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Commons Chamber
Water Companies: Executive Bonuses - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Using new powers granted to Ofwat by this Government in the landmark Environment Act 2021, Ofwat announced - Speech Link
2: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) In that context, does she agree with me that Northern Ireland desperately needs an independent environment - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) In December 2022, The Guardian reported that water companies have paid £69.5 billion in dividends. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) In 2021, all of Somerset’s five rivers were rated poor by the Environment Agency. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) a peculiar situation for people in the north-west of England who would receive news about the goings-on - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) This change was first recommended by Ofcom in its “Small Screen: Big Debate” report in 2021.The change - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) However, I agree that for organisations involved in women’s football, for example, or involved in nations - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) did the Government choose to introduce them today? - Speech Link
5: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Of course the matches involving the England football team, and indeed the matches involving the Welsh - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) I echo the Chancellor’s thanks to the independent Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee for its work - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It would mean that the rate of universal credit is set by an independent body which takes the cost of - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) January 2025 than in December 2019. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Incomes are projected to fall by 3.1% in real terms from December 2019 to January 2025. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) for an independent Bank, but might it now be timely to include in the Bank’s letter a requirement, as - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) With the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, which were obviously in a different time zone, some digital on-demand - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) At the end of the day, Ofcom is an independent regulator. - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) inaugural chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, the industry’s own regulator. - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) reason that there was no independent accountability and no body to recognise that independent regulator - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) What her planned timetable is for establishing an independent regulator for English football. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) Football Association, the leagues and fan associations to build the best independent regulator possible - Speech Link
3: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) sustainability, the independent football regulator will have targeted statutory powers to intervene - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) independent regulator for football is ready to go as soon as new legislation is passed? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) An independent councillor in the highlands called Matthew Reiss, himself a senior retired police officer - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) It is always worth recalling that in a fair society, before independent courts, there is an opportunity - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) I am glad that the police in England are learning from wonderful projects in Scotland, as mentioned by - Speech Link
4: None measures to stop the pumping of sewage into waterways or introduce a new tougher water regulator to - 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) case the outcome of the independent process that she advocates made any crisis worse by highlighting - Speech Link
3: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) In Stockport, unfortunately, the wait for an assessment by NHS continence services is 31 weeks, which - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) living in poverty in 2021-22—about 1 million more people than in the previous year. - Speech Link
5: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) , which would give new statutory powers to the independent Office for Budget Responsibility —an uncontroversial - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) be subject to an independent forecast by the OBR, and we will provide greater certainty by committing - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) The FSA, both for England and for Scotland, goes on in the report to call on the Government to introduce - Speech Link
3: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) The prospect of government mandating how assets are invested was trialled in the December 2021 letter - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) In December 2022, the Transport Secretary. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) However, given his emphasis on Labour’s respect for the independent Bank of England, perhaps he will - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) We want to see the Government getting on with setting up the independent regulator, and for it to be - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) And it is Labour that will introduce a new NHS standard that guarantees everyone in England the right - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Meanwhile, Arts Council England had its per capita budget reduced by 13% between 2009-10 and 2021-22. - Speech Link
4: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) the animal lovers and, for football fans, a regulator to ensure that they are consulted, among other - Speech Link
5: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) the NHS is an independent future in Scotland. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) recognition of end-of-life care by the regulator, the CQC.While people are dying in conditions and circumstances - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) This provided for an independent review of current supply, an assessment of need of the right staff in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) It was designed by an architect who is now in disgrace for his sexual assaults and has been dropped by - Speech Link
4: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) Compared with crowd-pleasers such as pedicab regulations and a football regulator, which I am sure are - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is an average increase of 2.5% per year in real terms between 2014-15 and 2021-22. - Speech Link