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Parliamentary Debates
Playgrounds
37 speeches (10,114 words)
Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Ed Balls and Andy Burnham—whatever happened to them? - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
161 speeches (10,763 words)
Tuesday 8th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Even his old pal Ed Balls does not think that GB Energy is going to deliver the green transition, and - Link to Speech

Winter Fuel Payment
31 speeches (4,689 words)
Tuesday 10th September 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) We need the capacity to find an “escape route”, as the former Chancellor, Ed Balls, stated, because people - Link to Speech

Budget Responsibility Bill
43 speeches (18,745 words)
2nd reading
Monday 9th September 2024 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) missionary zeal, I encourage them to resuscitate the 2015 proposal of the then shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Holocaust Memorial Bill
104 speeches (40,406 words)
2nd readingSecond Reading
Wednesday 4th September 2024 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) that support has, of course, been led by the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, and the right honourable Ed Balls - Link to Speech
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) It was also, of course, thoroughly cross-party—anything that can bring together Ed Balls and Michael - Link to Speech
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) I also pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Pickles and to Ed Balls, who together have worked tirelessly - Link to Speech
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I think we should listen to Ed Balls and the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, the co-chairs of the Holocaust - Link to Speech

Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee
99 speeches (33,960 words)
Thursday 25th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Jack Abbott (LAB - Ipswich) His name is Ed Balls, and apparently he used to work here. - Link to Speech
2: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) opprobrium of the people of Colchester, the people of Norwich, and perhaps most impressively of all, Mr Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs
92 speeches (29,954 words)
Friday 19th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mentions:
1: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) As one former shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, argued in a recent paper, there has been too little transport - Link to Speech

Holocaust Memorial Bill
133 speeches (27,169 words)
Committee of the whole House
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Lord Pickles and Ed Balls, who chaired the commission, committed the Government to providing a site in - Link to Speech
2: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) heart and something that I feel so passionately about.First, let me pay tribute to Lord Pickles and Ed Balls - Link to Speech
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) all that he has done to ensure that everything was in order.It would be remiss of me not to thank Ed Balls - Link to Speech
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Ed Balls and the right hon. - Link to Speech

NHS Long-term Workforce Plan
59 speeches (9,103 words)
Monday 3rd July 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) talked about the elastic non-dom revenue raiser, despite the fact that the former shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls - Link to Speech

UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Productivity
49 speeches (22,773 words)
Thursday 29th June 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) Ed Balls was right. He said that George Osborne was going too far, too fast. - Link to Speech

Holocaust Memorial Bill
85 speeches (24,893 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 28th June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) Ed Balls and the right hon. - Link to Speech
2: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) Indeed, I was proud as the Education Secretary to carry on the great work of Ed Balls in making sure - Link to Speech
3: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) pay tribute to their work, and to the two co-chairs, Lord Eric Pickles and the right honourable Ed Balls - Link to Speech
4: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) to the co-chairs of this national project, Lord Pickles, my good friend, and the right honourable Ed Balls - Link to Speech
5: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) past and present members of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, including the right honourable Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
188 speeches (44,932 words)
Tuesday 21st March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) Take it from the former shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, who pointed out on Channel 4 that we have to make - Link to Speech

NHS Workforce Expansion
96 speeches (19,907 words)
Tuesday 28th February 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Ed Balls said that it would end up “costing Britain money”. - Link to Speech
2: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) that will be funded is always a non-dom tax, which would not even raise the money Labour claims, as Ed Balls - Link to Speech

NHS Strikes
48 speeches (5,593 words)
Monday 6th February 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) ; I know I look very young, Mr Speaker, but I am old enough to remember a former Chancellor, one Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Non-domicile Tax Status
78 speeches (17,650 words)
Tuesday 31st January 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) —[Official Report, 9 October 2007; Vol. 464, c. 171.]People like Ed Balls, who said:“I think if you abolish - Link to Speech
2: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) Even Ed Balls has said that abolishing non-dom status would probably end up costing Britain money, because - Link to Speech

International Holocaust Memorial Day
58 speeches (18,700 words)
Thursday 19th January 2023 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (CON - Life peer) obligation to ensure that Holocaust survivors and their families receive justice.I co-chair with Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Management of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Payments
188 speeches (26,661 words)
Tuesday 15th November 2022 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) Also, the four leadership candidates for the Labour party, Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls and - Link to Speech

Transport in Nottinghamshire
26 speeches (12,580 words)
Wednesday 19th October 2022 - Westminster Hall
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) Lawrence, Alan Sillitoe, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir Paul Smith, Torvill and Dean, Ken Clarke and Ed Balls - Link to Speech

Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre
31 speeches (3,462 words)
Thursday 21st July 2022 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) I think that the fact that the commission is chaired by Ed Balls and Lord Pickles shows the cross-party - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Monday 25th November 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Bundle of evidence from Baroness Deech et al

