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Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) All of these depend on skills.My belief in the importance of skills is partly personal. - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) which I draw attention relates to fulfilling the second requirement of the Motion, which is for our personal - Speech Link
3: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) independence payments. - Speech Link
4: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) to the skills debate, whether through the provision of training, the establishment of schools or the payment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) with £2.4 billion of annual spending, an average boost of 10% for the sustainable farming incentive payment - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) This Government firmly respect the role and the independence of the ICJ. - Speech Link
3: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) that anyone who threatens the ICC simply for doing its job is undermining the very impartiality and independence - Speech Link
4: Karl Turner (Lab - Kingston upon Hull East) There were 36 failed personal protective equipment contracts during the pandemic, costing over £1 billion - Speech Link
5: Robert Courts (Con - Witney) Specifically on prevention and recoveries, up to 30 September 2023, HMRC had prevented the payment, or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 08 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Due to the significant real-terms increases to the personal allowance, it is estimated that 1.8 million - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Thanks to the personal allowance, almost a quarter of individuals will not pay income tax at all in 2024 - Speech Link
3: None independent monetary policy setting the base rate and forecasting inflation is important, but so too was the independence - Speech Link
4: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) They are likely to see fewer child poverty interventions such as the Scottish child payment, an SNP initiative - Speech Link
5: None industries of the future, bring down bills for households and businesses, and give us energy security and independence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Personnel Data Breach - Wed 08 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of Defence has identified indications that a malign actor gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) categorically—if they do incur any additional costs or miscellaneous expenses as a result of any late payment - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We do not stop there: if we judge that there is a threat to the security and independence of the UK’s - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Disability Reform - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None Speaker, I shall make a Statement on the consultation we are launching today on the changes to the personal - Speech Link
2: None It has been more than a decade since the introduction of the personal independence payment. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Do people risk losing their benefits and their personal care from family or friends at the same time? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) website yesterday quoted one 71 year-old recipient, who said that for her PIP is about“maintaining independence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None under sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b), and(b) for BSRS adjudicators to be required to exercise operational independence - Speech Link
2: None If an application for an order is successful, the tribunal has the power to order that payment is made - Speech Link
3: None The RTM company was formed as a result, but at great personal financial cost to a number of residents - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Alister Jack (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) The SNP has consistently proposed abandoning our nuclear deterrent, including in its most recent independence - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Member: the SNP gave up governing in Scotland a long time ago thanks to its continued obsession with independence - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) whoever is elected to replace Humza Yousaf as First Minister will still have the same obsession with independence - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Ultimately, he is not worried about any of this, because as we all remember, he has his very own personal - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It was this Government who, just this winter, provided double the winter fuel payment to support pensioners - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World ME Day - Wed 01 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sajid Javid (Con - Bromsgrove) For me, the fight against that illness was not just an important policy area but simply very personal - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) They have told me stories about personal independence payment assessments as well, which do not meet - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) Those amendments go some way, although a limited way, to ensuring the independence of advocates. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (XB - Life peer) It would powerfully reflect the status and credibility of the IBCA, underlining its independence. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) That is not retrospective payment. - Speech Link
4: None if a payment under that scheme is made to the person’s personal representatives (in their capacity as - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) I just want to put on record, in Committee, the Democratic Unionist party’s sincere and personal appreciation - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We should legislate in a way that respects the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We take these matters and the independence of the judiciary very seriously. - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) I am not in a position to do anything more, but I thank the Minister for his assurances on independence - Speech Link
5: None quash a conviction after all these years and then to have delays, beyond a reasonable time, in the payment - Speech Link