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Lords Chamber
Foetal Sentience Committee Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) purposes of transparency, saying what the committee has done and giving an account of any income or expenditure - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It follows close on the heels of an effort during the Public Order Bill to enable protests on the doorstep - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) 12 weeks, with many Parliaments greatly influenced by the questions of sentience and pain.In other areas - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) This legislation reflects that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs sought independent - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) concluded that her commitment had not been met and rural areas were losing out. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tutoring Provision - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) The Sutton Trust, Public First, the Education Endowment Foundation and others have all looked at it. - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) The children look forward to seeing their tutors.”In the past, a disadvantaged but rural community such - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) invited me, and it was obviously a pleasure to speak to the fine people of Strangford and surrounding areas - Speech Link
4: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Friend agree that expenditure should be focused on initiatives like this programme, as opposed to the - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) This year, many schools, especially those in the poorest areas, have used up almost all of their pupil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) Just to be absolutely clear, the Scottish Government’s total departmental expenditure limit is growing - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) That is not how the rural economy works. - Speech Link
3: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) it is right for the industry to work out how it will increase provision and adapt the criteria for rural - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Strategy and Policy Statement for Energy Policy in Great Britain - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) The Secretary of State, Ofgem and the National Energy System Operator —a new independent public corporation - Speech Link
2: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) Indeed, other areas bear little relationship to reality; for example, the Government reaffirm their commitment - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) billion in the energy sector in the period to 2030”.It would be good to know what level of Government expenditure - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) offshore impacts of transmission were to be considered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
5: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) should be balanced in line with their duties.In total, we received 140 unique responses to the SPS public - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) It achieves this by requiring the contracting body to publish its data, demonstrating how these areas - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) The areas of the review are strikingly close to those I seek to address with the Bill, so I am incredibly - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Published in June 2021, the NPPS argued that the “huge power” of public procurement expenditure“must - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) There is no need to increase public expenditure to unblock the system—just allow planning departments - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) debate on social housing, in which the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner of Kimble, made his maiden speech, on rural - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Best, often refers, rightly, to the disparities of housing availability in rural - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) I thought the point he made about the public expenditure benefit of home ownership because it reduces - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) Departmental expenditure limits have been left largely unchanged. - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) They are a vital part of those local economies, which are often in rural areas where there are limited - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) They are also contributing to the pressures on other areas of our public services.The Government want - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) areas such as Devon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I urge the Government to have another look at the importance of public transport in rural areas to get - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) I will say something about the cost of living relief for rural areas such as Mid Norfolk, and something - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) harms are, for once, less likely than men to discuss the issue or seek help with it.Higher gambling expenditure - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rock (Con - Life peer) I was struck by how women are the backbone of our rural communities. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Moyo (Con - Life peer) In doing so, I will focus on progress in areas of corporate leadership. - Speech Link