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Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) Thanks.Thankfully, readers of the Racing Post and punters still believe in the timeless Conservative - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) Only today, the front page of the Racing Post shows the results of a special investigation into The Post - Speech Link
3: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) The front page of the Racing Post today made the potential consequences very clear. - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) racing extend a long way, not just into the countryside but into the towns and the licensed betting offices - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) He mentioned the Post Office. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) As we know, their health-wise suffering was different from that of the Post Office staff. - Speech Link
3: Lord Burnett of Maldon (XB - Life peer) I was, of course, in post as Lord Chief Justice then. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) In that case, I quizzed the relevant offices about MAPPA, as it then was, and what was likely to be put - Speech Link
5: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) conviction or post acquittal. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) hospitality; the security team; the amazing teams in the clerks’, Black Rod’s and the Lord Speaker’s offices - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) The transition from basic farm payment support to environmental land management schemes post Brexit, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) We need the ambition to level up across all parts of policy and to climb out of the post-pandemic trough - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Coastal Tourism and Hospitality: Fiscal Support - Thu 22 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) elected, I naively thought that that was just seasonality, but as staycations came back into vogue post - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) It goes into local shops and post offices. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2024 Draft Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling etc.) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) That information should help electors to plan accordingly and return their postal votes via post where - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The Minister outlined clearly that postal votes dropped through electoral offices without an accompanying - Speech Link
3: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) will be necessary to say, for example, on the front door of the electoral office that people must not post - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation Schemes - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) Government, departmental and Post Office capacity is only so large. - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) There are monthly meetings with post office executives. - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We have 11,500 post offices, of which 5,000 are in rural areas and 3,000 are the last shop in the village - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Every day we hear further revelations about the Post Office, and today’s shocking—well, it should be - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) This was a failure of the Post Office, which is an emanation of the state, and it is the duty of the - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) What did the Post Office know, when did it know it, and what did it do with the material before it? - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Lady’s good offices, to look at the support that is available online. - Speech Link
5: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) It is also rather like the Post Office scandal. This is an early warning of a major scandal. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) exception for other countries to be decided at the discretion of Ministers—but it rules out Israel and the post - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) white residents experienced the other side of apartheid because, if you were in a long queue at the post - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) The Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 already gives the Secretary of State powers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) of our intelligence and security services do not act in the best traditions of this country in their offices - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) We should take the chance to consider post-surveillance notification of MPs who have been spied upon, - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) It is not a question of the role or the post the person holds, but their rights as a British citizen. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation Schemes - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) I am at a loss today: another Monday, another Post Office scandal. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) offices will be exonerated and perhaps even compensated. - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) May I ask her about Post Office investigations? - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) sub-postmasters would have been better spent on ensuring that we keep our vital post offices up and - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We should be able both to keep post offices open and to compensate. - Speech Link