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Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) It estimates that the increase to national insurance contributions provided for in the Bill will cost - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) The way to have one is not to have this national insurance increase—that would be very simple. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) exempt part-time workers from the increase in employers’ NICs but to reduce the rate of employers’ NICs - Speech Link
4: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) Therefore, I very much support the amendments to exempt smaller businesses from the increase in NI to - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) The proposed ENIC increase will inevitably reduce the critical services they provide, in many cases to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 10 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) The Conservative Government failed to act fast with France and other countries to increase enforcement - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) decision making collapsed, with a 70% drop in monthly decision making in the run-up to the election - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) an increase to the threshold for dependant visas. - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) that gets to the heart of the problem, which has to be to smash the gangs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Creative Industries - Mon 27 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) child has the opportunity to study music, dance, drama and the visual arts.Finally, I turn to local government - Speech Link
2: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) The British Council may have to sell half of its art in order to pay back a £200 million debt from covid - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) working together to increase the UK’s influence abroad. - Speech Link
4: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) A library can make the difference: to a child discovering their love of reading, to an adult learning - Speech Link
5: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) If we do not allow every child the right to an arts education, we will miss out on the next Tracey Emin - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Credit (Standard Allowance Entitlement of Care Leavers) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 17 Jan 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) to be sanctioned in the benefit system than their peers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) I, too, welcome the introduction of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which aims to increase - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) We tend to deal in pounds and pence all the time, but there are morals as well; we ought to be aware - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) authorities, can be paid to those entitled to housing benefit or the housing element of universal credit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) the rent multiplied by CPI; or(b) the rent for the previous period plus an increase equal to the rent - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) perfectly able to afford the monthly rent on a property. - Speech Link
3: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) of landlord income, with the ability to evict tenants at the end of the academic year and to increase - Speech Link
4: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) In France, the annual increase is limited to 3.5%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) Will the Government consider what opportunities there are to work with local authorities to increase - Speech Link
2: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab - Suffolk Coastal) Will the Minister meet me to discuss the trust’s projects and the barriers to progress? - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Is it in order for the Government to have known that was coming but not to have come to the House to - Speech Link
4: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) What steps is the Solicitor General taking to work with the police to increase the number of prosecutions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 17 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Robin Swann (UUP - South Antrim) At this time when the solution was meant to be to move to multidisciplinary teams, the increase in national - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) The Labour party has said in the main that it is the right choice to increase NICs. - Speech Link
3: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) They will have to absorb the budget increase. - Speech Link
4: John Grady (Lab - Glasgow East) The changes to national insurance are critical to this additional funding, which will benefit the people - Speech Link
5: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Labour Government stick to the pledge we made in the election campaign not to increase taxes on working - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Cohesion and Community during Periods of Change - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) Security I distributed £200 billion of your money, in modern money, to the poor, the needy and so on - Speech Link
2: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) If Rio Tinto-Zinc wants to come and give me £5 million to spend for the benefit of the most disfranchised - Speech Link
3: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Above all, as president of COP 26, he did the impossible, uniting nearly 200 countries to commit to the - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Not too far away, a farm belonging to the diocese of about 200 acres was for sale.Why can the Church - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) place in the world to be a child online.On the pertinent point about misinformation and disinformation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Assistance to Ukraine Bill
2nd reading - Wed 20 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) Point 5 in the annexe to the G7 statement says:“Loans will be fully disbursed to the benefit of Ukraine - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) I look forward to the potential of this Bill to be a route to mobilising billions of pounds of Russian - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Highgate) the ERA and the benefit that it will give to Ukraine right now, because we are very conscious of the - Speech Link
4: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Highgate) for the purpose of providing loans or other financial assistance to, or for the benefit of, the government - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environmental Protection - Wed 13 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) They have the right to take their children to the park without their child picking up a shiny vape that - Speech Link
2: Mary Glindon (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend) scheme, but the fines for breaching the rules must be higher than £200 per offence. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) is projected to increase exponentially over the next several years. - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Therefore, if we can encourage more people to vape rather than smoke, that is to the benefit of public - Speech Link
5: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) , as well as to support wider measures across government to tackle the increase in youth vaping, and - Speech Link