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Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) These people are typically older; they are suffering from poor mental health—I very much look forward - Speech Link
2: Lord Layard (Lab - Life peer) People with mental health problems comprise at least half of all those on disability benefits who are - Speech Link
3: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) Such an initiative that is worth considering.Fourthly, on older people, as the committee explains, the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) that there will be 600,000 more people on health and disability benefits by 2028-29, with costs going - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Stability is needed to ensure that older people get the high-quality care they deserve and that councils - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Coastal communities face unique challenges related to their geography, demographics—often they have older - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) He has a life-limiting illness and severe disability. - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.The hon. - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) people in our society more bearable and a little better, and to create a sense of place in which people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab - Life peer) victim-survivors present include digital exclusion, dementia and increased vulnerability due to disability - Speech Link
2: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab - Life peer) older people will be considered as a group and their special needs will be considered in the following - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Coastal and Rural Communities: Employment - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) East Coast College is playing a vital role in enabling young and older people to acquire the skills needed - Speech Link
2: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) Coastal communities face higher levels of deprivation, inward migration of older people and outward migration - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) housing above all else. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) They acquire English as a second language as they get older, but under pressure they will no doubt want - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) I chair a disability committee for the Local Government Association— I am a vice-president of the LGA—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) , alcohol and drug abuse, accommodation and housing needs, and interaction with the criminal justice - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab - Tooting) We know that many people who have lost people in that way feel they want to take their own lives, and - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) disability living allowance. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) discussing today have impacts in so many different areas, whether we are talking about the environment, housing - Speech Link
4: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) understanding, and supporting the positive mental health of children and young people. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mentoring - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) The programme tries to recruit older volunteers to use their life experience and skills to provide emotional - Speech Link
2: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) As many as 75% were stable with regard to housing, which is a huge change, given the figures we heard - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) people with special educational needs, a learning difficulty or a disability starting apprenticeships - Speech Link
4: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) He will be aware that I chair the all-party parliamentary group for disability. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children Not in School: National Register and Support - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) She makes an important point about the wider pressures that children and young people are facing. - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) enough that our children are doing better than children elsewhere if they are doing worse than their older - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) The cost of living crisis is ever present, and the housing crisis forces many families to move from house - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) resulting in more children and young people missing school. - Speech Link
5: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) myself what is happening to our children in the Wirral, particularly when families are affected by disability - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living: Pensioners - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) There are 2 million older people living in poverty—that is one in six—and another million are sitting - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I always mention carer’s allowance if they do not receive disability living allowance, and I always mention - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) people in receipt of housing benefit and council tax reduction, for example? - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) for older people and ageing? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
SEND Provision and Funding - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) have rightly set out to halve the disability employment gap. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) More families with one or more children with additional needs are also facing housing stress. - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) At this stage, it is important to remember that special educational needs and disability legislation - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) another for slightly older students with mental health and behavioural issues. - Speech Link
5: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) after-school care; and, for older children, during the school holidays. - Speech Link