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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) The implementation of the two-child limit, the benefit cap and low levels of universal credit continue - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) do so—or introduce a Bill to increase the statutory limit to 123. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) or the ability to move at pace to increase the introduction of onshore wind schemes. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The best way to provide much-needed relief to struggling households and businesses is to increase very - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) the increase in the national living wage from April 2024, currently forecast to increase to at least - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) to respond to threats to the public from terrorists, hostile state actors, child abusers and criminal - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) We will reverse the Government’s decision to downgrade the response to shoplifting under £200, which - Speech Link
3: Lord Kakkar (XB - Life peer) Noble Lords will benefit in the years to come from his ongoing contributions to the work of your Lordships - Speech Link
4: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) in both Houses of Parliament have been able to participate, to the benefit of the Bill, which is welcome—but - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We will reverse the decision to downgrade the response to shoplifting under £200, making it easier to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The Secretary of State’s plans to increase maths teaching up to 18 are interesting. - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) to pick that up, with the transformative Scottish child payment. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) continue to bury their head in the sand on child benefit thresholds. - Speech Link
4: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) in the UK contributed £41 billion to the UK economy, an increase of 3.7% on the previous year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) The easiest way to do that is to actually increase working age migration to these isles.Beyond migration - Speech Link
2: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) , to do something to bring down the cost of living, and finally to act to increase the hope, aspiration - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) It is a benefit from Brexit, and I urge the House to support the Bill when it comes forward. - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) On the rented sector, a constituent wrote to me to say that their landlord had decided to increase the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) and for the same property to £30,000 per property and per breach of the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) higher up the supply chain, with the potential for costs to be spread to the sectors expected to benefit - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) to increase the supply of renewable liquid heating fuels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) The Government also need to remove the benefit cap and the two-child limit with its associated rape clause - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (CON - Hexham) to increase the overall employment rate, which was up by 0.1% on the month and 0.2% on the quarter, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
In-work Poverty - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) impacted by their child benefit cap than on removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses, and more focused on - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) Absolute child poverty is set to increase even more by the end of this year, meaning that another 400,000 - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) The first was:“I want people to be reassured that we’ve got to hold our nerve, stick to the plan and - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I look to the Minister to respond with the answers that we wish to hear. - Speech Link
5: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) Landlords are under enormous pressure to put up rents because of the increase in mortgages. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mortgage and Rental Costs - Tue 27 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) Where is the apology to those paying hundreds of pounds more a month in mortgage payments, or to those - Speech Link
2: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that the effect of such action would be to increase inflation - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) We continue to take forward supply-side policies to increase the productive capacity of this economy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) where the child is to be removed to. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) where the child is to be removed to. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) The amendments will increase the incentive for adults to claim to be a child and encourage people smugglers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) have to withdraw itself from the rights of the child. - Speech Link
5: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) One was that the safest route for the child will be to stop in the first safe country they come to. - Speech Link
6: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) 4 or to work with the grain of the Bill, however unpalatable we may find it, and seek to increase the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None However, the Government do not intend to increase the burden on businesses by requiring information to - Speech Link
2: None sensible change to increase the consultation period for pavement licences to 28 days, in line with the - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) thousands of pounds per application under the previous process. - Speech Link
4: None The big benefit of regional mutual banking is that it can focus its attention to the benefits of the - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) One of the missions laid out in the White Paper is to increase well-being. - Speech Link