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Lords Chamber
Personal Independence Payments - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Minister conclude, as I do, that these families would be pushed even further into more severe hardship and poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) policy that they feel it necessary to impose benefits cuts and the threat of sanctions, risking greater poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) In the US, it is 125% of federal poverty guidelines, which means in real terms that it is pretty similar - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) she accept the overwhelming evidence that current levels of ill health reflect 14 years of escalating poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) 6 million households in the UK will be in fuel poverty. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is right to highlight fuel poverty. - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) , with 36% in fuel poverty according to the most recent data. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) He mentioned what it is like to live in fuel poverty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) since, in April 2014, an all-party parliamentary inquiry was launched to investigate hunger and food poverty - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Food poverty is complex, as I have said, and it cannot be tackled through welfare alone. - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Children living in workless households were more than six times more likely to be in absolute poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) every year, yet despite their invaluable role, many caregivers find themselves living on the brink of poverty - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) They are increasingly vulnerable to falling into poverty and financial difficulties. - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) I have spoken about carer’s allowance being a poverty payment in need of fundamental reform. - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Most importantly, however, around 34% of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance are still in poverty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Mother Earth Day - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) We are progressing our White Paper commitments, helping to end extreme poverty and address climate change - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund aims to reduce poverty and protect and restore biodiversity in environmentally - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) UN 2021 report recognised that extractive industries have the potential to drive growth and reduce poverty - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None much will be reserved to ensure that children in the UK who are entitled to benefits do not grow up in poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) unsuccessful, to the very sensible set of recommendations made by my noble friend Lady Sherlock.The Child Poverty - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) regulator to go into print is extremely unusual.Of course, we also have Big Brother Watch and the Child Poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Edward Timpson (Con - Eddisbury) some people face greater barriers in accessing palliative care, including those who live alone, in poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parents: Separation - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) neglect.Adults are also deeply and detrimentally affected by family breakdown: it is often a gateway to poverty - Speech Link