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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) End Child Poverty has estimated that more than 8,000 children are experiencing poverty in Lewisham East - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) tougher sanctions regime that was introduced has backfired, with more people receiving sickness and disability - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) How did I heat the food to feed her? - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) banks and food bank usage. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) spending, with more than half struggling to pay essential bills and one in four struggling to afford food - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) That has been exacerbated by the cost of living crisis, with soaring food and energy prices, rising interest - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) crisis, and the Government’s failure to get a grip on the situation has led to rampant inflation and food - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) People with a severe disability, carers and those who are responsible for a child or young person who - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) poverty”, I would have said that they were bonkers. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Amos (Lab - Life peer) They identify issues around life expectancy, premature death and disability, productivity losses, the - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) In addition, Carers UK has found that 59% of people caring for someone with a disability are women. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) Her most recent work, on food poverty, which she did not have time to mention today, demonstrates that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) 50s are returning to work.However, the rise in the number of people out of work due to ill health and disability - Speech Link
2: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) and their families had at least some food on the table. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) The North East Child Poverty Commission found that the proportion of north-east children in poverty who - Speech Link
4: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Over the next five years, 600,000 more people will be on sickness and disability benefit, which will - Speech Link
5: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) What does he say to those young people who cannot work because of disability or ill health? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Regeneration: Industrial Areas - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) I made a speech here two weeks ago when I talked about the latest report on child poverty from the region - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Go and visit and taste the quality of the food at Ponti’s restaurant—the first outside London. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We know that, across the UK, we have a major problem with disability and chronic illnesses. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Child poverty is at 36%, compared with the national average of 29%. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) But I also learned about poverty and the impact of damp houses, as well as about health inequalities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools (Mental Health Professionals) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) people who are experiencing trauma and abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, violence, anger, issues with food - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) supports employers who have employees with Tourette’s, as well as in youth centres and job centres, disability - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) have to find the funding for this from their own budgets.The intersectionality of mental health with poverty - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) Winchester made a powerful and wide-ranging intervention; I was grateful to him for drawing the links with poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) The Welsh Government say that the aim of the scheme is“to secure food production systems, keep farmers - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) The 2023 Bevan Foundation report “Poverty in Arfon in the 21st century”, commissioned by the hon. - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) , have been siphoned off by a tiny few,s while the many who helped to create and generate it suffer poverty - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) have been extra payments to pensioners and to those on benefits, and also to those in houses with a disability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) She told the audience that watching Ken Loach’s film “Kes”, about poverty, was a seminal moment for her - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Holmes, and thought how he and I would want to talk about listed events, and access in terms of both disability - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) services.DTT is free if you pay your licence fee, yet currently these services, described by the Digital Poverty - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) children have in their hands via new devices and new platforms and to the 2007 ban on advertising HFSS food - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) At the same time, and under the same Tory Government, child poverty has soared. - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) £200 million a year to local authorities and their local partners through the holiday activities and food - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) statutory paternity pay and statutory sick pay.I turn finally to benefits for those with additional disability - Speech Link
2: None They have taken a larger hit because as a proportion of their budget they spend a lot more on energy, food - Speech Link
3: None published survey findings showing that 55%—over half—of universal credit recipients had run out of food - Speech Link
4: None Other benefits, including disability benefits, contributory benefits and carers’ allowance, will be addressed - Speech Link