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Lords Chamber
Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 - Tue 10 Dec 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None It would be useful if the Minister could set out how this is to be enforced. - Speech Link
2: None United Kingdom is that Northern Ireland is deemed to be part, and legislated to be part, of the EU single - Speech Link
3: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) In order for it to be a valid treaty, there is a requirement that it must respect the territorial integrity - Speech Link
4: None There can be no other reason for them doing what they did: it is a rigged vote to get the outcome that - Speech Link
5: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) The old proverb says that where there is a will, there is a way—but the truth is that the EU wanted to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Does he agree that the Bill must be supported by all in the House if there is to be justice for all in - Speech Link
2: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) It operates on the basis that GB—those who got Brexitis no longer a part of the EU; it is, in the words - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) , in the mind of the EU, the treaty is not as sacrosanct as he is trying to make it out to be for the - Speech Link
4: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) to the fact that there is no clear timeline for the implementation of the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Civil Service: Politicisation - Thu 28 Nov 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) At the last count, there were said to be 41 spads in No. 10.There is currently a mystery about the Civil - Speech Link
2: Lord Maude of Horsham (Con - Life peer) There is no time to go through them, but the key point I made was that any addition to Ministers’ ability - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) There are obvious tensions, and they have to be managed.The second is the position of the Government - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannett of Everton (Lab - Life peer) way if there are to be any changes. - Speech Link
5: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) So there is work to be done, and let us all work to try to continue the improvement of our Civil Service - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The Ukraine Effect (European Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 21 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Close co-operation with the EU will also be vital if duplication is to be avoided and efficiency maximised - Speech Link
2: Lord Tugendhat (Con - Life peer) The danger is that it will be so difficult for the EU member states to reach agreement on programmes - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) there that falls short of what is needed if Russia is to be effectively deterred in the future.As to - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) The UK should try to be part of it, even if we are still outside the EU. - Speech Link
5: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) Unshackled by EU membership, with no obligation to wait while the ECB continues to dither, there is a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Farming Families - Thu 21 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The figure at which IHT was to be applied made no sense to me. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is far too complex to be understood, but clearly many small businesses do not have the resources to - Speech Link
3: Lord Colgrain (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In the run-up to the election, the then shadow Minister Steve Reed said consistently that there would - Speech Link
4: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) proper aim, the starting point must be to reach agreement on the actual effect of the change. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universities - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) This is where universities must work with the Government to ensure that the Treasury is utterly convinced - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) There may be many reasons for that, but one point to note is that the institutional structure of research - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Brexit damaged our opportunities to do so in the EU. - Speech Link
4: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) If the British visa process is the slowest, they have already committed to going to Canada before we - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) If the Government want to get it right, the threshold needs to be raised, and it is not too late. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) There is simply no way that we will get to the higher business investment, the higher productivity growth - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) the wrong thing to do, full stop, but if it is going to go ahead, there must be exemptions. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) That is the truth—there is no point denying it.Finally, there is the awful betrayal of British farmers - Speech Link
5: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) that the contract meets the conditions to be an excluded contract.(6) But no claim is required if the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) It is then no surprise that the number of (wealthier) patients opting to pay to be treated privately - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) It is a pleasure to be back. It is a pleasure to be opposite the Secretary of State, as he now is. - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) If the predictions we are seeing about growth are borne out, there is a real risk to our public services - Speech Link
4: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) There would be no shame if the Labour Government were to do something about this gross problem with their - Speech Link
5: Dan Aldridge (Lab - Weston-super-Mare) There was no dignity in that, and that is the state we have been left with.For us, if Labour had not - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income tax (charge) - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) must be nurtured if they are to succeed. - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) not be able to continue if there is 20% increase in fees as a result of the imposition of VAT. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) There can be no mistake: the cost to the country is very dear. - Speech Link
4: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) going to bail out the economy, is very flawed.I do not suggest there is going to be a bond crisis tomorrow - Speech Link
5: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) They might be on their way out the door, but the least they owe the people of Scotland is not to leave - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 30 Oct 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) There is no mystery to that. - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) Now that the funding commitment is there, I hope that there will be no slowdown in the delivery of that - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) We must be under no illusions: the Budgets of past Governments were Budgets to enrich the rich and to - Speech Link
4: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) There must be no doubt that the Chancellor’s task to deliver that was extremely difficult, given the - Speech Link
5: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) What is he going to say to the farmers of the Vale of Glamorgan who fear that they will no longer be - Speech Link