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Lords Chamber
Family Reunion Visas: Gaza - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) opening question, my noble friend Lord Dubs specifically used the word “temporary”, and then prayed in aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) He was my first boss; he paid me £12 a week—I was overpaid. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) First, the Government have had five years, since they first made the commitment to abolish section 21 - Speech Link
2: None been caused—this is something the Government have to take on board—through the withdrawal of legal aid - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Legal aid lawyers in my constituency who work in the courts speak of the chaos, the crumbling infrastructure - Speech Link
4: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
5: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
6: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
7: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
8: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
9: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
10: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
11: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
12: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
13: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
14: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
15: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
16: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
17: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
18: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
19: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
20: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
21: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
22: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
23: None Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This week we have committed an extra £500 million of military aid to Ukraine for this year, bringing - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) welcome in it and more widely today, with the US Congress finally passing the Bill for more military aid - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) First, I assure the hon. - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We have just made our seventh or eighth drop of food aid into Gaza, using the RAF. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I also thank them for committing an extra £500 million of aid for Ukraine, which is important. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) First, the Government announced that they were more than doubling the threshold to £38,700 by spring - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) That is the first question I would like him to consider. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) First, I want to thank my hon. - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) He prays in aid public opinion, but what research have the Government done on the proposals? - Speech Link
5: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The first increase, to £29,000, came into force on 11 April. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) responses at that stage and for his kindness in meeting me and representatives of Refuge and Women’s Aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) decisions about their rights”.That is all the more true, given the near total destruction of legal aid - Speech Link
3: None Lastly, I turn to the first amendment—an occasion where the last should be first, but the first is not - Speech Link
4: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Con - Life peer) First, is it necessary? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Childcare Entitlements - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the successful first stage of the largest ever - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) The Department’s recently published pulse survey, which the Minister is quoting in aid, found that two - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) The truth is that while this Conservative Government have just successfully delivered the first stage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) effective food poverty strategy that can eliminate the need for food banks in these islands by 2030.First - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Government rejected the idea on the proviso that voluntary efforts within the food industry should first - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) The first is that “unlawful” is just not good enough. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) and all of us expect, in which children grow up, leave home and, as our strength wanes, come to our aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) When I first saw this proposal for mass trawling of bank accounts, I have to say that the first thought - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) an additional 74,000 prosecution cases, 2,500 custodial sentences and 23,000 applications for legal aid - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The first one is relatively straightforward. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) This was in an amendment to the Health and Care Act 2022, which declared, for the first time, a duty - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Enfield, Southgate) I have been trying to bang the drum for North London Hospice since I was first elected, and although - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) I pray in aid the excellent submissions and remarks made by right hon. and hon. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) I was proud to be one of the runners yesterday in the London marathon in her memory and in aid of that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sudan: Government Response - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) The authors of the report say:“Just twenty years after the first genocide…the same perpetrators are committing - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I first visited Darfur in 2005, and again in 2006 with the Foreign Secretary. - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) We heard of 5 million people on the brink of famine, of aid convoys being held at gunpoint, of aid being - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) On her first point, she is right that conflicts elsewhere in the world—particularly in Ukraine and Gaza—have - Speech Link
5: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) First, given the circumstances people are having to live in, why is it taking over a year for many applications - Speech Link