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Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Glasgow City Council spent £2.5 million of taxpayers’ money fighting equal pay claims by female council workers - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) To add insult to injury my husband is 8 months older than me and he received his pension 14 months before - Speech Link
3: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) affected by unequal and low pay at work, pregnancy discrimination, discrimination against part-time workers - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) Again, I believe that this is discriminatory, and I ask the Minister to look into it.Part-time workers - Speech Link
5: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) There was the expectation that if they fell pregnant, they were to leave their employment and give up - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Unexpected evictions can cause real financial difficulty and interrupt employment and schooling for parents - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Bill, I note the points made by the CLA that carving out an exemption for agricultural and forestry workers - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Government have largely accepted that it is a problem: that is, the housing of agricultural and other workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) : sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder)• section 39 (care workers: causing or inciting - Speech Link
2: Greg Clark (Con - Tunbridge Wells) For context, Fuller was an electrician whose employment by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) It is older people who are affected and it is worth recognising that this is a real problem.The Department - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) good job of helping people find and progress in work in her area, driving the recruitment of seasonal workers - Speech Link
2: James Morris (Con - Halesowen and Rowley Regis) What plans he has to increase levels of employment. - Speech Link
3: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) We have near record levels of employment. - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) The state pension provides the foundation of support for older people. - Speech Link
5: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) Older people should be able to retire in comfort and dignity, which is why this Government created the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The pit provided full employment for all ages and abilities. - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The Select Committee report on the mine- workers’ pension scheme offers a road map for retaining the - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Average earnings for workers in former coalfield areas are 7% below the national average. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) For example, the city-centric factor that I mentioned is backed up by the report’s findings that more older - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) She is a NEET—not in education, employment or training. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) On the other hand, only 11% of UK workers have advanced digital skills. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) contemplation, which our more modern, narrower understanding of “skill” does not seem so much to contain.This older - Speech Link
4: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Government policy has placed great importance on front-skilling the school pupils while neglecting their older - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) The enrolment data for older-style qualifications cannot be directly compared with T-levels, which are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 08 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) All workers can now earn £1,000 a month before paying any tax, due to the significant increases to the - Speech Link
2: None Some of that the inevitable consequence of lockdown, which led to older people who were working for themselves - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) benefiting higher-rate taxpayers.The Government have shown that we are also committed to ensuring that older - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) I wish he had greater optimism and enthusiasm, and could support the UK economy and the workers to a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Trade Performance - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None The most recent OECD data show that our employment rate is higher than that of the US, France and Italy - Speech Link
2: None about how they are coping with problems in the jobs market, as societies from Germany to Japan get older - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) That is where our people work: 80% of our employment is in services; 80% of our exports are in services - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pension Schemes - Thu 02 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) If someone in employment is unhappy with the money they get for the work they do, they can look around - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) We need much more of that among other gig economy workers. - Speech Link
3: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) ; gas and electricity bills have rocketed; mortgages and rents have gone through the roof, and more older - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) children and young people with special educational needs should be prepared for adulthood, including employment - Speech Link
2: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) The solution can often be in the existing workforce, but older workers can be reluctant to take up apprenticeships - Speech Link