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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) As a former Pensions Minister, I know the impact that such modernisation has had on the state pension - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Those of us who come from that generation look at our defence spending and preparedness with horror. - Speech Link
3: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) We need a more productive state, not a bigger state.” - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I will provide the Government Front Bench with the thought that, just as with the Windrush generation - Speech Link
5: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) proposal as a “gimmick” and a “dangerous distraction ”, likely to“lead to higher charges and lower retirement - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Pensions Acts of 1995 and 2011. - Speech Link
2: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) similar injustices that have taken place in our society: Horizon, which is ongoing, the blood scandal, Windrush - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Any talk of raising the retirement age further must stop because, we know that raising the retirement - Speech Link
4: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) or sole breadwinner, with women expected to rely on their husbands’ pensions for an income in retirement - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush Generation: 75th Anniversary - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (CB - Life peer) For so many who came on the HMT “Empire Windrush”, and for the Windrush generation, it was pride: they - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) , but that simply goes to point out the injustice of frozen pensions. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Commonwealth Day - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) she will be excluded once again from the annual uprating, bringing the total she has lost during her retirement - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) slavery, which forever stains British history, and Prince William spoke out against the injustice of the Windrush - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Future of the NHS - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) We are feeding a generation of problems as a result of that failure. - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) down to the bone, and that is leading to the situation being made worse with people leaving or taking retirement - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) We are losing dentists from the profession because they are taking early retirement or changing careers - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) think that this problem is confined to doctors; I think there is a much bigger problem relating to pensions - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) We should thank them, thank the Windrush generation and thank that generation of Irish nurses and others - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Elections Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) funded schools;(f) local authorities;(g) the Department for Work and Pensions;(h) HM Passport Office - Speech Link
2: Chris Clarkson (CON - Heywood and Middleton) on the costas, but many are ordinary people who have worked hard, saved and decided to enjoy their retirement - Speech Link
3: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) That is happening despite the continuing hurt of the Windrush generation having to prove they live here - Speech Link
4: None may take whatever steps the Secretary of State”. - Speech Link
5: None by, or provided to, the Secretary of State”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Nov 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) generation compensation scheme. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Ensuring that those who are now quite elderly of the Windrush generation are properly compensated is - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Other things have been done, with regard to 990-year leases, removing the retirement sector exemption - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) Among other things, it highlights how the Department for Work and Pensions lost control of universal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading (day 1) - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) generation and others acquire British citizenship more quickly. - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) For 17 of those years, it has been led by the remarkable Rema Sherifi, until her recent retirement. - Speech Link
3: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) On benefits, foreign-born people are less likely to receive key Department for Work and Pensions out-of-work - Speech Link
4: Claudia Webbe (IND - Leicester East) generation, the Government are intent on expanding the damaging hostile environment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Windrush Day 2021 - Thu 01 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) We do not honour the Windrush generation if we carry on like this.We do not honour the Windrush generation - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Successive UK Governments have pursued an approach to state pensions whereby recipients in some countries - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 18 May 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (CON - Life peer) he gave his life for: a proposition—a dream—that was worth dying for then, just as it is worth a new generation - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB - Excepted Hereditary) These numbers represent people losing their life savings, their pensions, their house deposits. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) case to answer, that his case had been thoroughly investigated, and that he should get on with his retirement - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) It should be remembered by everyone in this House—we are the last generation that really remembers this - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) No one can suggest that the Windrush Compensation Scheme is going well. - Speech Link