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Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (XB - Life peer) We offer free early education to three and four year-olds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) school meals, should in itself be an enormous red flag to politicians and policymakers concerned with - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) The very idea of a shortage of labour in a free market is an oxymoron. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free School Meals - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) A free school meal can be life changing; its benefits are enormous.Extending free school meals offers - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) out on free school meals. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) school meals programme was fully funded by the Government.Healthy free school meals impact on many aspects - Speech Link
4: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Universal free school meals would obviously solve that. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) the school expects of them in respect of turning up.In addressing the issue of school attendance, however - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Those two cohorts were identical in all respects—special educational needs and disabilities, free school - Speech Link
3: None That is why Labour has committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school in England - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) than it is at primary school. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) People spend enormous amounts of money on smoking, so stopping smoking would free up that money to be - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) What would you say to that as an argument for continuing with the smoke-free generation legislation? - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) It is a free-for-all: you get your bubble gum and your vape there. Is that problematic? - Speech Link
4: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) personal protective equipment under a ventilation hood—if you remember chemistry from when you were at school—pulling - Speech Link
5: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) We have disposable vapes, plastic toys with happy meals and toasters—all small appliances that do not - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post-16 Education: Isles of Scilly - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) More to the point, those young people can go home to their families at the end of each school day.That - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) immoral and wrong for a parent to have to pay for their children’s education when sixth-form education is free - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) The other option available to families is boarding school, where these young people have supervision - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) That includes free meals and bursaries to help with the cost of education, whether that is travel, books - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Using tax-free allowances, it is feasible to turn £10 per week into £160,000, using a medium rate of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) school meals and food banks to feed their families all contribute to intense stress. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) school meals for children. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) For example, we have extended free school meal eligibility several times and to more groups of children - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) there is more worrying evidence today about generation lockdown, among which there is not only massive school - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) It is not more free cash, as some have said. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) levelling up the Tees Valley—but it is the Conservatives who are delivering the largest expansion of free - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) We worked together on the all-party parliamentary group on hunger, the School Holidays (Meals and Activities - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that where this has happened in communities and people are not able to get access to free - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Of those surveyed, 80% are eating cheaper—unhealthier—meals, 55% have been worried about running out - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) throughout the system for individuals.Further, there is additional support for families, including free - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I declare my interests as a research fellow on public health at the Milken Institute School of Public - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) her life that she had had the opportunity to gain educational qualifications, but she had to leave school - Speech Link
3: Lord Turnberg (Lab - Life peer) Meals on wheels has disappeared and support services are squeezed out completely. - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Our new plan regarding school checks and water fluoridation is all to help with that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Is a private school a public body? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I am a grammar school boy. I benefited from a scholarship. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) governors should sit poring over the school meals procurement to see whether they are contravening the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) All public bodies must be free to avoid investment in fossil fuels, which are contributing to climate - Speech Link