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

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) relationships with increasing age, be they failing faculties, ill health or, ultimately, bereavement - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) This text, which is popular at weddings and funerals, frames love not as an unattainable ideal, but something - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) It is in houses and flats that families and households of different shapes and sizes are built, and housing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Member for Greenwich and Woolwich and other hon. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) As the UK Commission on Bereavement has detailed, in the aftermath of a bereavement, renters face not - Speech Link
3: Karen Buck (Lab - Westminster North) Many young people and vulnerable people—for instance, after a relationship breakdown or a bereavement—do - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and supports our ecosystems. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) I have engaged with our all-party parliamentary group for funerals and bereavement, and I met them to - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) The amendments have the effect that certain closed-loop ground source heating and cooling systems and - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) I am very grateful to the shadow Minister for her comments, and for being helpful and constructive in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bereaved Children: Registry - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) development and to make more sense of research on the impact of bereavement on children’s lives.”The - Speech Link
2: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Limits were put on numbers of people attending funerals, and there were barriers to the usual support - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) such as bereavement. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Baby Loss and Safe Staffing in Maternity Care - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (CON - Hexham) others who work in this sphere and who have helped me get over the trauma, loss and bereavement, as - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (CON - Meriden) Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 and the extra £127 million for the NHS. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) who almost died in the process.Over the last year or so, I have gone to more funerals than I have in - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) and the national bereavement care pathway. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Her Late Majesty the Queen - Sat 10 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: George Howarth (LAB - Knowsley) of our country and of the Commonwealth and beyond, and exceptionally good judgment. - Speech Link
2: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) The fortitude that they are showing, especially our King, at a time of bleak bereavement is a clear sign - Speech Link
3: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) and through pandemics such as covid and foot and mouth. - Speech Link
4: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) funerals that begins,“Do not weep that I have gone,but rejoice that I have been.”It seems appropriate - Speech Link
5: Shaun Bailey (CON - West Bromwich West) my constituents and to right hon. and hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Government Action on Suicide Prevention - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Not everyone who experiences bereavement or relationship breakdown, or who is under massive pressure - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) The NHS long-term plan allocated £57 million for suicide prevention and bereavement services, which are - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) it has impacted him and his wider family and Tom’s family and friends. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It was quite difficult when some of the funerals took place: that circle of friends was decimated and - Speech Link
5: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Paul’s Place offers bereavement support to families who have lost members to suicide. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funeral Plan Industry - Thu 26 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) I am a member of the all-party parliamentary group on funerals and bereavement, and pay tribute to all - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) Funerals are clearly important and sensitive moments for families as they say goodbye to their loved - Speech Link
3: Lucy Allan (CON - Telford) Lady was absolutely right to talk about dignified funerals: that is a vital issue, and I am pleased that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safe Hands Funeral Plans - Thu 12 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) I would also like to thank the all-party parliamentary group for funerals and bereavement and its chair - Speech Link
2: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) not address.As has been said, funerals are painful experiences, but they can also provide people with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Dignity, one of the largest funeral plan providers, has committed temporarily to provide funerals to - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) and search and the powers that the police are using. - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) bereavement support payments, but they now appear to have laid the remedial order again, without any - Speech Link