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Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) In the new system, after the minimum six-month initial period at the start of a new tenancy, either party - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Most banks require six-month minimum tenancies to lend in the first place. - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) nationwide county court digitisation scheme will produce dramatic improvements any decade soon is probably remote - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) Surely, to link increases to CPI or median wage growth would be fairer and transparent, and would obviate - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) I look forward to working with noble Lords during the passage of this important Bill. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Many of the jobs that people do on the minimum wage are really difficult, and they have to learn to do - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage - Speech Link
3: Lord Lingfield (Con - Life peer) finding, even among the best colleges, one that can provide more than a couple out of the 13 is very remote - Speech Link
4: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) This involves working eight to 12 hours a week in real work situations, paid at a living wage, which - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) continue down this path of ignoring where the demand is where you can generate a better than living wage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) The recent Hidden Hardship report noted that disadvantaged young people in remote rural areas are 50% - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) I was paid a poverty wage—£12 a week. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) That is why we have to deal with low pay, and make every effort to increase the minimum wage and the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We would boost wages by removing the minimum wage bands and expanding the remit of the Low Pay Commission.We - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of someone working full-time on that wage. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Transport System: Failings - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) users and could simplify the railway, making it cheaper to run.The Bill gets decisions away from a remote - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) There are smart motorways with cameras not working and no safety lanes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) The care worker who is on the minimum wage—if that—depends on a car to do her job. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) will need to be in line with those of nurses and teachers, rather than in line with private sector wage - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Enfield, Southgate) The costs of running hospice services, including energy bills and the cost of paying staff a fair wage - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) However, that funding should be guaranteed for a minimum of three years to enable those hospices to plan - Speech Link
3: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) Does she agree that staff are funded even less and are on the minimum wage? - Speech Link
4: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) receive, and the disparity in funding is causing feels unfair, particularly when costs, especially wage - Speech Link
5: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) As such, Rainbows is currently paying for remote support from a consultant in another region.Rainbows - Speech Link


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