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Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) the lotto, a lucky 15 on the horses or a flutter once a year on the grand national. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) a horse, because we are invested in that horse. - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) In 1958, he won the grand national on Mr What and the King George on Lochroe. - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) It is not that someone has a bet on a horse, then a second bet and it is entirely addictive. - Speech Link
5: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) on spend, rather than on stakes, are the right way to go, and those limits should be based on affordability - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) We will also introduce new fiscal rules. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) It is preventable.Poverty limits opportunity and life chances. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Why is it at present nigh on impossible to export cattle from this country for breeding purposes, but - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) policies such as ultra-low emission zones or 20 mph speed limits. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries - Thu 14 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) which horse will win. - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Ancient texts about bets on horse races go back to everywhere. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) in one of racing’s crown jewels: the Epsom Derby or the Grand National. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) how best to introduce these measures, rather than a diktat being administered straight away. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Payments) (No.2) Bill, followed by consideration of Lords amendments to the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Friend join me in congratulating the George & Dragon in Ilfracombe on reaching the national finals - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Scottish National party. - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) Following years of campaigning by angry leaseholders and angry MPs such as myself, action on the national - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) The first limits the number of these animals that can be moved on a non-commercial basis. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) and it will raise the minimum age at which these animals can be transported.We have also heard that limits - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) the National Audit Office report on the APHA site in Weybridge in Surrey. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) I note that the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill would introduce new prohibitions on the keeping, breeding - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Therefore, precision breeding allows us to introduce beneficial characteristics that could have occurred - Speech Link
2: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) Until recently, the main way of doing this was using viruses that were piggybacked as a kind of Trojan horse - Speech Link
3: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) editing or precision breeding on the other? - Speech Link
4: Lord Jopling (CON - Life peer) that it seems a pity that the Bill gives no encouragement to these sorts of benefits because of the limits - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) That is a particularly huge issue for organic farmers.That issue is played out on a national scale too - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horseracing Industry - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to introduce this timely debate. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lipsey (LAB - Life peer) If they introduce some of the changes that have been advocated—I do not say by the noble Lord, Lord Foster—then - Speech Link
3: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) I have only had the odd flutter on the Grand National and occasional visits to the wonderful racecourse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Being on that steering group drew my attention to the work that the Horse Welfare Board is carrying out - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Sat 10 Sep 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (LAB - Life peer) I was certainly not the first woman captain, but it seemed to give the Queen pleasure to introduce a - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) I could not resist naughtily adding a handwritten postscript:“On another matter, arguably of less national - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We have not put time limits on tributes, but in order for us not to have to do that I respectfully request - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Many of your Lordships will have seen the pure joy that seeing a horse that she had bred win on the racecourse - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Society and the Shire Horse Society. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) We would introduce a windfall tax, use that money to reduce VAT on gas and electricity bills from 5% - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) We would introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas producer profits to cut household bills by up to £600 - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) They should also introduce a real living wage—a living wage for all that people can actually live on—rather - Speech Link
4: Clive Lewis (LAB - Norwich South) the limits of GDP growth as a metric for success. - Speech Link
5: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) It is about speeding up the breeding that happens naturally.We should have introduced an electronic trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) On British soil, action is being taken by the National Trust and the Welsh Government, but the UK Government - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) animals are farmed and hunted for food, and used in scientific and medical research under strict legal limits - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) Members on both sides of the House called for, as did the National Farmers Union. - Speech Link
4: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) It is not so much a bonfire of quangos as a breeding ground for quangos. - Speech Link
5: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) We committed to introduce it in our manifesto, and similar pledges were made by parties represented on - Speech Link