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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (Con - Life peer) I speak in support of Amendment 57, to which I have added my name, and register my support for my noble - Speech Link
2: None delivery, it causes problems for citizens and, increasingly, it makes the UK an outlier among high-income - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) give noble Lords a quick example: when I was in the Department of Health and Social Care, we had a scheme - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) , government departments and contractors using public data have a compulsory transparency reporting scheme - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) place in statute a provision that is already contained in the ICO’s freedom of information publication scheme - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) witnesses or the relevant consumer bodies has claimed that the industry does not need this change or that self-regulation - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Ground rents provide no service and are purely rent-seeking.I have very little sympathy for the self-serving - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) We must always support the little man. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The British economy is in decline; it offers diminishing opportunities for gainful employment. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) or a developer-funded scheme. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Transport: Carshalton and Wallington - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Regular, consistent services are vital to connect my constituents with employment, education and essential - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) (Andy Carter), honourably fighting the fight on behalf of the Department for Transport; and my good self - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) We want to continue to support him and his constituents. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Minimum Wage Legislation - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) On top of that, we provide funding of over £50 million per annum to ACAS, to support employment tribunals - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) One of the sanctions available to the Government is the naming and shaming scheme, which is very successful - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) point out that, when this Government took over from Labour in 2010, benefits were the largest source of income - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) In the meantime, 30% of the population do not pay any tax and the 1% highest earners pay 30% income tax - Speech Link
5: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Does the Minister not believe that the whole area of self-employment needs to be looked at very carefully - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Access to Migraine Treatment - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dehenna Davison (Con - Bishop Auckland) workplace is not just confined to individuals dealing with the stress of potentially losing a job and income - Speech Link
2: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) and under-diagnosed.Migraines affect people’s ability to access full employment, with 29% of those who - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) efficacy and cost-effectiveness of drugs to prevent and treat migraines, and resources and training on self-management - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) , the enterprise investment scheme and venture capital trusts. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) In case anyone thinks I am wallowing in a warm bath of self-delusion, let us look at the facts.At the - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Income from rent and property is taxed significantly lower than income from work. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) This scheme would be transformative. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This built on a £7 billion employment package previously announced in the 2023 Spring Budget. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) , and that they too will be entitled to support for five years. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) How much has the Home Office budgeted in total for support costs? - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) absolutely important.The documents mention the responsibilities around issuing visas and passports, and the income - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) There are self-inflicted costs, because the Home Office took too long to increase the number of caseworkers - Speech Link
5: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Working people aged between 20 and 64 who were born in the UK have a much higher rate of employment than - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Shelter tells me 45% of renters aged 16 to 24 spend half or more of their income on rent. - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) Housing Federation’s latest report shows how investing in a really major expansion of social housing is self-financing - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We certainly never hear about any desire to create a slight glut of housing or employment premises. - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) My wife and I bought our first home on a 95% mortgage, worth 2.5 times my income. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) These reductions in tax will drive more people to seek employment. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) , but the measure is huge for those people because it gives them security in employment, and that is - Speech Link
3: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) Friends on the Front Bench to find time to look again at the second part of the self-employment package - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) my time engaging with a whole variety of different bits of government, such as the teachers’ pension scheme - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) never thought it was correct, for example, for councillors to be part of the local government pension scheme - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) full-time responsibilities, and it must not be that working-class people who do not have an independent income - Speech Link