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Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) debate on social housing, in which the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner of Kimble, made his maiden speech, on rural - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) of residential housing shortages; and other areas, such as permitted development. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Best, often refers, rightly, to the disparities of housing availability in rural - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I urge the Government to have another look at the importance of public transport in rural areas to get - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) Unbelievable cost of living inflation has hit rural areas particularly hard. How much harder? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) It was granted £5 million in 2015 to kickstart the works, and it subsequently received £70 million in - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) First, they borrowed our suggestion for a furlough scheme. - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) or the business loan scheme? - Speech Link
4: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) People in rural areas will be particularly pleased to see another freeze on fuel duty, because they rely - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman agree that partnership with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs might be - Speech Link
2: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) The voluntary traffic-light scheme, which was introduced jointly by the UK Government and devolved Administrations - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The Health4Life team runs the Mums, Minis and KickStart programmes for primary school-age children and - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) are investing over £200 million a year on three health food schemes: healthy start, the nursery milk scheme - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) Music mattered—it lit the flame— but the scheme was dropped. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) For example, it runs a scheme called New Views; it is a year-long, in-school playwriting programme for - Speech Link
3: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) Governments—of all parties, to be honest—ignore rural life in the UK. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) was asked earlier today what I hoped for from today’s debate, and I said that I would like to see us kickstart - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
2nd reading - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) today, particularly on subjects such as final-offer arbitration, the alternative disputes resolution scheme - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) There are some important issues here, and areas that should be tightened up and improved. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) By doing so, they would kickstart a shift to a more circular economy, reduce waste and protect consumers - Speech Link
4: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) I will go relatively rapidly over a few areas I think are worthy of consideration. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) Millions of residents in hard-to-reach local communities, such as those in distinct rural communities - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Apprenticeship Levy - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Government initiatives such as the skills bootcamp scheme, which works with local employers and local - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I recall a visit that I made to Severn Trent as part of kickstart; I went with Boris Johnson. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Levelling Up - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Friend agree that rural areas across the United Kingdom must be at the core of levelling up? - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) There is no greater champion for levelling up in rural areas than my right hon. Friend. - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) about the importance of rural areas - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Member mentioned, we are funding Leeds in this round for the “Heart of Holbeck” scheme, with almost £16 - Speech Link
5: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) However, my personal thanks goes to Gavin Taylor from the Far East Consortium, who helped me kickstart - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Transport: Zero-emission Vehicles, Drivers and HS2 - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None They are how most people in rural constituencies such as mine access work, education and essential services - Speech Link
2: None Manchester, and I have already spoken to the Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region to kickstart - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) HS2 is costing more because it goes through some very densely populated areas. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Finally, Leeds and the surrounding areas will have one, which will be amazing. - Speech Link
5: Lord McLoughlin (Con - Life peer) They are never without controversy and this scheme certainly was not.I believe that the scheme, as originally - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Zero-emission Vehicles, Drivers and HS2 - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) They are how most people in rural constituencies such as mine access work, education and essential services - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) Friend thinks her road scheme is. - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) If the seaside resorts, industrial towns and rural villages of Lincolnshire are to expand their economies - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) Friend has done on pushing for that scheme. - Speech Link