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Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) That shows how even a tiny drop in attendance can have long-lasting consequences for our children.The - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) The Bill will not be a magic wand, and it will not undo all the harms caused by covid, but it is a very - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) society.Children’s early speech and language development has also suffered over the past few years, and covid - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) that ended in 2010, to about 10% or 11% in the second half of the decade, up until the point at which covid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Opposition are keen to see the measures in the Bill introduced as quickly as possible, as they are long - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) There have been particular concerns since covid that the training of dogs can often be challenging. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Friend was getting so passionate about this issue that her intervention may have gone on a little too long - Speech Link
4: Kieran Mullan (Con - Crewe and Nantwich) The NFU and others have long called for reform of the legislation, and it is welcome that we now have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Like much of our hospitality industry through covid, pubs were absolutely battered. - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) For my long-term goal, we need to make sure that residents living close to hospitality venues and those - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) through today, and I do not wish to test the patience of the House or colleagues by speaking for too long - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken), who has long championed our capital’s pubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitby (Con - Life peer) The long-term rise of out-of-town and online shopping and of online banking, taken together with the - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Whereas, in the past, retail leases could be for as long as 20 years, they are now expected to be of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) In the face of challenges—such as the rise of online retail and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic—high - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inequalities in Dementia Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) They remain in hospital on average twice as long as people who do not live with the condition. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Occupational therapy can help people to avoid dangerous falls and to live well in their own home for as long - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) We need long-term solutions that reshape social care into a service that is fit for the future and fit - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) That is why Labour will deliver on the NHS long- term workforce plan to train the staff the NHS needs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Whooping Cough - Thu 16 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The Covid-19 vaccination programme showed that using facilities and services that have familiar and trusted - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) As noble Lords will know, we suffered from Covid lockdown and because of the isolation, it went down. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) right hon. and learned Friend’s transport authority to fund the project that he has championed for so long - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) across the rest of the UK, there has been a shortage of minibus drivers, with Brexit and the legacy of covid - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) received over £3.5 million in emergency recovery funding to help maintain services during and after covid - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) shamefully threatened thousands of British Airways workers with fire and rehire, having refused Government covid - Speech Link
5: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) When will the Transport Secretary publish the long-overdue strategic framework for road safety? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) chairs; not buying the right wheelchairs for the right people at the right time; disability hate crime; Covid - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) That sort of positive action is long overdue. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The ONS reported that disabled people in the UK were more likely to die as a result of Covid, and the - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I think that it will go a very long way. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) timescale, they put in place a furlough scheme that saved hundreds of thousands of jobs and got us through covid - Speech Link
2: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) The compensation demanded by the WASPI women is insignificant in that context.The failed covid test and - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) This has gone on for too long. - Speech Link
4: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Minister was the Chancellor who boasted about setting up the furlough scheme in a couple of weeks for the covid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) Spending on grass-roots sports and recreation facilities fell by 47% between 2010 and 2020, when Covid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Nye (Lab - Life peer) The long-awaited government strategy for the sports sector is long on task forces but short on granular - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) The Labour and Co-operative parties have a long history of supporting fans on this issue. - Speech Link