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Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) They all have some problems but, compared with more developed systems of universal care in Europe and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) Secretaries of State who gave evidence to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) I pay credit to the Minister who is replying today, because he was one of those who pushed for their - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Disability Benefits - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) She would shake and cry every time she had to log on to her universal credit journal, which she had to - Speech Link
2: Justin Tomlinson (Con - North Swindon) Before universal credit was rolled out, people—often some of the most vulnerable people in society—typically - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) Those charities estimate that, even after benefits are increased in April, universal credit will fall - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) face, and to increase universal credit and the employment and support allowance so that disabled people - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) permitted work rules in employment support allowance and work allowance rules in universal credit. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) International treaties are drafted on a state-to-state basis and not in a way that necessarily corresponds - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) , of course, the universal credit system, which covers people entitled to in-work and out-of-work benefits - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) of intelligence that humans apply to this, which machines simply do not have the capacity for.I pay credit - Speech Link
4: None The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, talked about how it impacts on the welfare system, healthcare, policing - Speech Link
5: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) the operation of the welfare system, but we need to ensure that citizens in this country have a higher - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Food Security - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) New Zealand that undercut our farmers on welfare practices and food standards. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) allow a regrowth of smaller abattoirs closer to the point of production, which is better for animal welfare - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) credit and have in excess of a £7,400 post-tax income.Building awareness among children of where their - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) I reassure her that the Secretary of State wants to ensure that food productivity is at the heart of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) She has come to my office, which has helped with universal credit, PIP and the new-style employment and - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) , but I know from the Public and Commercial Services union that one in four universal credit managers - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) credit ran out of food in January and could not afford more, and 2.4 million universal credit claimants - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) One finding is that, of the people receiving both universal credit and housing benefit in Arfon, 35% - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) over to those aged 21 and over. - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Between April 2021 and April 2022, household bills doubled, and the price of essential goods and services - Speech Link
3: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) Pensions Committee, Frank Field, was right in his assumption that universal credit, like tax credits - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The total cost of the welfare system is around £303 billion, some of which is a result of the issue he - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) , orchestras and museums and galleries, and will be introducing a tax credit for UK independent films.Turning - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) the extension of the universal credit budgeting advance loan repayment period, although the latter touches - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) To remind your Lordships, the latest estimate of the R&D tax credit costs is some £6.5 billion, and - Speech Link
4: Lord Northbrook (Con - Excepted Hereditary) When items such as welfare expenditure are forecast to rise by 38% and funded sector public pension schemes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) I am very appreciative of the Government, including the Secretary of State and Ministers for listening - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) were subjected to during travel, meaning that some may have arrived in the UK in an extremely poor state - Speech Link
3: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) would have been absolutely appalling to have his claws removed, preventing his natural instinct.All credit - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) private Member’s Bill was talked out by a Conservative Member, for instance, despite having almost universal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) The public rightly look to their national insurance contributions as the bedrock of our welfare state - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) confirm the continuation of the “train and progress” element of universal credit, which will also give - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) The Department for Work and Pensions looks after deductions from universal credit, and rent arrears are - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) In 1945, when Labour came to power from the rubble of war, we built the NHS, we built the welfare state - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) their access to credit. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) phenomenon are now part of the welfare landscape—and local government in particular has been starved - Speech Link
2: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) credit and scrapping the two-child benefit limit. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) The Blairite model of welfare capitalism, which embraces the false promise of globalisation and is personified - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) down in Weybridge, Surrey, as it is so important to our food security, our animal health and welfare - Speech Link