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Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) estimates, 2.8 million people is roughly equivalent to the populations of Stoke-on-Trent, Middlesbrough, Coventry - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) In its report UK Poverty 2024 from a couple of weeks ago, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation tells us that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Knife and Sword Ban - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) We must all acknowledge that some of this is about wider social problems such as poverty and the lack - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) As I will mention, there is an issue around poverty and deprivation. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Friend the Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) and to be the last Back-Bench contributor to this - Speech Link
4: Paul Bristow (Con - Peterborough) Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana)? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) far from perfect.According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, there are 14.5 million people living in poverty - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) raised important points. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Friend the Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) rightly highlighted the lack of scrutiny that we - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) for falling through the cracks of a welfare system that is creaking under the strain of widespread poverty - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) fact that rough sleeping is a symptom of other failures, particularly Government failures on housing, poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) When 6 million people live in fuel poverty and when 4,700 people died last winter as a result of living - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Record bills for my Coventry South constituents have meant record profits for fossil fuel giants.Eye-watering - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) At a time when, as we have heard, 6 million families in the UK are living in fuel poverty this winter - Speech Link
4: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) Friend the Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) pointed out strongly that this Bill, contrary to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Sector Pay 2024-25 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) The key workers that keep this country going are being driven into poverty by this Government. - Speech Link
2: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) vital services to the bone, and declining real wages have forced many who deliver those services into poverty - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) While costs have soared, wages have failed to keep up, leaving workers in Coventry South and across the - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) According to a Bevan Foundation report on poverty in Arfon, which I commissioned and published last August - Speech Link
5: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) Friend the Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) said that people who can afford to pay should be - Speech Link


Petitions
Local Government Funding and Food Voucher Provision - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None are a difficult time for families who are struggling to afford to feed their children; further that Coventry - Speech Link
2: None councils so that they can maintain services including cost-of-living support, and specifically for Coventry - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free School Meals: Children with SEND - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) I represent a constituency with one of the highest rates of child poverty in the entire country, and - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) With 4 million children living in poverty, including more than a third of children in Coventry South, - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Friend, other Members here and I were elected on a manifesto that pledged to poverty-proof schools. - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Friends the Members for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) and for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery), and from colleagues - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Members for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana), for Somerton and Frome (Sarah Dyke), for Strangford (Jim - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Immigration (Health Charge) (amendment) Order 2023 (First sitting) - Wed 10 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) take steps to ensure that the most vulnerable migrants are adequately protected from the threat of poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Funding and Food Voucher Provision - Tue 19 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) are a difficult time for families who are struggling to afford to feed their children; further that Coventry - Speech Link