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Westminster Hall
Disability Benefits - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) to agree with their benefits adviser that, if they try paid work and it does not work out, within a period - Speech Link
2: Justin Tomlinson (Con - North Swindon) By matching the definition in the NHS, we took the period from six months to one year, so we removed - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) the financial support they are entitled to, which allows them to live with dignity.I hold quarterly poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) deep poverty, and an annual increase even on the Government’s preferred measure. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) rather than relative poverty as a measure. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Baroness is right; we do prefer absolute poverty, because relative poverty can also provide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) Over the same period, renewable roles increased by 70%. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) I quoted the ONS figures, which state that, over the period to which they refer, renewable roles increased - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) least it has managed to cut down the methane which, as we know, is 80 times more potent over a 20-year period - Speech Link
4: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In respect of gas, the average carbon intensity of domestic gas produced during the assessment period - Speech Link
5: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) emergency programme to insulate all British homes by 2030, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None The period that the investigation considers spans around 30 years, dating back to the decision that Parliament - Speech Link
2: None The report hinges on the department’s decisions over a narrow period between 2005 and 2007, and on the - Speech Link
3: None We now have 200,000 fewer pensioners in absolute poverty after housing costs than there were in 2010. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I mentioned earlier in the Chamber that we now have 200,000 fewer pensioners in absolute poverty after - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategy and Policy Statement for Energy Policy in Great Britain - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) regulatory functions”,does my noble friend share my concern, particularly for those living in fuel poverty - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) What are the interim arrangements for the period until NESO is up and running if it decides that there - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The SPS makes clear the importance of tackling fuel poverty, as was also raised by the noble Lord, Lord - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) sub-Saharan countries, 4,606 Christians were killed because of their faith during the 2024 reporting period - Speech Link
2: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) It has been estimated that, between 2000 and 2020, over a 20-year period, 62,000 Nigerian Christians - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None assess how long it would be before that cost could be recouped from future profits generated by the poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) The code currently makes no reference to a necessary qualifying period of employment before it becomes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) The period that the investigation considers spans around 30 years, dating back to the decision that Parliament - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) political point about the 2011 Act, and I gently remind her that the ombudsman’s report focuses on the period - Speech Link
3: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) The Government, the DWP, completely co-operated with our report, with our investigation, and over the period - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) The budget has increased by £46.3 billion over the next 10-year period compared with what was set out - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) They need to be where their expertise is needed for the right period of time, and then be moved on for - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) country was more or less continuously at war, with relatively small intervals of peace—there was a period - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) As we are entering a period of global uncertainty, it is concerning to read in the PAC report that there - Speech Link
5: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) Have they seen pensioner poverty and fuel poverty in action? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) was also clear that we are forecasting £2 billion of total savings over the current spending review period - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) To take just one four-week period from Christmas, 65% of the delays in that period were down not to the - Speech Link
3: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) tell the House when the Department plans to announce which stations have been successful in control period - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) We have been clear that that money will come over a seven-year period, and we will shortly publish guidance - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) What concerns does he have about the fact that the poverty of local government sometimes gets in the - Speech Link