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Lords Chamber
Housing Crisis: Rural and Coastal Communities - Mon 24 Jul 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) In Cornwall now, the price of the average home is 12 times the average wage; people cannot possibly get - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (CON - Life peer) They are complex and multilayered by virtue of the communities’ more remote locations and range from - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (CON - Life peer) The current regulations set the existing minimum standard of EPC E and include a number of exemptions - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (CON - Life peer) This is levelling up; we are working to make it happen, and it is working. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Living: Private rented sector - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) ACORN in Wales commented that rent controls are “the bare minimum response”, but it is pleased to see - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) in taking us to where we are.We know that the biggest factors in determining the cost of living are wage - Speech Link
3: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) We are therefore firmly committed to helping generation rent to become generation buy.We are working - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) I therefore look forward to working with Members from across the House to achieve that goal, which we - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 22 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None excellent work led by Dr Rebekah Tromble, an academic at George Washington University, who convened a working - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We were working on a project on extremism, and having access to CrowdTangle revolutionised our understanding - Speech Link
3: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) A practical difference is that people working in remote areas are often very isolated and find this intrusion - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) At a minimum, they are interesting because they try to broaden the scope of the current offences. - Speech Link
5: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) were claims, which I can repeat here under privilege—that it was using call centres in low-cost, low-wage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) highest qualification, compared to around 15% of adults in France and 36% in Canada.Overall, data on wage - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) , not the mode of tuition.Secondly, I ask the Minister to consider allowing more flexibility in the minimum - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB - Life peer) There is now, post pandemic, more experience of online and remote teaching. - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) Clearly, it is important that a minimum fee level is set, to prevent students being unfairly charged - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) Can the Minister provide the House with greater clarity on the definition of credits, minimum credits - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inshore Industry Fishing Crews: Visas - Thu 25 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Fishermen’s Welfare Alliance has asked for the full implementation of section 43 of the National Minimum - Speech Link
2: David Duguid (CON - Banff and Buchan) These fishing boats operate out of some of the most remote, sparsely populated areas, where unemployment - Speech Link
3: David Duguid (CON - Banff and Buchan) As others have said, we are not denying that there is a need for a minimum level of English, for health - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sub-postmasters and Sub-postmistresses: Remuneration - Tue 23 May 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) He pays above minimum wage, but at minimum wage that would be £1,071 per week, which would be £4,641 - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) People are not coming forward to reopen post offices, so remote communities are subject to being served - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) Friend: remote areas have been hit hard by the declining number of post offices, but we are also seeing - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) For this I get paid £390.90 per month…slightly above the current minimum wage if I opened for 8 hours - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) I am working closely with the Financial Conduct Authority and various banks on those deposit limits, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 May 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Marco Longhi (CON - Dudley North) What steps are the Government taking to secure minimum safe systems for the UK’s food, water, energy - Speech Link
2: Simon Jupp (CON - East Devon) Friend agree that minimum safety levels are absolutely necessary to mitigate the impact of industrial - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) the trade union movement, to encourage union leaders to come back to the table, and to support the minimum - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) is the Minister doing to ensure that they do not have to go out on strike and they can get the fair wage - Speech Link
5: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) What reassurance can be given to constituents in remote rural areas, including some of my constituents - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Care - Thu 30 Mar 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) The minimum wage that the Government have set for care workers employed from overseas is £10.10 per hour - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (LAB - Life peer) Most care workers earn barely above the national minimum wage, which is currently £9.50 and due to rise - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) One in three care workers is paid the minimum wage, or less as their travelling time between clients - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult Social Care - Wed 08 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LDEM - North Shropshire) wage levels have not been matched by funding from central Government to local councils, and therefore - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) We need to redesign the scheme for remote rural locations. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 07 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) £900 cost of living payment for 8 million poorer households, we are increasing the national living wage - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) partly as a result of the doubling of duty on cigarettes and partly owing to the introduction of a minimum - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) They are now working on a plan to deepen that co-operation. Will my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) the NHS than in 2010 and we have started the reforms with more units of dental activity bands and a minimum - Speech Link
5: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) community-based drop-in mental health services such as the Link centres in North Devon are vital to remote - Speech Link