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Commons Chamber
Remote Education and Free School Meals - Mon 18 Jan 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) that school is the best place for children’s learning and wellbeing—but for now, faced with a rising coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) This Government have been engaged in a monumental battle to manage the effects of the coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) Perhaps that is driving the Government’s decision to relax the criteria on children being in schools, - Speech Link
4: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) packages that were sent out for children in place of free school meals, and secondly, on the Government’s instruction - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) I beg to move,That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 3) and (All Tiers) (England - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) Friend to send an instruction to all our superb perinatal workers—from health visitors to mental health - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) are damaging health and wellbeing.”Will the Minister take action on the social inequalities that are driving - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) People were driving over the border to Meadowhall and Drakehouse to do their shopping. - Speech Link
5: Desmond Swayne (CON - New Forest West) The Government are completely in thrall to a lobby driving a policy that has manifestly failed—it has - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) existence of a new variant in those areas, and further analysis showed us that the new variant was driving - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) We are also world-leading in developing a clinically proven drug against coronavirus. - Speech Link
3: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Before, we were perhaps in what you might call a siege— an unpleasant one that was certainly driving - Speech Link
4: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) Anything in terms of instruction, via the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, on discretionary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Procedure and Privileges Committee - Mon 14 Dec 2020
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) previous Motions were moved for the screamingly obvious reason that the country was in the midst of a coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) what will come back from the January meeting of the Procedure and Privileges Committee, unless a clear instruction - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) That was reported as I was driving to your Lordships’ House earlier, so this is a serious situation, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction and Taking Control of Goods) (England) Regulations 2020 - Tue 08 Dec 2020
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) taken unprecedented action to ensure that renters were protected from eviction at the height of the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (CON - Life peer) This validates an instruction given out by the Lord Chancellor in England. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grender (LDEM - Life peer) We are driving more tenants into debt, and that debt is being passed on to the landlords who can least - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Funding for Local Authorities - Tue 24 Nov 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) It cannot be right that, in addition to the double whammy of the coronavirus pandemic and long-term funding - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Councils across the country have been at the forefront of the coronavirus response. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) Home Office had shown a similar degree of enlightenment—but there was no clear legal basis for that instruction - Speech Link
4: Naz Shah (LAB - Bradford West) decade that saw £15 billion cut from local authority budgets has ended with the impact of covid-19 driving - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 17 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Mackay of Clashfern (CON - Life peer) The first time I ever came to the House of Lords was on the instruction of the Medical and Dental Defence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) We can credit the women’s movement as an important part of the forces driving for change in the medical - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) We are thinking about it, of course, and we know it has done a fantastic job with the coronavirus, but - Speech Link
4: None Yes, we have been managing the coronavirus and that will be part of our legacy, but what a tragedy if - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 05 Nov 2020
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) I want to remind the Leader of the House what he said on Monday:“We have to ensure that these new coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) , but exacerbated and made faster because of the coronavirus. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) It is being done, with the support of Opposition Members, in response to the coronavirus crisis. - Speech Link
4: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Government agencies, as I mentioned earlier, are covered by the “work from home if possible” instruction - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 - Thu 22 Oct 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) communicable disease is a good idea if you can possibly do it—so most people will of course obey the instruction - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) The criteria behind the instruction to self-isolate are not transparent and there is no appeal mechanism - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We have been driving this forward through our common frameworks programme, to drive collaboration and - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) choir.In last December’s general election, so-called Workington Man assumed a mythological status as driving - Speech Link
3: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) Parliamentary counsel have carried out that instruction—and that I think is worrying.The role of the - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) It is little surprise that the devolved nations have reacted as they have.In the face of the coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Lord Shinkwin (CON - Life peer) But at a time when coronavirus casts such a dark shadow over so much of our lives, neither should we - Speech Link