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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) We saw this during the coronavirus pandemic, when local authorities rose to the challenge of distributing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) recent example being Culture Start in Sunderland —a city-based partnership spanning social housing, schools - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This is why the Spring Statement committed £105 million towards a wave of 15 new special free schools - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) He was also clear that tutoring should be best managed and led by schools. - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) provided invaluable support, particularly for children whose education was impacted during the global coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) issue.The Government set up the national tutoring programme in England in response to the impact of the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Just a few months ago, the then Schools Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) We will prioritise our children, schools and families once again. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Charities: National Minimum Wage - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We saw that very clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, when we pledged £750 million to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) My Lords, independent schools are not among the very smallest charities in our country but they are pretty - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) My noble friend speaks with great authority as the president of the Independent Schools Association, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) This had a worse psychological effect than the coronavirus on the general population.Some interim measures - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is important for us all to know how much is being taught in primary and secondary schools about the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, asked a question about children in schools. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Despite that, childhood obesity rates in Bexley have worsened following the coronavirus pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) We also need to tackle takeaways near secondary schools, which Wandsworth Council is starting to do, - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Schools will have a role and responsibility within that, which is why our fully funded breakfast clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) understand it, the only tax initiatives announced by Labour are to increase taxation, such as VAT on schools - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I am not talking just about the NHS: schools face record deficits, local governments are slashing essentials - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic was made possible through the powerful - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Data suggest that the number of home schooled children has increased across England since the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) It applies to other unofficial faith schools as well. - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) will take no lectures from him on schools policy during the pandemic. - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Labour will work with parents and schools to make mainstream schools inclusive, and to make inclusivity - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) as well as secondary schools. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Excess Death Trends - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Yet again we are seeing a peak in covid hospitalisations, as we should be expecting from a coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Staffordshire (Sir Gavin Williamson), stood up in the House of Commons and said that he would close schools - Speech Link
3: Karl McCartney (Con - Lincoln) As an aside, it is commendable that the Government recently ensured that all schools have defibrillators - Speech Link
4: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) confirm again, that we believe vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in relation to coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) There are schools of thought on that; one is that when people were locked down, they were not exposed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS Winter Update - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None doctors it needs for the future by doubling the number of medical school places, opening five new medical schools - Speech Link
2: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) who are most vulnerable are coming to get vaccinated, first for flu and secondly, of course, for the coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2023 - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) delays owing to other government priorities relevant to the UK’s exit from the European Union and the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) each of the public sector workforces, including the NHS, local government, police forces, maintained schools - Speech Link