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Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) I am really proud that every single school in my Chelmsford constituency is now ranked “good” or “outstanding - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) school—perhaps because it is a Monday or a Friday and they are extending a weekend and perhaps because a parent - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) She highlighted how good attendance requires a holistic approach, involving schools, families, local - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) You have lost your life partner, and your baby has lost a parent. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) for the Bill and for fathers and partners who, in the most tragic of circumstances, find themselves a single - Speech Link
3: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Like others, I thank the charity Gingerbread, which supports single parents, for its work in helping - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mental Health and Long-term Conditions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) long-term condition leads to worse outcomes for a person’s physical health.”A thread runs through every single - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) The situation families live with is complex, unique and often extreme in terms of the stress endured. - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) She talked about a parent who said that you end up fighting battles that you did not really know existed.I - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Arm’s length bodies are also signing up to Disability Confident, and we are working with parent Departments - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) There are various reasons why women and men should be able to access single-sex spaces, and public toilets - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I have seen for myself the mouldy and damp accommodation that our military families are sometimes forced - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We are committed to ensuring that our armed forces personnel and their families have safe and well maintained - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The result was that Kristian received a single blow to the head. - Speech Link
2: None Jacob was a perpetrator who threw a single punch and went to prison. - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Members, that a single punch to the head is likely to be more catastrophic than a single punch to the - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) I fully understand the impact on families; I have sometimes had to talk to families who have had to accept - Speech Link
5: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Friend said, and I agree with every single word of it. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Smartphones and Social Media: Children - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) TikTok is now the most favoured single source of news among British teens. - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) I want to hear from parents, families and young people in my constituency of Redditch. - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) workload on teachers and led to major behavioural issues, which are the No. 1 and No. 3 issues in every single - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (Con - Great Grimsby) It is difficult, but the word is parent, not friend—a parent is there to parent their children. - Speech Link
5: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) Being a parent is also one of the scariest things. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules - Tue 14 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Where there are children, the state is in effect creating lone-parent families, who are more likely to - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Undoubtedly, they will lead to an increase in the length of children’s separation from a parent before - Speech Link
3: None These new requirements create single-parent families and impose a very high economic, social and emotional - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee should be compulsory reading for every single - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Palestinians: Visa Scheme - Mon 13 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) deferred biometric enrolment, but I understand that since the start of the conflict in October every single - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) start their journeys with a crowdfunder, and then ask themselves, “Well, we’ve got enough to bring a parent - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Streatham) It is worth repeating that the Home Office has rejected every single request for biometric deferral and - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) In those six months, every single time she went to sleep she said, as well as the prayer she says every - Speech Link
5: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) Not a single Palestinian child has been offered that service, despite the fact that in hospitals, such - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) see my grandchildren regularly, but intergenerational interaction need not be confined only to within families - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Every single person has a unique experience and a unique perspective that they can bring to the table - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) All those things are now viewed as part of the parcel of not just being a mother, but being a parent. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) ; it is a housing association older people’s bungalow, but it is on a street full of families. - Speech Link
5: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) When I look at large families of different cultures, or different groups of families—on holiday, for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Integration of Primary and Community Care (Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) Importantly, there should be a single accountable officer at place level, specifically charged with working - Speech Link
2: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) I am just a little sad as my mother, who was brought up in occupied Holland by a single parent, is no - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) Every single premises in the United Kingdom has its own number. - Speech Link