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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) for” services —these are particularly helpful for black and minoritised women—as well as those providing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bertin (Con - Life peer) Coalition and Rights of Women. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) Abusers use their control over the victim’s immigration status and their right to live and work in the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Council report Custody, Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children recommends that states - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Perhaps she could explain why so many staff working for the Department for Work and Pensions are only - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) the uplift to £4.25 a week, so that pregnant women and children over one and under four receive £4.25 - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) That makes sure that people are rewarded for the work they do, and it means an extra £1,800 for someone - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) Their work helps the NHS and the taxpayer, saving them billions of pounds. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) it is much easier for someone to get work when they are already in work and when their skill level has - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Both the Work and Pensions Committee and the National Audit Office warned of this situation five years - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) Friend the Member for Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood) pointed out, 72% are women, and 44% of those of - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) UK, Carers Trust and the Learning and Work Institute, to name but three. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Mother Earth Day - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) and biodiversity loss. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) and the western Congo Basin. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) The Prime Minister and the Government are absolutely committed to this, and we should be proud that we - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) by the green transition—including women and indigenous populations—in the design, implementation and - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) It is an existential threat, and the work we are doing on SIDS this year in the run up to CHOGM, and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) including many Conservative politicians, why there has been no concession: “Why have they not been able to work - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) screen would be best portrayed by the great men and women who cover our Front Benches?” - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) It will not work for people who have a justifiable claim and are, at this moment, outside the United - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Minister could not guarantee that everything was in order for the Bill to work. - Speech Link
5: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) First, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, who knows how much I appreciate the work - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) How will this work? How is it to be managed? - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) This discrimination will particularly affect women, because a lot of women receive social security benefits - Speech Link
3: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I speak as someone who was a Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions back in 2017. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) That work will carefully be undertaken by a human and no automated decisions will be made. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sudan: Government Response - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Some 88% of those crossing the border were women and children.On Monday, to mark one year of brutal conflict - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I pay particular tribute to her and the APPG for the work they do. - Speech Link
3: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) , to which the UK Government contribute, but what further work and money can the UK put in to protect - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) gender-based violence was being used against women. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I saw the weight of human misery crossing that border—88% of those crossing were women and children, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Friend is right: the test of such a policy is whether it will work as a deterrent. - Speech Link
2: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) How will we be able to work our way out of any unsafe country where we have such a treaty in place? - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) women who have fought alongside our armed forces or served the UK Government overseas”must be exempt - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) the Government know, will not work. - Speech Link
5: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) that those who have risked everything to protect and serve our servicemen and women in Afghanistan cannot - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parents: Separation - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) drily comments:“Britain is now … giving Europe a masterclass in … ‘non-partnered motherhood’—namely, women - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) to say, not only to others who think they know best but who feel that it is a vendetta of men versus women - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) During the commission’s work, the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act became law. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) Although it could go better, and the Minister has said it will, a great deal of work needs to be done - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) a hodge-podge of systems and processes that work for no one. - Speech Link
3: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) Our close family and friends include Ukrainian women and children, who are routinely bombarded in their - Speech Link
4: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) Is this work under way? - Speech Link