was perfectly reasonable to have Henry VIII powers. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) they do is phenomenal—are never defeated by time, but they are sometimes defeated by political instruction - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) it anymore.Instead of electing to sit down and engage in good faith about the real issues that are driving - Speech Link
5: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) I rise to speak to amendments 78, 95 and 96 in my name, which focus on the instruction of people to work - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), at whose instruction I started doing it. - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) This is called breadcrumbing: driving traffic and audiences from mainstream platforms to smaller platforms—which - Speech Link
3: Marcus Fysh (CON - Yeovil) They are driving people down tribal rabbit holes to the point where they cannot talk to each other or - Speech Link
4: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) We are protecting free speech while putting adults in the driving seat of their own online experience - Speech Link
5: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) that, but we have to do more.I want to give a couple of examples in the few minutes I have of what coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries Strategy - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) human well-being and mental health.Creative industries are also commonly recognised as one of the driving - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) How can that be a defensible position if those bodies are in fact acting under instruction? - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) Gaping holes in the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s coronavirus support schemes left creative freelancers - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) levelling-up for culture places were more than doubled.The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, asked about the instruction - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Her Late Majesty the Queen - Sat 10 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) Was that an instruction to brush her hand with my hand? With my sleeve? Or with a handkerchief?” - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) As a country we looked to her for reassurance and, most recently, in the coronavirus lockdowns. - Speech Link
3: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) She loved Scotland the most of any country and was at her happiest when driving around in the lashing - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) It is a photograph of her in a car driving towards the ICI Wilton site on a warm summer day in June 1956 - Speech Link
5: Adam Afriyie (CON - Windsor) If they were strolling in Windsor Great park, they would inevitably bump into the Queen walking, driving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Norwood Green (LAB - Life peer) , equal opportunity for impoverished children, education for women, and universal and practical instruction - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) say that in a pandemic mistakes will happen, but because there had not been a framework in the Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) parents must sit, and with a clear scheme of delegation to ensure the local governing body is in the driving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard _ Part 1 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) forward the Domestic Abuse Act, and one in five people are harmed by other people’s drinking.As for driving - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) As the noble Lord described, prior to the coronavirus pandemic there were some 18 million GP appointments - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) consider the draft legislation, the Minister will be in charge and will be seen by the public to be driving - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) definition or scope behind the language in the draft Bill attached to the Secretary of State’s instruction - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Co-operatives and Mutual Societies - Tue 14 Dec 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) way to other Members, but I will say that at a time like this, when we need to recover to from coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) our society that should be fostered in everyone’s interests, particularly as we come back from coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Being a Co-operative MP is not just a label; it is an instruction to campaign for mutuals, fairness, - Speech Link
4: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) They are not just extra words on the electoral ballot; it is an instruction for fairness and equality - Speech Link
5: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) services.I want to spend a moment on building societies, because they are key to unlocking opportunity and driving - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Last year, when things looked pretty tough, we took on quite a significant coronavirus business interruption - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It makes no sense to me that, if I want to apply for a driving licence or a passport to do my self-assessment - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) She gave very good examples of the hoops we have to go through to do things such as getting a driving - Speech Link