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Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) The repeal of this abominable legislation is long overdue and all credit is due to the Government. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We do not leave it up to Warner Bros, MGM or Universal to decide the age ratings of the films they produce - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) , and the Minister for making himself available for discussions at an early stage.There seems to be universal - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) They are a credit to our town and play such an important part in giving the best start in life to our - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Children’s social care puts significant pressure on local authority finances, so general, more universal - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) It mentions:“sustained and long-term revenue funding to bolster universal and open-access youth services - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) There should be a streamlined strategy to ensure a base level of universal open-access youth services - Speech Link
5: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I give absolute credit to the Government for the £2 bus fare—but a fat lot of good that is if there is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UNICEF: Child Poverty Rankings - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) continue to provide financial support to unpaid carers through the carer’s allowance, the carer element of universal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing Benefit: Temporary Accommodation - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of York (Bshp - Bishops) This would guarantee that universal credit was enough to cover the essentials—rent—which would therefore - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) I give credit to the Minister and previous Ministers for introducing it, and my hon. - Speech Link
2: None the parks and public areas are beautifully maintained by estate management companies, but that is not universal - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security (Contributions) (Limits and Thresholds, National Insurance Funds Payments and Extension of Veterans Relief) Regulations 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) continue to get access to contributory benefits, including the state pension, through a national insurance credit - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations set the annual rates of working tax credit - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) I welcome the work that the Government have done on universal credit: it is a very good set of reforms - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Unpaid carers may also access support through universal credit, pension credit and housing benefit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Poverty among people on universal credit remained high at the same time at 46%, it said,“despite the - Speech Link
3: None Since 6 April 2017, families can claim support as universal credit and child tax credit for up to two - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Maintenance Service - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I give credit to Arlene Sugden, the former director of the CMS: she did a tremendous job and made a lot - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) For some parents, child tax credit helps to fill the gap, yet when there is a relationship breakdown, - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) cannot be that complicated.Finally, will the Minister look at where child maintenance arrears sit in the universal - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) consistently calling on the UK Government to take action to tackle the cost of living crisis, improve universal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) As of July 2023, 6.1 million people were claiming universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) These are: to boost incomes and reduce costs by ending the poverty premium; to reboot universal credit - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That will ensure that 1.6 million private renters in receipt of housing benefit or universal credit gain - Speech Link