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Grand Committee
Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) It has affected the industry for many years, but it has been further exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) The Minister said that this change would provide 2,400 more tests a month. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) The coronavirus pandemic suspended driver testing for much of last year, which increased the shortage - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) That equates to up to 550 extra tests a week, or a 37% increase in weekly tests, relative to pre-pandemic - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) As I have said, these regulations will free up 36,000 tests per year—550 extra tests per week—for heavy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Transport for London seems to have a campaign of hating the motorist and doing everything it can to make driving - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) To help frontline services to tackle the coronavirus, we have made available approximately £97 billion - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) I refer Members to my chairmanship of the all-party parliamentary group on oral hormone pregnancy tests - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) I beg to move,That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations - Speech Link
2: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) Lateral flow tests had been allowed as part of travel testing. - Speech Link
3: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) We are now back to the confusion—do lateral flow tests work or do they not work? - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) This is the forecasting that has been, in part, driving Government action.In this country, oncology professor - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) available to police and local authorities to tackle specific forms of behaviour that meet the legal tests - Speech Link
2: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) The driving force behind this amendment is Marie McCourt whose daughter Helen McCourt was murdered by - Speech Link
3: None The legislation was hugely successful in driving out violence at football grounds and games. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hogan-Howe (CB - Life peer) I cannot see how it is okay for you to be driving along the M25 at 70 miles per hour, at least, for people - Speech Link
5: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) As the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, has said, we saw during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part two - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) If the offence was, say, a driving offence, I am sure that an SVRO would not be applied for or granted - Speech Link
2: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) been convicted, we can do something to prevent reoffending, which is what I think his amendment is driving - Speech Link
3: None so far as drugs in prison are concerned—I will not take too much time on this—while there are urine tests - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) observation provisions in the Bill are intended to replace the temporary and less extensive powers in the Coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2021 - Tue 09 Nov 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) It has affected the haulage industry for many years, but it has been further exacerbated by the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: None similarly free up driving examiner time, which can be reallocated to more driving tests. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) The logic is that, if you streamline driving tests, this will free up slots for tests, enabling more - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Again, they have no delay in getting licences or tests; it is the bit in the middle. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
HGV Driving Licences - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) This has been further exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic having suspended driver testing for much - Speech Link
2: Sam Tarry (LAB - Ilford South) The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is currently conducting only 3,000 vocational driving tests a - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) Let us not forget that these tests are already being abolished. - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) The instruments will free up driver examination time so that more HGV driving tests can be conducted. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) We are committing £5.9 billion to tackle the NHS backlog of non-emergency tests and procedures, which - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) People are driving themselves up companies and creating wealth, but instead of flattening out taxes, - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) They are the golden thread that tie together all our investments and our futures.The outbreak of coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) The OBR estimates that after we come out of the coronavirus pandemic fully—we hope—our growth rate will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Thu 28 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) in the Budget yesterday that, as we race towards a new and brighter future, the Government will make driving - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The OBR’s own analysis cites migration and trading issues as driving factors of the supply chain issues - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That £20 cut embeds inequality and injustice, yet the proposals from Government keep driving inequality - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They are designed to assist with earlier diagnosis through faster and easier access to diagnostic tests - Speech Link
5: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) but in fact it is the largest support by way of business rates over a period of time, save for the coronavirus - Speech Link