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Commons Chamber
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill
Report stage - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) The financial assistance scheme applies to individuals whose pension schemes were unable to meet their - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Those who are eligible are able to claim universal credit, employment and support allowance, personal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Most public transport—shockingly, even new schemes—is not fully accessible; it lacks step access, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) experiments; we have managed to achieve a moratorium on future shared space, but how are the existing schemes - Speech Link
3: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) students like those it employs.We need more companies like these two to operate similar work chance schemes - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) there is a real problem, because we are being told that, alongside financial pressures on existing schemes - Speech Link


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) Gentleman talked about the way in which the bill for all these compensation schemes is mounting. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) Looking at the experience of other compensation schemes—the one that comes to my mind is the Icelandic - Speech Link
3: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) thought was going to come, but it did not, and they were perhaps not able to go back to work or find employment - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) receive around 5% less state pension income than men.The reasons included having spent less time in paid employment - 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
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Unexpected evictions can cause real financial difficulty and interrupt employment and schooling for parents - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) These moves disrupt employment and education, and shatter connection with communities and family support.Indeed - Speech Link
3: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) Most policy has focused on Help to Buy schemes rather than expanding the supply.Ideally, we would want - Speech Link
4: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) The Minister referred to digitisation; well, as a habitué of these schemes in government, I think the - Speech Link
5: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Access to affordable accommodation is a key part of rural employment, and we should remember that 85% - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 15 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) It is therefore even more vital that access to devolved schemes of assistance that are not classed as - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) on national insurance contributions, may still be accessed by migrants, such as contribution-based employment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) successful job outcome, what meaningful proposals do the Government have to reduce the 29% disability employment - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Indeed, in the first quarter of 2024 there were 10.3 million disabled people in employment, which is - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Friend is absolutely committed to disability employment, but can she please outline exactly what she - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) In March last year we appointed Helen Tomlinson as the Government’s first ever menopause employment champion - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Some of the schemes that I mentioned in my earlier answer are available. The hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 14 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) compulsory labour; the effective abolition of child labour; the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment - Speech Link
2: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) That was the issue dominating the previous debate: that the trustees of pension schemes would be left - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and added new grounds, including failure to pay the national minimum wage and offences relating to employment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) The employment tribunal panel composition arrangements are now a responsibility of the Senior President - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) At the end of 2023, the employment tribunal backlog stood at more than 460,000 cases. - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) I agree with the Bishop of Gloucester that community payback schemes are often far more appropriate than - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) As someone who spent more than a decade practising as an employment lawyer, I can tell the hon. - Speech Link
5: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) , with prison employment leads and employment hubs in every resettlement prison. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 14 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) would be treated like other pension schemes? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) and all other schemes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) occupational pension schemes. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) occupational pension schemes. - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We will come on to another group on employment law, but the definition of the exceptions is very narrowly - Speech Link
6: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) and all other pension schemes except unfunded ones? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) and environmental harms.Added to that is the continued reliance on weak auditing and certification schemes - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) It is true of the Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill, which had its - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) on those families and on people who live in poverty, because they have no choice about the kind of employment - Speech Link