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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) I first called for that loophole to be closed when it entered the public consciousness two years ago - Speech Link
2: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) statutory duties to educate children and keep them safe. - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) businesses, yet last year the Office for National Statistics reported that more than 27,000 more businesses closed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Schools still do not brief their pupils on non-university routes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) I thought, “My points must be getting through”—until I realised that what had actually happened was that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) We closed the post-study work route in 2011, reversed that in 2019, and now we are applying the brakes - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) It will not be introduced until next year, but the removal of some of the restrictions on how additional - Speech Link
5: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Since our children will have to go on working until they are 70, they will need to go back to university - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Regeneration: Industrial Areas - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) , although we had a lot of open cast mining and the Consett steelworks had closed in 1984. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Everyone was there—the mayor, the council, businesspeople and all the schools. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) The brownfield presumption will work only with money to help with infrastructure such as roads, schools - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) ensuring that funding does not focus solely on the most successful sectors today but looks ahead as we keep - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) The fact is that transgender people were not really visible at all until after the Act was passed. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) examples in history where progress, open-mindedness and inclusivity seemed to be on the way, but were closed - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) not directly persecute or diminish the rights of LGBT+ people, societal attitudes may do so. - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Can the Minister give us even a hint of whether this Bill will appear at all, or will we have to wait until - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Book Day - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Possibly my favourite novel when growing up was “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Their school has a rewards programme: the children progress from belt to belt until they end up with - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) those words almost exactly 50 years ago.The difficulty is that, because so many local libraries have closed - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Schools supported intensively as partner schools by English hubs outperform non-partner schools by around - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) In Manchester, Stepping Hill Hospital has had an entire out-patient ward closed for months because it - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) On the schools budget, the Department for Education wanted £4 billion a year to build the new schools - Speech Link
3: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) for generations, and to keep people in employment through furlough. - Speech Link
4: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) That is money he would like to spend on dental treatment—his NHS dentist closed—but he cannot. - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) The free hours need to be properly funded, yet so many early years settings have closed. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) that NATO considers provide air cover on Ukraine soil only, to protect the troops on the ground and to keep - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Civilians are being killed and starved as their homes, schools and hospitals are destroyed and their - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) in the introductory essay, the Dutch GreenLeft analyst Richard Wouters concludes that the EU“should keep - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) We have welcomed and sheltered Ukrainians fleeing disaster but closed off routes for those from Sudan - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) That may be a better way in which to do it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) In our investment in expanding medical school places, we are particularly encouraging medical schools - Speech Link
2: Charles Walker (Con - Broxbourne) use the lavatory but was told no one could take her, and was handed a nappy; she waited three hours until - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Since Long Crendon surgery closed during the pandemic, patients in that village and surrounding villages - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) I will of course keep the House updated. - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Over 13,800 schools and colleges now have a trained senior mental health lead. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Of course, supporting British food in schools and hospitals would boost local farmers, but it is very - Speech Link
2: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Hugh Phillips Gower Butcher in my constituency has just closed its abattoir, which is a disaster because - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) that there are post offices, local shops and the critical mass of people needed for village and rural schools - Speech Link
4: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) I urge them to keep going. - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Friend the Member for Croydon North (Steve Reed) said, over 6,000 agricultural businesses have closed - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Myanmar: Health System - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Until very recently her son, Kim Aris—I request of the Minister that the Foreign Secretary should meet - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) health service—a network of volunteers who were part of the National Unity Government, before they were closed - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Security Council on this, and we have consistently demonstrated our ability to use the Security Council to keep - Speech Link