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Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) The Government took a big step earlier this year to improve pensions, by changing the tax regime to make - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I would be grateful if the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions provided an update on the progress - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) but it is also about the affordability of private rents, with the local housing allowance rates being frozen - Speech Link
4: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) I call the shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
5: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) No doubt, when he rises to speak, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions will tell us about work - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) The British people are crying out for a clear choice. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) On the Work and Pensions Committee, we have heard from organisations such as Citizens Advice about the - Speech Link
3: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Friend pointed out, the promised reform of pensions was also absent. - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) be no statutory decent home standard in the private sector, and local housing allowances will remain frozen - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) We will switch on Great British Energy, a new British company giving us cheaper bills, new highly paid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) From the frozen waste of the High North to the streets of Kosovo, they are the best of us. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) These are very tough times for the British people. - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Basically, most capital spending was frozen or reduced, and that has led to a growing problem. - Speech Link
4: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) swallows the entire amount of national insurance contributions, and what was supposed to cover health and pensions - Speech Link
5: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) The Department for Work and Pensions was not responding to her, and she had been passed from pillar to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
State Pensions: Canada Free Trade Agreement - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) UK state pensions are uprated overseas only where there is a legal requirement to do so. - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) are not frozen—in the USA, for example, and, as reinforced in the recent Brexit trade agreement, in - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I hear what the Minister says, but the APPG on frozen pensions said in its report in 2020 that - Speech Link
4: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) from an agricultural constituency who was bemoaning the fact that Canada imports a certain amount of British - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) As I have already mentioned, the Government have made sure that pensions, benefits and the minimum wage - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Yesterday I met the families of some of the British hostages held by Hamas. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I will be meeting some of the families and offering them all the support of the British Government to - Speech Link
4: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Last night, sections of the British media were reporting as fact that it was Israeli rockets that had - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) the actions that we have taken, we have paid half of the typical family’s energy bill last winter, frozen - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) rent, determined by local housing allowance, has not changed at all since 2020—it has been completely frozen - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) proposals made, so that we can really help to improve sick pay—something that has the backing of 75% of British - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) Thousands of women who have been underpaid their state pensions due to departmental mistakes will be - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) Act 2010, for example, is the cornerstone of ensuring equalities legislation, and we also have the British - Speech Link
5: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) We of course look at particularly targeting harder-hit pensioners through pension credit, and the Pensions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hong Kong Update - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We introduced the bespoke visa route for British nationals overseas. - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) sanctioned in this House just for speaking in defence of Uyghurs and Tibetans, we had our assets in China frozen—if - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We are aware of the difficulties that BNOs are experiencing in seeking the early withdrawal of their pensions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Sector Pay - Thu 13 Jul 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) We plan to increase the rates of the immigration health surcharge, which have been frozen for the past - Speech Link
2: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Does he agree that the NHS settlement has to be seen alongside the Budget announcement on pensions, as - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) It was noticeable that in his initial statement he did not mention the fact that the British economy - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Member for Wolverhampton South East needs to come to terms with that, because the British people will - Speech Link
5: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) country back into the workplace, with a number of interventions through the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush Generation: 75th Anniversary - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) only been compounded by the difficulties that have arisen.I want to raise an additional issue: the frozen - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Unions: Skilled Professional Graduate Workers - Thu 06 Jul 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) organisations including UNISON, the BMA, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association and the British - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) I have never wanted to see the British class system alive and well in this or any other part of our country - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) If the Government were to improve pensions and retirement provisions, they might have a case. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) Lord Monks warned us against any notion of a hierarchy of workers and spoke about the benefits of the British - Speech Link