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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) To continue this outstanding—“gold”—work, the university needs adequate funding and the students need - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) be step-free by 1 January 2020. - Speech Link
3: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) For the students, what is on offer is life-changing. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) In 2021, 5,300 students started T-levels, and one-third dropped out, compared with one-fifth dropping - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) In 2021, 250,000 students entered university, while fewer than a quarter of that figure took on apprenticeships - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Skills for Jobs White Paper, published in January 2021, is the blueprint for our reforms. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Over 1 million deaths were successfully registered under provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The Government claim that NUAR will deliver significant benefits to taxpayers, reduce disruption and - Speech Link
3: None the amounts of the fees, including provision for the amount of a fee to be an amount which is intended - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) that 97% of English language students were cheating, a determination that cost the students their right - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Our modelling suggests that the measures in this Bill will reduce smoking rates among 14 to 30-year-olds - Speech Link
2: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) is admitted to hospital due to smoking. - Speech Link
3: Mark Eastwood (Con - Dewsbury) Late last year, a study by Brunel University London revealed that if half the number of adult smokers - Speech Link
4: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) For the libertarians, it will in fact help to reduce the size and cost of the state. - Speech Link
5: None charging of fees under or by virtue of the Act. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) sector net debt excluding the Bank of England is due to fall in the fourth and fifth year of the forecast - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) to reduce the reaction burdens placed on police officers due to data protection requirements.As I have - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) getting back to pre-covid levels would save taxpayers £20 billion a year. - Speech Link
4: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) One part of the solution has to be to reduce creditors’ reliance on bailiffs, whose fees, which rose - Speech Link
5: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Average post-tax earnings at the start of this year are £1,870 lower than at the start of 2021, according - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) 50,000 a year between 2021 and 2022. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) with her legal fees but drags his feet when it comes to helping the poor victims of this scandal? - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) It is not acceptable that touring musicians are now waiting up to a year to be paid due to HMRC’s failings.Musicians - Speech Link
4: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) Now, they can use the UCAS system to look for apprenticeships at the same level as university courses - Speech Link
5: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) The lower Thames crossing, for which £300 million has been spent on planning fees, needs to happen. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gale (Lab - Life peer) market due to unpaid care. - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) That goes for employment tribunal fees too. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Casey of Blackstock (XB - Life peer) , and Sarah Everard, murdered in March 2021.This was the ninth year that the honourable Member for Birmingham - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) She was finally awarded an honorary fellowship by the university that year. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) to tuition fees to be repaid by students via the loan system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) They pay high fees and enable fees for UK students to be lower than they otherwise would be. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) Research by London Economics found that the estimated total benefit to the UK economy from 2021-22 first-year - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) on the 2021-22 academic year, that the economic footprint of higher education providers contributed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) They are supported with free prescriptions, do not have to pay tuition fees and get the game-changing - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) That is why the SNP is calling on the Chancellor to reduce the rate of VAT for the tourism and hospitality - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) UK were not even offering a computer science GCSE in 2021, and the number of 14 to 19-year-old students - Speech Link
4: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham) There have been assessments that the UK has paid £24 billion since 2020 to cover the costs of non-working - Speech Link
5: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Is this why he is cancelling the alcohol duty rise due next year, as he has been told that he has lost - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) service for students; and seafaring crews on collectively agreed terms and conditions being replaced - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) need to reduce labour costs—what the legislation calls “some other substantial reason” for the dismissal - Speech Link
3: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, while the nation applauded our essential workers, British Gas, unbelievably, - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) Furthermore, the Government have just begun a consultation on reintroducing fees for those who wish to - Speech Link