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Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) harms are, for once, less likely than men to discuss the issue or seek help with it.Higher gambling expenditure - Speech Link
2: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The IDF is roaming free, at will bombing to smithereens hospitals and schools, and thousands of women - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) schools; there are calls to make it so from many quarters.In isolation, none of these steps solves the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) At schools, A-level results at STEM are now at 40%, but physics and maths are still much lower. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) non-doms or the cuts to national insurance, does that not leave a whopping £6.5 billion in uncosted expenditure - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) household disposable income, have fallen.The Conservatives now expect us to rejoice in their planned expenditure - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) We have over-subscribed schools, a lack of home-to-school transport, and schools in a poor state of repair—not - Speech Link
4: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) be on sickness and disability benefit, which will cost an extra £33 billion—more than our day-to-day expenditure - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) the Opposition complain about that support.The support inevitably led to higher taxes, because public expenditure - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) It is incumbent on higher education to reach out to schools and FE colleges to promote more access to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Schools still do not brief their pupils on non-university routes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) around the country with the Chartered Association of Business Schools to be able to teach SMEs. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) current R&D efforts by delivering a massive proportion of the UK’s current research and development expenditure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) On the schools budget, the Department for Education wanted £4 billion a year to build the new schools - Speech Link
2: Julian Knight (Ind - Solihull) So-called “austerity” was nothing more than a reduced increase in government expenditure. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con - North East Somerset) We should be making public expenditure flat in real terms, and we need to recognise that the best way - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) It is throwing good money after bad to continuously spend on high-expenditure private rented housing, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement and Budget Report - Wed 06 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) increase the rate of tax credit by 5%, and remove the 80% cap for visual effects costs in the audio-visual expenditure - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) In 2010, schools in the UK were behind Germany, France and Sweden in the OECD’s PISA—programme for international - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) homes estate.Special educational need provision can be excellent when outsourced to independent sector schools - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) It talks about recent increases in UK defence expenditure in cash terms, but we all know how little meaning - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) Surely, after Israeli bombing kills their relatives and destroys their schools and communities, Gaza - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) In UNRWA schools, there is glorification of jihad. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Civilians are being killed and starved as their homes, schools and hospitals are destroyed and their - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) In fairness, of course, the Government can point to increasing military expenditure, support for Ukraine - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Of course, supporting British food in schools and hospitals would boost local farmers, but it is very - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) money.DEFRA needs to publish scheme payment methodologies, as well as a clear payment strategy that forecasts expenditure - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) that there are post offices, local shops and the critical mass of people needed for village and rural schools - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Will the Government also allow water companies access to government-owned land, such as hospitals and schools - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) published by Thames Water.First, on page 134 of those accounts, the company states that it“capitalises expenditure - Speech Link


Grand Committee
AUKUS - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Risby (Con - Life peer) vagaries of electoral cycles, and indeed it must, as the project will require sustained effort and expenditure - Speech Link
2: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) In opening this debate, the noble Lord, Lord Risby, spoke of sustained expenditure until at least 2040 - Speech Link