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Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) Some have a slightly higher figure than 69%; others, slightly lower. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) We saw this during the coronavirus pandemic, when local authorities rose to the challenge of distributing - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) and further education, as well as culture—which aims to mitigate the impacts of growing up in poverty - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) The council’s remit stretched from social services to education, housing, environmental improvement, - Speech Link
5: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) When funding for arts education programmes is slashed or arts venues are forced to shut their doors, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tutoring Provision - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) grades and having a higher lifetime earnings potential. - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) was impacted during the global coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) issue.The Government set up the national tutoring programme in England in response to the impact of the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) I would rather see that additional funding for middle-class and higher-income parents who can afford - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) health, both physical and mental.The number of people affected by the scandal is likely to be much higher - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) This had a worse psychological effect than the coronavirus on the general population.Some interim measures - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Kalwant Bhopal, professor of education and social justice and director of the Centre for Research in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) It found that a higher proportion of men than women were either overweight or obese—69%, compared with - Speech Link
2: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Despite that, childhood obesity rates in Bexley have worsened following the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The proportions were higher among year 6 children, with 23.4% being obese. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, we think that the true figure is much higher, as parents are not legally required to register - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Education is a fundamental right. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) but not receiving a suitable education, or how many are receiving no education at all. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) register of children not in school will do something about persistent absence, I am afraid she may have higher - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Excess Death Trends - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Yet again we are seeing a peak in covid hospitalisations, as we should be expecting from a coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) principle, ignored the fact that interventions may cause harm, suspended the importance of children’s education - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) No one could realistically deny that deaths are higher than expected. - Speech Link
4: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) confirm again, that we believe vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in relation to coronavirus - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) the European Co-operative Society (Involvement of Employees) Regulations 2006 and the Working Time (Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Do the regulations mean that the hundreds of thousands of term-time only staff who work for education - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) low paid, as she said.Our regulatory system is recognised globally, but we want to raise the bar even higher - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) we considered how the Government were weighing up trying to save lives, save the economy, save the education - Speech Link
2: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) Of course, we now have higher death rates in other fields than we had from Covid.We have saddled our - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) It is hard for those who are delivering education—it is much harder than a single model—but, if we want - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) A prosperous economy makes it easier to cope with Covid legacies in health, education and the other areas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Horseracing - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) In fact, horseracing is brilliant at taking youngsters, who might not have succeeded in mainstream education - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) That is money that would go directly to activities such as animal welfare, veterinary science and education—things - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) important as an early warning system to keep the equine population safe.Over the last few years, in the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) obviously been cross-party agreement on FOBTs over the past couple of years, but the levy would be higher - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) of charities and organisations that work to prevent gambling harms, providing a range of treatment, education - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Honesty in Politics - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Being expelled from the House pales in comparison to the legal framework for coronavirus restrictions - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) It shows that UK voters care about how those in power are held to account, and there is notably higher - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) dying moments, friends unable to attend funerals, businesses struggling and young people missing out on education - Speech Link