Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) remind the Minister comprise half the population, or to others with protected characteristics under the Equality - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) Reference to the Equality Act 2010 can be found in guidance surrounding the regulations, but it is not - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Lady talked about the Equality Act and set out a number of protected characteristics that prevent workers - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) The Equality Act 2010 sets out a number of protected characteristics, including gender, race, disability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Amendment 155 halves the qualifying period before release eligibility to one and a half years. - Speech Link
2: None The first would reduce the qualifying period from three years to 18 months. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) She of course was an Equality Minister in the not-too-distant past, and I hope that she will be one in - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) He could still be refused even at the end of the 10-year period. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) minimal and this update brings the overseas route back in line with the standard route, allowing for more equality - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) certifications were granted through the overseas path in 2022-23 and the average number granted each year in the period - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The deadline we intend to set is 31 March 2024, which aligns with the end of the period of cover of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) electricity from all sources, including renewables, where the generation cost fell during the same period - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Careful consideration has been given to equality when amending these regulations. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We have extended the early removal scheme from a maximum period of 12 months to 18 months, so that eligible - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) announced the scheme last October, he was explicit that the power would“be used only for a limited period - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) equipment provided at work to people with certain protected characteristics within the meaning of the Equality - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) the productivity plan for local government, the Government highlighted the need to reduce waste on equality - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) That is the longest period of stagnation since the 1950s, with an economy that has shrunk on a per capita - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Productivity, which is closely linked to levels of investment, has stagnated for the longest period in - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) The six-month grace period for the household support fund is not enough. - Speech Link
5: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Over a four-year period, the UK’s GDP growth—at just 1%—is a third of the eurozone, and miles behind - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) to meet emergency demand—I stress “emergency demand”—on more than 97% of the days in that five-year period - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) The Government have gone, in a very short period, from clapping public sector workers to threatening - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) The equality impact assessment quickly brushes over that point, saying that that is not a material consideration - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The issue is all about fairness and equality, but, with respect to the Minister and the Government, they - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) This is about equality for women, and there has been a level of unfairness in the pensions system.It - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) However, at the time the argument against it was cost—that at £12 billion a year over a four-year period - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) For both female and male pensioners, there was a decrease of two percentage points over the same period - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) We held quite a few hearings on the Bill last year, which came after a long period of campaigning for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) My Lords, there being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing Order 55, which provides that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I am very much a believer in equality of arms. - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Is there a period of consultation, or can we go straight to legislation. What is the plan? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) to champion “gender-smart investing” and why it has pledged that 25% of its new investments in the period - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) It was not always like this: the noble Baroness, Lady Gale, will recall her battles in the Labour period - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) the case of girls, it is often about giving them female sanitary products and helping them through period - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) congratulate at the moment, and that is Liz Truss—although certainly not on her record during her brief period - Speech Link