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Commons Chamber
Social Media Access in Prisons - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Why am I here talking about social media in prisons? - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Her campaign on access to social media is brave. - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) With phones come social media. I do not need to tell hon. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) media companies to have the content taken down. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pupil Mental Health, Well-being and Development - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) to measure and track children’s talking and understanding of words in the same way that we do with literacy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) colleges on how best to implement learning about emotional health—in other words, what I call emotional literacy - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) One of my very average teachers was doing a literacy lesson when the Artsmark inspector came, so I was - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Many noble Lords referenced social media and phones. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) for Meon Valley set out at the beginning of the debate, has been a largely unsung success story for literacy - Speech Link


Petitions
Ulverston Library - Mon 19 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None that the Ulverston library offers a vital service to a local people from lending books to supporting literacy - Speech Link
2: None In addition, they provide practical help and guidance, including for literacy, digital skills, health - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) We know how to take this performance approach, but alongside numeracy and literacy we need data literacy - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We need to take action on digital literacy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I also thank her colleagues who posted that on social media. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend will know that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport recently reported on the BBC - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend is right to draw attention to our nation’s success in climbing the international literacy tables - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) and quite often that permission to do serious physical harm and the motivation for it start on social media - Speech Link
5: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Across Europe, farmers are leading protests that have been barely reported in our media. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) We will see what happens in the media debate. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) With the arts declining by 40% at GCSE and no government plan to improve literacy, oracy, creativity - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) This has even penetrated the London-centric mainstream media bubble. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) Berkeley of Knighton, the noble Baroness, Lady Rebuck, and others who rightly mentioned the importance of literacy - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None Adding “citizen” would, as the News Media Association says, give the CMA an additional duty to further - Speech Link
2: None What if digital literacy programmes or information for new parents becomes an area in which a single - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) sustainability and more explicitly target anticompetitive conduct that harms media plurality.It could - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Consumer benefits are broad, as has been observed; they can include economic growth, innovation, media - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) improving levels of media literacy among audiences in the period covered by the plan, which must be - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) literacy and the demands for consultation on media changes. - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) pursuing that media literacy requirement. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) For example, a lot of work has been done on producing religious literacy materials, including a FORB - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Muslims and have been openly declared as “wajibul qatl”, or “deserving to be killed”, in the Pakistan media - Speech Link