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Lords Chamber
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) They do not have the facilities, such as schools and health facilities, that are needed. - Speech Link
2: Lord Razzall (LD - Life peer) the high street without any resort to the planning situation.Secondly, we have the issue of council expenditure - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) In the same decade, the number of PE teachers in schools fell by 2,500. - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) English public schools evangelised, especially among boys, the role of team sports. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It successfully beat some of the UK’s top rowing schools at the Schools’ Head of the River Race a few - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) It is extremely frustrating that the economic pack for today’s debate indicates that public expenditure - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) in both urban and rural areas through, for example, expanding initiatives such as forest education schools—particularly - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Some 92% of schools are now part of local career hubs. - Speech Link
2: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) There has been a drop of 80% in our schools. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harrington of Watford (Con - Life peer) few technical matters: for example, they are not allowed to use the apprenticeship levy for capital expenditure - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Permanent Secretaries: Appointment and Removal (Constitution Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Maude of Horsham (Con - Life peer) Permanent Secretaries and aspirant Permanent Secretaries through top leadership courses in top business schools—just - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) The responsibility for ensuing expenditure rests firmly with the Government and cannot be blamed on civil - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act expressly forbids special advisers authorising the expenditure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 08 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Income tax is the largest source of Government revenue and helps to fund the UK’s schools, hospitals - Speech Link
2: None taxes that can generate more revenue and those that have a cost, but balance that with reductions in expenditure - Speech Link
3: None They will ask themselves whether our hospitals, our schools or our police work better. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) In fact, there are 20 Welsh-medium schools in Cardiff now, teaching through the medium of Welsh. - Speech Link
2: None By 2014, the BBC accounted for 95% of total expenditure on first-run UK children’s content. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Tommy Sheppard (SNP - Edinburgh East) Budget that was approved a few months ago also contains forward planning assumptions on income and expenditure - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) They have been neglecting Scotland’s schools, NHS and transport network. - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) of their dependency on Scotland being part of the UK to support vital public services like the NHS, schools - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) food, or the £600 million we have invested to improve the quality of sport and physical activity in schools - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) There are hospitals and schools to be built, and other infrastructure and good causes to benefit from - Speech Link
2: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government simply must hold responsibility for overseeing the expenditure of taxpayers’ money, and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Preventable Sight Loss - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) The charity also reports that the rise in expenditure on cataract services has been accompanied by an - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) annual eye test should be pushed as forcibly as a dental check-up, and that the message should start in schools - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) seen that in ophthalmology, with the commercial interests of private companies driving the increased expenditure - Speech Link