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Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) What irony, when Conservative MPs are overseas today in Brussels, lining up with the European far right - Speech Link
2: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) Select Committee Chairs do not just do hope; they do evidence. - Speech Link
3: Mark Eastwood (Con - Dewsbury) impact of removing all flavours on non-smoking young people and adult smokers using vapes as a quit aid - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) while at the same time supporting current smokers to quit by switching to vapes as a less harmful quit aid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) greater than other measures of inflation, partly because a lot of our defence equipment is imported from overseas - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) to Ukraine within our overall aid package worth almost £12 billion. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Our Select Committees have an essential role to play in highlighting difficult issues, as we have been - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Lady as an ordinary Back Bencher, because she is the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is difficult to tell, because scrutiny mechanisms are not in place that would allow Committees of - Speech Link
3: None or who have otherwise been agents or allies of the UK overseas. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Supreme Court judge, the President of the Rwanda Bar Association and the chief executive of the Legal Aid - Speech Link
5: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) The Government need to clarify how they have aided and continue to aid those people, some of whom are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) The implications have been heavily criticised by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact and the International - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Just this week, the food charity Sustain, working with Jesuit Refugee Service UK and Life Seekers Aid - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) International Monetary Fund; it was not through due diligence to our own Parliament or the parliamentary Committees - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) spending even more there, not having solved the problem at source.As someone who defended the 0.7% overseas - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) of the Home Affairs Committee pointed out, a huge amount of the spending is being channelled through overseas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The increase for executive committees is nearly 60% and for boards it is nearly 40%. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) without local women at the table.I have one other point, on today’s report from the Commons Treasury Select - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) overseas aid.Because the Church is an international entity, my office as a bishop often takes me abroad - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) coincides with the publication overnight of Sexism in the City, the latest report of a House of Commons Select - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Committee system, that sometimes there are differences of opinion on Select Committees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) the same way.In addition, still on the equality of arms point, the Government have removed the legal aid - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) acknowledge the Minister’s points about creating the independent advocate role, the review of legal aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Select Committees, in particular, hold individual departments to account, including in their response - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) using his authority to make sure that that message is rammed home to those people who sit on those committees - Speech Link
5: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) a person who has been convicted of a broad range of sexual offences, committed either in the UK or overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howard of Lympne (Con - Life peer) I think that will aid the noble Lord’s understanding of what I am saying. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) I apologise that I was unable to join your Lordships for Second Reading, as I was overseas. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Committee in the way you would expect Select Committees to be treated. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) That would be done through the re-establishment of the aid budget, which the noble Baroness’s party cut - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) In answer to the question from the Chair of the Select Committee, paragraph 3 continues:“The duty to - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The concerns expressed by my constituents, and felt by my party, have also been highlighted by two Committees - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood—again, I hope I heard her correctly—who prayed in aid the Fixed-term - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Why have they reduced overseas aid from 0.7% to 0.5% of gross national income, while spending almost - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, has noted, the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office told the Select Committee - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) On its first day, as is usual, there were two meetings of its various committees. - Speech Link