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Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) pension credit for mixed-age couples, the freezing of the hard-earned state pensions of pensioners living overseas - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Ignoring the ombudsman’s findings sets a dangerous precedent, allowing Government Departments to evade - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) us—the injustice of the mineworkers’ pension scheme, the injustice of freezing the pension rate for overseas - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) In the light of those concerns, and to aid Parliament with its work, I ask again, as we did previously - Speech Link
5: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) The Government are listening. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 15 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) net for all, regardless of their immigration status.Secondly, we need to extend the scope of legal aid - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) no recourse to public funds policy, I would argue that, given the national support in place through Departments - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) migrants with permission under the family or private life routes, or the Hong Kong British national overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) on prisoner transfer to overseas prisons. - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) really want to send overseas. - Speech Link
3: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) causing death by dangerous driving to be widened to include a failure to stop, call 999 and render aid - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Yes, we do go overseas on visits where we try to increase our understanding of other nations. - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) decisions of the global bodies that uphold and interpret that law, while many of their colleagues in other Departments - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) after generation lives with precious little opportunity, almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is popular to make sure that we properly defend these isles and defend our interests overseas. - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) would provide £15 billion of guaranteed aid to Ukraine. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Departments must be more resilient in peacetime, and must have in place plans for worst-case scenarios - Speech Link
4: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) No Government can be exonerated for the Kool-Aid that they drank after the fall of the Berlin Wall.During - Speech Link
5: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) We have laid on various welcome home events when people come back from overseas deployments and laid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None Recently I was the chair of Christian Aid and we did quite a lot of work in Gaza—there was a lot on educational - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As set out in FCDO guidance on overseas business risk, there are clear risks related to economic and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) fighting, which is the best route to secure the safe release of hostages and significantly step up aid - Speech Link
4: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) universities are privileged among European countries to host some of the finest international relations departments - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) But another factor has been the numbers of overseas students and workers and their dependants rising - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) list, which allowed companies to undercut British workers by hiring overseas. - Speech Link
3: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) taken on a 10-hour journey from Scotland to England, I suspect because in Scotland he would get legal aid - 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


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) departments, and I thank my noble friends the Ministers for engaging with her and Stella over some of - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) but we do not compensate the victims who are overseas. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Deputy Prime Minister wrote to all departments to ensure that everyone who works in government is - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) are already considering access to legal aid at inquests following major incidents. - Speech Link
5: None The Cabinet Office is working closely with the existing infected blood support schemes, departments across - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) programme supports the protection and sustainable management of 4.3 million sq km of ocean around Britain’s overseas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) The Deputy Foreign Secretary will be aware that over 90% of the UK’s biodiversity is within the overseas - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The overseas territories are not suppliers of plastic but they are receivers of a lot of it, and that - Speech Link
4: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) the programme would work properly only if all the Ministers responsible for the Arctic in different Departments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) as planning departments also need strengthening in many cases.Housing associations are limited in their - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) Nowadays, as the noble Lord said, most architect departments and direct works have been dispensed with - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) We grew up in the shadow of terrorism, at home and overseas. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) Women’s Aid points to the lack of affordable housing as a primary barrier to those escaping abuse.Yet - Speech Link
5: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) I received, as I am sure we all have, briefings ahead of this debate—for example, from Women’s Aid—about - Speech Link