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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Then, lo and behold, there was a Conservative Party submission to the House of Lords Democracy and Digital - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The person who is signing has to say, “By the way, I may support this local campaign or petition, but - Speech Link
3: None Criticisms have been widely reported by local, national and specialist media, including Computer Weekly - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) There are no local community organisations or civil society organisations to help them, and therefore - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None vital, especially in rural areas, so that affordable housing can be retained for the benefit of the local - Speech Link
2: None determined, as the Minister said that they were, to create commonhold as part of a property-owning democracy—the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) interest to the noble Earl, Lord Devon, as a serf, or at least somebody who is rather pleased that democracy - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) Nobody wants to see local shops, amenities and community hubs closing as an unintended consequence of - Speech Link
5: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is a big issue that we need to address, because it will not be dealt with by a local authority. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Paying Polluters: UN Report - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) investment agreements—sometimes called stabilisation clauses—that forbid the hearing of disputes in local - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Given the pressure that Colombia is under in its transition to full democracy and peace, would the money - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) for by investors was to ensure they had confidence, particularly when there was no confidence in the local - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) At the local level, local planning authorities must have the central role, despite cuts in planning department - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) independent and respected judiciary, applying the rule of law, is fundamental to the operation of our democracy - Speech Link
3: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Trust in our democracy depends on it. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) At local level, it is vital that local authorities can respond to the dual challenge of delivering housing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) on the loss of his father.A report from the Jo Cox Foundation called the abuse of MPs a “threat to democracy - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that the defending democracy taskforce, headed by the Minister for Security, is looking - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) That is a huge achievement and we should praise his local police force for its part in it. - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) The Conservatives have cut 21,000 police officers, decimating our local neighbourhood teams. - Speech Link
5: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Even in Warwick, my little local district council has built more than Andy Street. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) We should not be responsible for tying the hands of any body, such as a local authority, that might be - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) But reducing South Africa to a wasteland would lead not to a nonracial democracy but to more oppression - Speech Link
3: None those views with the threat of legal redress belongs in a totalitarian regime, not in a constitutional democracy - Speech Link
4: None to local authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of AI on democracy. - Speech Link
2: Tom Randall (Con - Gedling) I am eager to see that this money is spent according to local wishes. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The story of Labour in local government is one of working people paying the price. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) that the Secretary of State will write it, is simply not acceptable in terms of basic parliamentary democracy - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is widely respected by the police, local authorities and the surveillance industry in general … It - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We are supporting them by almost doubling funding for local stop-smoking services. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Yet again, she reminds us what a brilliant local constituency MP she is. - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) There are 356,000 people in his local area on NHS waiting lists. - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) It was not a unanimous opinion, and I respect those who did not agree, but in a democracy, the majority - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsLords Handsard - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None stand up for it, and that has for generations lectured the party to which I belong on the importance of democracy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) fact that the Tory Government are abusing not just human rights, and not just the rule of law, but democracy - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) It does not have a long tradition of democracy. - Speech Link