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Lords Chamber
Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None I have long said that the payment does not make sense. - Speech Link
2: None My personal view is that winter fuel payments could have been kept universal but been taxed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Again and again, we see this conflation between the public need for economy and people’s personal morality - Speech Link
4: None Depending on age, attendance allowance, personal independence payment and disability living allowance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Safety and Resilience - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) As well as the question of resources, however, there is the question of independence. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) The watchword has to be independence, of both inspection and regulation. - Speech Link
3: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab - Penrith and Solway) to deliver and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs struggles to implement its new payment - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I have personal experience of working in a local authority that commissioned a school; we discovered - Speech Link
5: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David Simmonds), talked about personal evacuation plans, or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff East) investing in home-grown energy to grow the economy, create jobs, boost skills and strengthen our energy independence - Speech Link
2: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff East) the Crown Estate will leverage up to £60 billion of private investment into the UK’s drive for energy independence - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond and Northallerton) We protected the winter fuel payment, and we gave pensioners cost of living benefits. - Speech Link
4: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) If the Prime Minister were a pensioner earning £11,350 this year and receiving no winter fuel payment - Speech Link
5: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) Will the Prime Minister apologise to my shivering constituents for his personal choice, and will he reverse - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 05 Sep 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) is the solution”, but I take the point that the Minister made earlier on about HMT intervention and independence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Each wears the independence cloak in a different manner: some regulators, despite claiming independence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) Therefore, you cannot hold the central bank to account, because of its independence, in the same way - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) The amendment seeks to restrain excessive risk-taking by imposing possible personal penalties on bank - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) That is the point—in the absence of it, who knows whether the management concerned will bear any personal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
2nd reading - Thu 05 Sep 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Friend, and I will come on to that point.There will be a vote next week on the winter fuel payment—I - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Member for Eastleigh (Liz Jarvis), who used her personal experience to speak of her pleasure and pride - Speech Link
3: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) She also drew on her own personal experience to help others. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) How will the establishment of GB Energy impact the independence of GB Nuclear? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 05 Sep 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) My constituents are desperate with worry about Labour’s planned removal of the winter fuel payment from - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We are roaring ahead with our plans for energy independence in order to make us a clean-energy super- - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I know that it is a personal commitment of his to ensure that those affected have justice and compensation - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We support young people being able to get the independence that they need through driving. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Responsibility Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 04 Sep 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) We know the heavy burden that our constituents continue to feel in their pockets and their personal finances - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) were to ask the 80% of pensioners on these islands who are about to be stripped of their winter fuel payment - Speech Link
3: None In this place, Alexander will perhaps be best remembered for his work promoting the independence of Somaliland - Speech Link
4: Fred Thomas (Lab - Plymouth Moor View) That represents a series of personal tragedies for the patients affected. - Speech Link
5: None I learned the true value of service, and acquired a continuing and personal respect for the dedication - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) excellent team of officials, some of whom are in the Box today.Labour plans to end the winter fuel payment - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) A woman called Lesley told Age Scotland that the winter fuel payment“is literally a life saver for us - Speech Link
3: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) I know it has not always been easy and sometimes it has been a lonely path, so I offer my personal congratulations - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) committed to the necessary transition to renewable energy, which will lead to cheaper energy, energy independence - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) In my constituency around 17,000 pensioners are expected to lose their winter fuel payment this year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 03 Sep 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Noah Law (Lab - St Austell and Newquay) Workers and pensioners just above the personal allowance threshold have already borne much of the brunt - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) the transition away from fossil fuels to clean, home-grown power, and it will boost Britain’s energy independence - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) In changing the eligibility for the winter fuel payment, how will my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Before I became a Member of Parliament I was an economist at the Bank of England and I respect the independence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crown Estate Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 02 Sep 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Ed Davey has said that the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment is Labour’s first mistake. - Speech Link
2: Lord Turnbull (XB - Life peer) Monarch—I suppose that was George III—gave up the hereditary revenues in return for a guaranteed annual payment - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) Of course, this is not the Crown in any personal sense but it raises the issue of why any body—any institution - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) This need not impinge in any way on the independence of the commissioners’ decision-making. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) two bishops to persuade her to give up the island, plus three valuable manors, in return for a cash payment - Speech Link