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Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) If we are doing our job, year in and year out, we learn about child poverty, unemployment and employment - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) We are living through a period of increased and increasing mistrust of politics and politicians. - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) 5 million households will still be exposed to rising interest rates over the coming period. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Sir David Davis) for a period, so this is now our third - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sanctions - Fri 24 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) often, the town that I am proud to call home is recognised as being at the sharp end of statistics for poverty - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) I have had the pleasure of serving over the past four years, as we have gone through an incredible period - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Disabled People on Benefits: EHRC Investigation - Thu 23 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) conditions, are often unfairly sanctioned, go through much deeper stress and sometimes end up in desperate poverty - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Chair of Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights.As we are about to go into a general election period - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Healthy Start - Wed 22 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) , particularly child poverty.” - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) They mentioned early years nutrition and the important part that that period plays in establishing the - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) In my constituency of Stretford and Urmston, one child in five lives in poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Fuel and extreme fuel poverty across the highlands and islands is higher than anywhere else in the UK - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) What estimate she has made of the number of households that were in fuel poverty in winter 2023-24. - Speech Link
3: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) The policy on fuel poverty is devolved. - Speech Link
4: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool, Walton) overseen the doubling of energy bills since 2021 and the collapse of 30 energy companies in the same period - Speech Link
5: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) The End Fuel Poverty Coalition has stated that the crisis could mean that young households spend years - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Except clauses 1 to 4, 12 and 13, and 19) - Tue 21 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) could have copied the Scottish child payment in Scotland, which has lifted 100,000 children out of poverty - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) bought and sold, the Exchequer is expected to raise an additional £690 million in revenue over that period - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) will be a permanently higher level of income as a result of this change after the end of the forecast period - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) 24%, the OBR estimates that this costing will have a positive impact beyond the current forecasting period - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Carer’s Allowance - Tue 21 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) Does the Minister acknowledge that unpaid carers are disproportionately affected by poverty? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (XB - Life peer) The responsibility of paying something like £1,500 back in a short period is more than stressful; it - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 21 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) could have copied the Scottish child payment in Scotland, which has lifted 100,000 children out of poverty - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) bought and sold, the Exchequer is expected to raise an additional £690 million in revenue over that period - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) will be a permanently higher level of income as a result of this change after the end of the forecast period - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) 24%, the OBR estimates that this costing will have a positive impact beyond the current forecasting period - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill
Report stage - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) amendment 1, page 1, line 22, leave out from “force” to end of line 23 and insert—“at the end of the period - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) They provide for this to be a period of four months after the Bill has received Royal Assent. - Speech Link
3: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) that was reformed in the Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Act 2022, where the six-month period - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) spends the last year of their life in poverty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 17 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) tirelessly, as many noble Lords have mentioned, in international development, promoting humanitarian aid, poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Haselhurst (Con - Life peer) had the honour of being the chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association for a three-year period - Speech Link