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Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) option for those without digital skills.Nor can such people connect with family and friends through video - Speech Link
2: Lord Lipsey (Lab - Life peer) exclusion happens: lack of devices; nervousness about using digital; fear of fraud; and physical or mental disability - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Baroness, Lady Bennett, my noble friend Lord Lipsey and others.However, as the report points out, while demand - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The council is focused on addressing industry’s current and future demand for digital skills, including - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Disability Action Plan - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None That is why in July 2023 we consulted on the draft disability action plan, setting out a range of proposals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Is the dog supporting a disability?”— what on earth does that mean? - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Jumping forward, on 5 February 2024, the Government published the Disability Action Plan.The Disability - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I happened to hear the Secretary of State for Education say that she was confident about the demand for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) At the same time, different scenarios might legitimately demand different levels of qualification or - Speech Link
2: None Demand may vary significantly from one area to another, so flexibility is essential, and my amendment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) Voice for the Voiceless, I am still hearing that there are far too few intermediaries to meet the demand - Speech Link
4: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) I went past two rooms in the murder trial that were video-link rooms. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) I chair a disability committee for the Local Government Association— I am a vice-president of the LGA—and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) That is why we urgently need to apply the same standards of child protection to on-demand video as we - Speech Link
2: None Research has shown that audiences have different expectations of video on demand services than they - Speech Link
3: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) It is exactly the same process as the one that is used to verify a video on demand, and it is what Netflix - Speech Link
4: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) from harmful and inappropriate video on demand content. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Given the Women and Equalities Committee’s damning report on the Government’s disability strategy just - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I also remind the House that every Department has a disability lead in place. I echo the hon. - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) and see what they have to say to her.Before the Leader of the House launches into—mercifully—her last video - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Lady will understand: business is fluid, events happen and there is demand for particular statements. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Health Service: 75th Anniversary - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) This callous decision will blight the lives of tens of thousands of people with pain and disability and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) It took about 20 minutes and appeared to be akin to mastering some complex video game”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) It gives value for money, but, as demand increases, so do the pressures. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) Demand for cosmetic surgery is increasing year on year. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) working groups of the Government’s major conditions strategy despite being the fourth-worst cause of disability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) those with long-term health conditions and disability, and the long-term unemployed. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lea of Lymm (Con - Life peer) sickness or disability. - Speech Link
3: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) immediate effect of his clear declaration of intent to cut public investment and cut the growth of demand - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Increases in central funding nowhere meet that justified level of demand, which leaves local authorities - Speech Link
5: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) We have had developments in automation, video conferencing and similar, yet the civilians employed by - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) What about lower spending on sickness and disability benefits overall? - Speech Link
2: Andy McDonald (Ind - Middlesbrough) Such is the arrogance displayed by the Mayor, his office even put out a video showing him hand-signing - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) We demand that people have the right to food. - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) as a“cynical attack on disability benefits that will have a devastating impact on those on the lowest - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I place on record my thanks for hosting the UK Disability History Month event that took place in your - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) on their diligence and on never giving up. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) to fund its critical work, to ensure that that work is able to continue and to meet the unfortunate demand - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) high inflation, high interest rates and unprecedented levels of demand for social care, leaving so many - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) from political insights that go no deeper than T-shirt slogans, from hypersensitivity, from those who demand - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) who marched last weekend did so with a simplistic desire to stop pain and suffering, it is clear, as video - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) human shields”.For those of us like the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, who have now seen the sickening video - Speech Link
4: Earl of Dundee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) stresses the disadvantage affecting countless groups of people ranging from girls and women, students with disability - Speech Link
5: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In every speech, on every platform, that should be the first, the second and the last demand. - Speech Link