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Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) Critically, during this period, homes built for social rent—defined as 65% or less of market rent—fell - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) During our short lifetimes, we have seen inequality grow and poverty deepen.Despite our protests, we - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Homes for all that release the constraints of poverty. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) To put this into perspective, the overall number of new homes during this period has been 2.5 million.Local - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Educational Trips and Exchanges - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) opportunity to undertake creative study and work abroad is limited to students on a course with a mandatory period - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) career and, at Hartridge High School in Newport, a challenging demographic of prior low attainment and poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Heaton-Harris (Con - Daventry) I would like to think that it will continue strongly across the next spending review period. - Speech Link
2: Chris Heaton-Harris (Con - Daventry) In the meantime, we have put in place a grace period arrangement until the end of 2025, which supports - Speech Link
3: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) He was a tireless campaigner against poverty and a champion for his constituents.Mr Speaker, I know that - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) He chaired an all-party parliamentary inquiry 10 years ago on food poverty, and food bank use has increased - Speech Link
5: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) The effect of all that is that 1.1 million fewer people are living in absolute poverty than when the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None an assured tenancy under which the tenant becomes entitled to possession of the premises within the period - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) A significant number live on or near the poverty line and struggle to make ends meet. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) A staggering quarter of renting households are living in fuel poverty today, so urgent action is essential - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) decade.In my speech at Lancaster House in January, I warned that we were entering a much more dangerous period - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) but I mentioned £4 billion that we will now invest in their accommodation and conditions over this period - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) has taken some time to replace Trident, and in particular the submarines, is that there was a short period - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Is it not as important to wage war on poverty at home as it is to prepare for war abroad? - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) The reassurance of the idea that there is a period of time leading up to 2.5%, with the first increase - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) enfranchising leaseholders would not pay development value if they guaranteed that they would not develop for a period - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) clarify a number of things.It is true that there are some people who own lease- hold flats who are not poverty - Speech Link
3: Lord Howard of Rising (Con - Life peer) You are just deferring your payment over a period. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) We could explore how marriage value for charities might be phased out over a period of some decades, - Speech Link
5: None used for future value—the value of my flat in 80 years—assume that there is no inflation over that period - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) In the US, it is 125% of federal poverty guidelines, which means in real terms that it is pretty similar - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) £62,500 we currently have for the savings route held for 6 months proves I can support us during this period - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) However, over the same period, direct patient care staff increased by 1,195 full-time equivalents. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) she accept the overwhelming evidence that current levels of ill health reflect 14 years of escalating poverty - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We are spending more than £8 billion in this spending review period on additional elective activity, - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) million for its operational capital budget in 2023-24, with over £118 million for this spending review period - Speech Link
5: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) and alcohol strategy commits more than half a billion pounds of new funding over the spending review period - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) 6 million households in the UK will be in fuel poverty. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is right to highlight fuel poverty. - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) , with 36% in fuel poverty according to the most recent data. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) He mentioned what it is like to live in fuel poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) with upward forces bringing the rise in February and March to 0.2%, down from 1.1% since a similar period - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) is why as inflation comes down to the 2% target we are continuing to provide support for the 2024-25 period - Speech Link