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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Jan 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) If she will make it her policy to maintain free TV licences for people over the age of 75. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) If she will make it her policy to maintain free TV licences for people over the age of 75. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) As we said in our manifesto, we recognise the value of the free TV licence for over-75s, and they should - Speech Link
4: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) responsibility for the over-75 concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
The Economy - Thu 24 Oct 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) nothing about reversing the proposal to take away the television licence for the over-75s. - Speech Link
2: Hugh Gaffney (LAB - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) TV licences back for those 75-year-olds.We have seen rising levels of poverty, attacks on workers’ rights - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) Member for Newport West (Ruth Jones), who is calling again for the BBC to honour the right of the over - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Gentleman knows full well, and it should be funding those free TV licences. - Speech Link
2: Chris Elmore (LAB - Ogmore) has highlighted that the Government’s decision to scrap free TV licences for the over-75s will put them - Speech Link
3: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) It is up to the BBC to fund these licences. The hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) commit to reverse the cuts to BBC funding for the over-75s licence fee. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheeler (LAB - Life peer) , including going back to the care cap and free personal care to match Labour’s long-standing commitments - Speech Link
3: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) A guy from G4S came up to me and said, “I have a budget for corporate responsibility in Kampala, and - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Concern over the funding of music hubs has been highlighted by widely reported comments from, for example - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) to take some responsibility for this. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) Does the Minister not agree with former Tory Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, on the matter of free TV licences - Speech Link
3: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) and funding, and referred to the crisis in funding for social care. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Free Television Licences - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) sources of funding before the BBC announced their plans to cease providing free television licences - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) commitment to provide free television licences for those over 75 for the whole of the Parliament? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) However, does the Minister accept that the introduction of free TV licences for the over 25s; sorry, - Speech Link
4: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (LAB - Life peer) back from the BBC to the Government. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
BBC - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Helen Jones (LAB - Warrington North) for funding free licences. - Speech Link
2: Karen Lee (LAB - Lincoln) the Government to continue funding free TV licences for the over-75s. - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) guarantee that free TV licences for the over-75s would be protected. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) when discussing the importance of free TV licences for the over-75s. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 04 Jul 2019
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) If he will make it his policy to maintain free TV licences for the over-75s after 2020. - Speech Link
2: Rosie Duffield (LAB - Canterbury) If he will make it his policy to maintain free TV licences for the over-75s after 2020. - Speech Link
3: Jim Cunningham (LAB - Coventry South) If he will make it his policy to maintain free TV licences for the over-75s after 2020. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) If he will make it his policy to maintain free TV licences for the over-75s after 2020. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Day - Wed 26 Jun 2019
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) It takes over from Headley Court, which was the previous centre, but there is an issue with Stanford - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (CON - Rayleigh and Wickford) My father taught me never to take living in a free country for granted. - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (CON - Stoke-on-Trent South) Those calls, like the calls for us to increase funding for our armed forces in the forthcoming spending - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) be, so I will take that point back to the Department.My hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Older Persons: Provision of Public Services - Thu 13 Jun 2019
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (LAB - Life peer) and pledged to protect free TV licences for over-75s in its 2017 election manifesto—on page 66 to be - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (LAB - Life peer) latest blow is the BBC announcement that free TV licences for over-75s will be linked to pension credit—that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB - Life peer) I believe many people, hearing about the removal of this benefit of free TV licences for the over-75s - Speech Link
4: Baroness Janke (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, the BBC’s announcement that it will stop free licences for all but the most needy over-75s - Speech Link
5: Lord Ashton of Hyde (CON - Excepted Hereditary) 75s on to the BBC had been more than matched by the deal coming back for the BBC. - Speech Link