To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

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

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They spend an estimated £20 billion in total and are managed by at least nine Whitehall departments and - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) It needs a dedicated body of people to look at this constantly in relation to the various departments - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) , education, government departments and local authorities—so the green jobs of the future will require - Speech Link
4: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) Nearly 8 million people of working age in the UK now say that they have a significant disability or health - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I also work for a disability assistance company, Microlink. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) and government departments. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neuberger (XB - Life peer) We were told that noise pollution issues span government departments. - Speech Link
3: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con - Life peer) , so I echo the call for something that encompasses all the departments. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Government figures suggest that 100,000 disability-adjusted life years were lost to road traffic noise - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Now, ministerial Departments are publishing the barest details. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) They are not very exciting, but they are reported monthly, and I think other Departments are also able - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I could point to many aspects of the work that has been done in many Departments to support disabled - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) Women and people from minority ethnic groups and those with disability,“remain underrepresented at senior - Speech Link
2: Lord Dunlop (Con - Life peer) Its funding is provided by the Scottish Government via Ofcom. - Speech Link
3: None In reality, responsibility is and should be shared with the Scottish Government. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) In which case, what are the Government going to be doing about it? - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) Questions relating to the census are a matter for colleagues in other departments, but I shall happily - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) The Government should hang their head in shame.Children are going hungry. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) We know that it will be embraced yet again by the incoming UK Labour Government. - Speech Link
3: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) It needs hard work, focus and prioritisation across Government Departments. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Of course, it was not; it was a coalition Government at the time. The hon. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Member for Twickenham asked about disability. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 02 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent) His words on how the Government have run down our NHS speak for millions. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the coalition Government - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Do the Government care? - Speech Link
4: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Will she alert and raise this issue with the relevant Ministers and Departments, and advise me on how - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) 46% had caring responsibilities and just 12% had a disability, so may we have a debate in Government - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World ME Day - Wed 01 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) I want to raise the issue of the involvement of multiple Departments, and it relates to my constituent - Speech Link
2: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Too often in this place, we move on from Departments and never speak of them again, but he has not. - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) I have met with a range of disability groups, and people are petrified. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I can recognise a disability that hurts. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration Update - Wed 01 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) With permission, I would like to make a statement on immigration.The Government are committed to reducing - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) meeting with him in his new role were not quite so keen to meet him when he was trying to promote the Disability - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) plan, our health and disability benefit reforms, and our reforms in a host of other areas. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Department for Education, the Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions and a whole host of other Departments - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage:s: 3rd sitting - Wed 01 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None I call the Government Whip to move an amendment to the programme order.Ordered,That the Programme Order - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) about the burden that they place on the health service and their family because of the illness and disability - Speech Link
3: Angela Richardson (Con - Guildford) I know the Government sometimes use influencers in order to change behaviour. - Speech Link
4: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) A common cause of admissions to emergency departments, through the winter particularly, is other respiratory - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) We have a situation in which eight government departments are dealing with poverty, but we do not have - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) doubly disadvantaged, having only one parent—and 34% of children living in families where someone has a disability - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) To say there are no university departments that take poverty seriously is daft—go to Hull, to LSE, to - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) Of course, all Whitehall departments are supposed to be doing things to reduce poverty, but the main - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) It would be the responsibility of all government departments to tackle the fundamental drivers of poverty - Speech Link