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Lords Chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 - Wed 15 Dec 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) This includes: extending regulations on face coverings to make them mandatory in most indoor public settings - Speech Link
2: None Of the two SIs against which I have put down amendments, one is about mandatory face masks and the other - Speech Link
3: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) I will first deal with extending the mandatory wearing of face masks. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) possible to make sure that schools, colleges and universities are never shut again? - Speech Link
5: None at some schools and colleges. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Many of my constituents have been wearing masks in plenty of situations, indoors and out, for a long - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) We should never have stopped wearing masks on public transport and in shops to keep shop workers safe - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) among young people—there has been a rise in self-harm in secondary schools. - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) I have been wearing masks in shops and on public transport because I think that is a respectful thing - Speech Link
5: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Masks sound innocuous in their own right, but they send a signal across society, including in schools - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) That causes all sorts of tensions with the shop assistants and with other people wearing face masks, - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) confusion across schools, colleges and universities. - Speech Link
3: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) masks on public transport, in shops and in schools. - Speech Link
4: Ben Spencer (CON - Runnymede and Weybridge) schools because of omicron and our children having to wear face masks at disproportionately high rates - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19 Update - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Rosena Allin-Khan (LAB - Tooting) deserve.If masks had been mandatory, it would have been harder for this new variant to spread. - Speech Link
2: Peter Kyle (LAB - Hove) I take no pleasure in advising the Secretary of State to make children wear masks in classrooms. - Speech Link
3: Alun Cairns (CON - Vale of Glamorgan) , but when he reviews, as more data becomes available, the wearing of face masks and the additional restrictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
School-based Counselling Services - Tue 09 Nov 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Nicholas Brown (IND - Newcastle upon Tyne East) Measures taken to fight covid, such as the widespread wearing of face masks, particularly in the classroom - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (CON - Chatham and Aylesford) should be mandatory in schools. - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) mandatory and she did not indicate any plan to make mental health services mandatory. - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) certainly make it mandatory for schools to have school-based counselling —has to have links into local - Speech Link
5: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) I commend the excellent work undertaken in all our schools and colleges. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Health and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)
Committee stage: 19th sitting - Wed 27 Oct 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) I have been sitting in the Chamber for three hours now, and I struggle with wearing a mask for a specific - Speech Link
2: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) know not, with all power vested in the Secretary of State and some promise of further detail in secondary - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) face of demands from health. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges recommends that trusts should take steps to make available to the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19 - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None outdoors where possible; trying to let in fresh air if we need to be indoors; and wearing a face mask - Speech Link
2: None mandating face coverings in certain settings; and, while we are not going ahead with mandatory vaccine-only - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) wearing face coverings? - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) particularly about mandatory masks. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, I make no apology for pursuing the issue of wearing masks and face coverings, because I feel - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 25 Jun 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (CB - Life peer) Many of the problems that people face in their constituencies, and I face in my life, did not come from - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Chamber, when we are not speaking, should be wearing face masks. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) and girls, including in our schools, colleges and universities. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB - Life peer) to access health promotion and ill-health services digitally, face-to-face and sometimes in hospital - Speech Link
5: Baroness Massey of Darwen (LAB - Life peer) They were from primary and secondary schools, and youth organisations, discussing what they would like - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) We now have face masks to add to the problem, which we find all over the pavements. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Lords wearing them—the blue masks that some noble Lords are wearing today in your Lordships’ House are - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Lords—she has been having conversations on Twitter—that if you are now wearing a blue plastic face mask - Speech Link
4: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) the streets, at bus stops, outside schools and colleges and so on. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Menopausal Symptoms: Support - Wed 09 Jun 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Mr Speaker has stated that masks should be worn in Westminster Hall, unless you are speaking. - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) on the menopause, which is slowly being incorporated into the curriculum in secondary schools, is a - Speech Link
3: Nadine Dorries (CON - Mid Bedfordshire) about the menopause and wearing heavy clothing. - Speech Link
4: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Together, those of us in this room and in Parliament can make a change. - Speech Link