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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (LAB - Life peer) richest third of pupils spending more time than the poorest third.One of the most significant impacts of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) Older teachers who are leaving are being replaced by new recruits to the profession, who are often employed - Speech Link
3: Lord Jones (LAB - Life peer) Levelling up requires a bigger, more self-confident teaching force—and the sooner the better.Lastly, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) I am also aware that she is not alone and that other academics in different disciplines self-censor or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Persecution - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) resulted in the mass criminalisation of the Uyghur population, but led them to question their own sense of self-worth - Speech Link
2: Andrew Lewer (CON - Northampton South) Friend for bringing home the true horrific nature of this technology and the way it is being employed - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) During the covid-19 pandemic, stories of religious minorities being the harbinger of the coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economy: Spring Statement - Thu 31 Mar 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) to crises and help our friends in their times of need.The economy is recovering well following the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) £12,570 from April next year.The Government also recognise the impact of the rising cost of living on self-employed - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) , with employers, employees and the self-employed paying towards the protection of those who have been - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Civil Proceedings - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) to nearly 3 million self-employed people and was one of the most generous schemes for the self-employed - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) That is before we consider self-employed people, who continue to remain ineligible for statutory sick - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) Surely the Minister cannot continue to defend this patently self-defeating policy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 24 Mar 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The Bill is certainly a major step on that journey.The Bill legislates for the two employee and self-employed - Speech Link
2: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) By way of explanation, these are the thresholds at which the employed and the self-employed, respectively - Speech Link
3: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The measure will benefit half a million self-employed people, saving them up to £165 a year. - Speech Link
4: James Daly (CON - Bury North) lowest incomes, which is to be welcomed.I want to consider this policy in the context of the largest self-employed - Speech Link
5: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) This measure will benefit half a million self-employed people by saving them up to £165 a year. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Impact on Social Work - Wed 23 Mar 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) for others on the frontline, I am afraid that there are real problems.As of 2021, 105,000 people were employed - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Registered social workers are also employed by the independent sector and may be self-employed independent - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Parental Leave and Pay - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Budget Group, to assess the reasons for this 45% fall.In 2020, the New Economics Foundation found that self-employed - Speech Link
2: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) We have heard that the full rate of maternity pay often applies for only 12 weeks and that many self-employed - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) For self-employed women and those who are not eligible for statutory maternity pay, maternity allowance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
P&O Ferries and Employment Rights - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None DP World, the owner of P&O Ferries, received millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money during the coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) DP World, the owner of P&O Ferries, received millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money during the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) The House may or may not be aware that, in 2020 during coronavirus and again in 2021, redundancies took - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) A further consideration is that we understand that some seafarers were employed under Jersey law, which - Speech Link
5: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) One small example of P&O’s complete lack of self-awareness came in an email to the remaining 2,200 - Speech Link
6: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) In Wales, thousands of people are directly employed in the sector, on ferries in Holyhead, Fishguard, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
In-work Poverty - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) Like many of us, I have met the cleaners employed by the Churchill Group who are fighting for a real - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Labour, will increase the pressure on working people and businesses even further.The full impact of the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) First and foremost, we have to recognise that this was an issue even before coronavirus and the cost - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) live in my patch, and work long, hard hours, but because of rulings about the gig economy and their self-employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In the last two years, we have had a bellyful of coronavirus; we have heard ad nauseum about the problems - Speech Link
2: None development, supervision and appraisal as is necessary to enable them to carry out the duties they are employed - Speech Link
3: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB - Life peer) Telemedicine and self-management of abortion outside a healthcare facility are both in there. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) That led to me, as very new Peer, moving the amendment to the coronavirus regulations that would have - Speech Link