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Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Schools have their own pressures. - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) As reported in the Department for Education’s local authority and school expenditure for the 2022-23 - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) As we have heard, since 2010 local councils’ expenditure on youth services, whether delivered directly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) The challenges of health waiting lists, the crumbling fabric of our roads and schools, public sector - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) does not seem to be anything about better air services—investment in ports, a twinning programme for schools - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) A huge amount of money needs to be given to the schools of Northern Ireland, where repairs are needed.My - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 23 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Lord (Con - Woking) I have been asked what effect the Bill will have on public expenditure, and I can assure the House that - Speech Link
2: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) problems, but none the less, it pays through taxation for an awful lot of hospitals, police officers and schools - Speech Link
3: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) I actually feel sorry for colleagues who go into schools to talk about mining and renewables, and who - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) and ambitions of virtually every government department, how can the NHS really deliver, and how can schools - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) We talked to schools who are having to give additional support because families do not have heating or - Speech Link
3: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) supplement, she is going to spend it on the family as well as herself, on things such as household expenditure - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The pupil premium will ensure that targeted funding continues to help schools to support disadvantaged - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independent School Fees: VAT - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) our local state schools? - Speech Link
2: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) Three quarters of independent schools are now in partnerships with state schools. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) special needs schools. - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) About 12 years ago, the OECD “Education at a Glance” report found that expenditure on schools as a percentage - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) schools to be removed. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Therefore, we will merge two government programmes: the R&D expenditure credit scheme and the small - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) It is pleasing to note that gross domestic expenditure on R&D has risen from some 1.5% in 2010—to - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Accountants would happily reclassify some business expenditure as R&D and claim higher tax relief - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I am not talking just about the NHS: schools face record deficits, local governments are slashing essentials - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Expenditure on those lump sum awards totalled just over £42 million in ’22-23. - Speech Link
2: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) He campaigned tirelessly for asbestos to be removed from workplaces, schools and homes.Thousands of people - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) their dependants in 2024-25 would require an additional £1 million to £4 million in the departmental expenditure - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) latest financial year for which data is available, 2,860 awards were made across both schemes, with expenditure - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) Following what has been said about schools, which is incredibly important, it is also worth remembering - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) It occurred to me to wonder whether this had anything to do with asbestos being uncovered in schools - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) not time that both sides of the House came together to agree on a common policy of increasing defence expenditure - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Friend agree that, now more than ever, we need to encourage Army visits to schools, and that the long - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Since its introduction in 2012, the number of cadet units in state schools has grown by over 400% to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Layard (Lab - Life peer) another election pledge that every party should be considering.When one looks at the pattern of public expenditure - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) Oxford University conducted a test with schools in the summer of 2021—it was published in July—proving - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We will expand mental health support by recruiting 8,500 more staff and providing specialists in schools - Speech Link