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Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) They have had to be—forging a livelihood in often remote and weather-beaten locations, feeding the people - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) We need both a degree of flexibility to account for individual circumstances and to maintain a minimum - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) People who were poor to start off with and were working at below the living wage are now earning even - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) We have had real problems in the last few years: post Brexit, post pandemic and with the minimum wage - Speech Link
5: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) There is no doubt that farming is not an easy job, with long hours in remote rural areas. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Restaurant in Braunton.Some of the challenges facing the sector are not always obvious, particularly in remote - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Too many of the sums that we do up here rely on a 35-hour working week. - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) sector and the unique identity of these areas.Many businesses have felt the effect of the national minimum - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) Members around the Chamber —of the national minimum wage. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) when the energy sector, so vital to a broad-based, developed economy like Scotland’s, is subject to remote - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) There are even some cases of seafarers working in the offshore wind sector being paid below the minimum - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) That is the minimum standard required to replace fossil fuel boilers with low-carbon heating such as - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Even from his remote prison cell, he persisted in advocating for the rights of the Russian people.No - Speech Link
2: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) Government having, and what diplomatic efforts are they making, with other NATO members that do not pay the minimum - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We are working at pace on working up all options, but I can confirm that as and when action is taken, - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) sanctions, but we will continue to do everything we can to ensure that he is deprived of the ability to wage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Management Culture - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) for below the minimum wage. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) He knew, for example, that Fujitsu had remote access to live Horizon terminals, and he shared a host - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Who, for goodness’ sake, would take on a role in a post office for less than the minimum wage—and, my - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Dentistry: Recovery and Reform - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) long-term ambition: our new patient premium will be available from next month.We are also increasing the minimum - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) million, the new patient bonus, the measures to get dentists into areas that do not have them and the minimum - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) I am an apprentice and get paid minimum wage and cannot afford a private dentist.”Others spoke of the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) There are specific anti-competitive practices, such as wage and price fixing, which is currently subject - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, said, the near-monopoly position of some companies means that wage - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The consultation requirements are minimum requirements. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Early Years Education - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) educate a young child has widened every year, accelerated by inflation, the cost of living increases and minimum - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) years practitioners.Families continue to grapple with the challenge of balancing childcare alongside remote - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) We need working parents to be able to juggle work and their home life. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Councils: Funding - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) I say that as an MP who represents a remote island community with its own unitary authority, the Council - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) That irresponsible move saw a minimum shortfall of £24 million per year, and delivered a total cut to - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Council but councils right across the country.The other big issue is the increase in the national living wage - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) Member for Oldham West and Royton (Jim McMahon), who referenced our joint working on the LGA. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) The minimum wage was less than £6 an hour, the state pension was less than £100 an hour—no pensioner - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) It should be heading back towards a point where someone working full time on the minimum wage does not - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) We must be clear about the fact that while we need to provide better access to remote working, it cannot - Speech Link
4: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) A £1-an-hour minimum wage increase will not touch the sides for families when food inflation remains - Speech Link
5: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) The increase in the minimum wage, however it has been rebranded, is welcome, although it has not kept - Speech Link