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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - Fri 24 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Basically, Homes for Life enables someone who is over 60 to sell their home on the open market, then - Speech Link
2: None the point that the transfer of marriage value overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest leaseholders in society - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) The original social justification for enfranchisement allowed the recovery of market value and an equitable - Speech Link
4: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) charges against the Post Office, why would we remove that tactic from another set of people in our society - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Higher Education (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Tue 21 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) There are people in any society—certainly in our society—who have never been to university, who are poor - Speech Link
2: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) I also very much agree with the recommendations on quality assurance. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) worked in this field in great detail over recent years, to try to ensure that government policy on the equitable - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) It ensured that she got a year’s extension and was paid some compensation. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Is she satisfied with the quality assurance agency now also being the regulator? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) Could she help me on two matters that the Law Society has raised? - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) The Minister has talked of only 600 prisoners being affected by this policy, and I welcome her assurance - Speech Link
3: None By treating them all as an aggravating factor, we can ensure equitable treatment under the law for those - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) There is no assurance that I can see that prisoners would receive appropriate training or rehabilitation - Speech Link
5: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Friend is seeking to give me an assurance from the Dispatch Box, but it is perhaps not quite as fulsome - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None However, while consumers, under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, have the right to request compensation - Speech Link
2: None However, where fines, penalties or compensation payments are imposed on the landlord because of their - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) order to monitor progress on reducing costs passed on to leaseholders”.I am pleased to say that the Law Society - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) recover that money and who would become a director in those circumstances if they did not have that assurance - Speech Link
5: None “If the measure of a civilised society is the way it treats its vulnerable citizens then our investigation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) That is a helpful assurance, which I accept, and I think he has already given assurance of similar collaboration - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) That forces them to pay a substantial deposit at a point in their life when they already have significant - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Friend’s amendment, I do not agree that landlords should be made to pay compensation to tenants when - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.This Bill is an opportunity for us to improve the life - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None in any event it is not necessarily the case that the restriction on development should last for the life - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) residents have no voice at all in this significant change to their environment and, possibly, their life - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) Even the Law Society—the “leftie lawyers”, as they are often referred to, which is not a phrase that - Speech Link
4: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Well, just today, the Society of Pension Professionals and its chair have said that this is exaggerated - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) At the end of my remarks, I asked whether my noble friend would be good enough to get the necessary assurance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Con - Life peer) We are diversifying the ancestry of genomes to improve equitable outcomes for patients; validating long-read - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) As Nigel Edwards of the Nuffield Trust has said, we have a culture of checking, assurance, performance - Speech Link
3: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) indeed a prosperous society while we are at it. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I love the system and what it does for our society. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) loans for people who continue to work in the NHS rather than leaving it—and the importance of no-blame compensation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) That includes the administration and payment of armed forces pensions and compensation, the provision - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Friend that assurance. I pay tribute to him and to our hon. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) than their equivalents in civil society, but that is not the case for everyone. - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Friend can absolutely have that assurance. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) pensions for the armed forces overall, Mr Speaker, you will know, as I do as a beneficiary, that they are equitable - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is a word often used in society, but reconciliation is what we want here. - Speech Link
2: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) We live as a society, and a sin against one is a sin against all. - Speech Link
3: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) This constituent, who was also affected by the collapse of Equitable Life, found herself unable to secure - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I can indeed give that assurance. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) future in which trade contributes not only to economic prosperity but to a fairer, greener and more equitable - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) consistent with the maintenance of UK statutory protections in relation to animal and plant health and life - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) in our other free trade agreements that exempts measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) could mean that the courts might set aside any claims for suspension of the procedure or even for the compensation - Speech Link