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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) groups for green jobs and for disability access. - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) food banks have seen a 42% increase compared to 2022. - Speech Link
3: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) Figures from the Trussell Trust show that in the six months between April and September, food banks in - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) thank our food banks for the work they do in supporting our communities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) While real families struggle to heat their homes, put food on the table and afford Christmas, this lot - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I also remind the House that every Department has a disability lead in place. I echo the hon. - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) In the new year, will she hold a debate in this place about the work of food banks across the country - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) living help package—over £100 billion now—and why we have done so much to focus on lifting people out of poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) the final disability action plan. - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) Some 14 million people live with a disability. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) in fuel poverty, and a fifth of adults are estimated to be in problematic debt. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) There are hundreds of thousands fewer children in poverty today, thanks to this Government. - Speech Link
5: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) This year, over 4,300 emergency food parcels have been provided in Battersea by the Wandsworth food bank - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) There was nothing on rents, mortgages, food bills and, most of all, energy costs, as we go deeper into - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) It could also be used to invest in British farmers, to bring down food prices for the long term.The Bill - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Every special educational needs and disability school that serves my constituency is an independent school - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Under this Government 400,000 children have been brought out of absolute poverty, and we have seen the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Former Afghan Special Forces: Deportation - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 22 March 2024, and to be printed (Bill 92).Food - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) million children out of poverty. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) When I started doing research on food poverty as a new member of the London Assembly more than 10 years - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) created a network of centres for families with children up to 19, or up to 25 where the child has a disability - Speech Link
4: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) successful disabled child, you need to choose your parents carefully.Family support is important in disability - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) that the Scottish Government’s payments are“predicted to have a monumental impact on reducing child poverty - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Today is Fuel Poverty Awareness Day, and I thank National Energy Action for its work ensuring everyone - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) As we continue to celebrate Disability History Month, may I raise again the lack of any disabled lift - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Health Service: 75th Anniversary - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) By 2020, poverty in working families had reached a record high. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) This callous decision will blight the lives of tens of thousands of people with pain and disability and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) On the other hand, we have a high level of health inequality and poverty, and a food system that does - Speech Link
4: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) get me back to work quickly because it needed me there, but I was much more interested in the free food - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) But, sadly, growing numbers of older people are experiencing poverty, discrimination and poor health - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Benefit Claimants: Free Prescriptions - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Law and the principle of less eligibility that played significant roles in shaping the approach to poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) suggest that the employment rate will remain static, there will be 600,000 more people on sickness and disability - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) demonstrates that they cannot meet their immediate and most essential needs, including accommodation, heating, food - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) our boilers in lockdowns, the delivery drivers who brought us our shopping and the farmers who kept food - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) that their families are struggling to provide the absolute basic needs to stay warm and have enough food - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I turn first to individual and household poverty, inequality and insecurity. - Speech Link
4: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) You cannot go on planning picnics when you do not have any food in the larder. - Speech Link