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Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) David says that despite all the challenges his son faces, he has recently moved into independent living - Speech Link
2: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) emergence of the problems that reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete has caused in many public sector buildings - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) what it should be, but we should commend an exemplary maiden speech and wish her all the best in her parliamentary - Speech Link
4: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Shropshire, where the average house price is 8.6 times average earnings, according to the all-party parliamentary - Speech Link
5: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Even the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has pointed out, with some surprise, that“a lot of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The Bill will set out examples of the acquisition routes that amount to lawful authority. - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) that helpful introduction and for the briefings that he and his officials have organised, including in buildings - Speech Link
3: Baroness Manningham-Buller (XB - Life peer) abilities to intrude into people’s privacy, that work has to be done with great care to the highest ethical standards - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) In the case of this Bill, parliamentary time currently allows. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) It was drinking and climbing: I used to get drunk and climb up buildings and, quite rightly, the school - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) put the two things together and accuse us—by which I mean the West at its widest—of stunning double standards - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Thousands of displaced children are taught daily within improvised buildings protected by air raid shelters - Speech Link
4: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) We are great because of our refusal to allow our standards, beliefs, culture and history to be brushed - Speech Link
5: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) Gaza and the West Bank, united under a single administrative authority, should be physically linked by - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) progress, as was acknowledged in the Home Affairs Committee report, on medication-assisted treatment standards - Speech Link
2: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) I hope that I can match at least some of her parliamentary energy. - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) We cannot continue at the rate we are seeing, with lost lives and 50% of buildings in Gaza demolished - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) The public should be able to read an independent assessment on the health of our economy, to understand - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) , Governments would feel obliged to enter a 12-week process with the OBR in case the outcome of the independent - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Once buildings are properly insulated, they could be heated by district heating systems provided by a - Speech Link
4: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Indeed, our industrial heritage buildings are being repurposed for gaming industry disruptors, who appreciate - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) It is not going to be this reform that pushes landlords out; it will be the responsibility of the independent - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) tribunal structure, which is less intimidating, less informal and does not necessarily have to use court buildings—any - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) You have to avoid compromising the independence of the ombudsman to make independent decisions and to - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) According to the OBR, the little list of greening our power, buildings and industry, increasing defence - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) I saw these in action as a board member of the Northumberland National Park Authority, with its various - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Flood risk is usually built into farm insurance as standard, if available, when it comes to buildings - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) We must use this opportunity to drive up standards in other countries and not allow our standards to - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) and low-carbon heating to support the work we are doing to reduce the UK’s energy consumption from buildings - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) that they have simply got rid of the standards altogether. - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) impression that this reform will affect every leaseholder, but it will not; it will apply only to new buildings - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) That amounted to 134 hours of parliamentary time left unused. - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) Public buildings are collapsing. - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) told in a recent letter from a GP in Putney how far too many surgeries are“stuck in tiny residential buildings - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) What measures are there to improve the energy efficiency of buildings? - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) been crystal clear that the callous decision to scrap the upgrade to the minimum energy efficiency standards - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) The Government announced an independent review of the Mental Health Act in 2017. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) on energy efficiency standards for domestic properties, particularly in the private rented sector, will - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) that Ministers originally promised, but never delivered, to groups of people such as those living in buildings - Speech Link
2: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) I worry because, when you give a local authority that authority, I do not know how much it can fairly - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) These include the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) This will end exploitative practices, such as charging a 50% commission on buildings insurance, and will - Speech Link