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)

Found: Ed Balls, who was a member of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission and is now a member of the Holocaust

Wednesday 20th November 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Bundle of evidence from the Buxton Family and the Thomas Fowell Buxton Society

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)

Found: It is of Ed Balls 3121MP and Lord Pickles giving evidence and going quickly through these – now this

Tuesday 19th November 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Bundle of materials submitted by the Thorney Island Society and the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)

Found: strong support of all three main political parties and the personal involvement of Michael Gove, Ed Balls

Wednesday 29th May 2024
Report - Third Report - The House of Commons standards landscape: how MPs’ standards and conduct are regulated

Committee on Standards

Found: outside constituency and survey exploited for party political purposes.Mr Hunter to repay £500 Ed Balls

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: I understand the ECB has developed an oversight group with people such as Ed Balls, and so on, that

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - England and Wales Cricket Board, England and Wales Cricket Board, and England and Wales Cricket Board

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: I understand the ECB has developed an oversight group with people such as Ed Balls, and so on, that

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket, Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket, and Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: I understand the ECB has developed an oversight group with people such as Ed Balls, and so on, that

Wednesday 24th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Transport, and Department for Transport

Transport Committee

Found: Guy Opperman: As someone who did 21 years as a lawyer, whose last client was Ed Balls and who spent

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Scrutiny evidence - 2024-01-23 Buxton Family and Thomas Fowell Buxton Society (witnesses)- Petitioner Exhibits

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee

Found: videos at the references given below, who has checked them against those videos.] (1) 23 October, Ed Balls

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - Buxton Family and Thomas Fowell Buxton Society, John Fannon, Buxton Family and Thomas Fowell Buxton Society, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee

Found: It is of Ed Balls 21MP and Lord Pickles giving evidence and going quickly through these – now this

Wednesday 17th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Professor Emerita Christine Stevenson, Nickie Aiken, Councillor Louise Hyams, Philip Smith, Dorian Gerhold, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee

Found: Otherwise, there are only some parliamentary written answers, a short statement by Ed Balls to the

Wednesday 13th December 2023
Oral Evidence - Department for Transport, Department for Transport, Department for Transport, and Department for Transport

Accessible transport: legal obligations - Transport Committee

Found: My last client when I was a barrister was Ed Balls, but obviously I spent most of my time as a human

Tuesday 12th December 2023
Written Evidence - University of Manchester, University of Manchester, University of Manchester, and Queen Mary University of London
CGW0003 - Cross-government working

Public Accounts Committee

Found: example, efforts to build a more holistic approach to education and children’s social care when Ed Balls

Monday 27th November 2023
Report - 1st Report - Making an independent Bank of England work better

Economic Affairs Committee

Found: impossible to “tease out the effects of 18 See for example Q 32 (Sir John Vickers), Q 44 (Rt Hon Ed Balls

Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Oral Evidence - NatWest Group, and Capital Economics

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: We have had evidence before—from Ed Balls, for example—suggesting that some fallback framework should

Friday 12th May 2023
Written Evidence - Baker Dearing Educational Trust
EDU0015 - Education for 11-16 year olds

Education for 11 to 16 year olds - Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee

Found: The first Ministerial approval came under the Labour Government Education Ministers Ed Balls and

Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Oral Evidence - Deutsche Bundesbank, and Edward Chancellor

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Can I bring you back to what we were told last week by Ed Balls and George Osborne?

Tuesday 25th April 2023
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Ed Balls, and Rt Hon George Osborne

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Rt Hon Ed Balls, and Rt Hon George Osborne Oral Evidence

Tuesday 18th April 2023
Written Evidence - Radix Big Tent
IBE0004 - Bank of England: how is independence working?

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020.” iv Ed Balls

Wednesday 7th September 2022
Written Evidence - Linden House Nursing Home, Wellington, Somerset
ASC0007 - Adult Social Care

Adult Social Care - Adult Social Care Committee

Found: We have had Alison Holt produce 2 BBC Panorama programmes and even Ed Balls producing a mini series

Tuesday 5th July 2022
Oral Evidence - Office of the Children's Commissioner for England

Accountability hearings - Education Committee

Found: You will remember Baby P in Haringey and Sharon Shoesmith who was sacked by Ed Balls at that stage in

Monday 4th July 2022
Oral Evidence - Department for Health and Social Care, and Department for Health and Social Care

Adult Social Care - Adult Social Care Committee

Found: I do not know whether you saw the programme that Ed Balls did.

Friday 10th June 2022
Report - Second Report - Appointment and re-appointment of Electoral Commissioners

Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Found: Secretary to; Caroline Flint, Shadow Minister, Department for Energy & Climate Change (2013–15); Ed Balls

Tuesday 24th May 2022
Oral Evidence - Harvard Kennedy School

Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: when Labour was in power, and some of the people were a bit flustered, saying, “Did you hear Ed Balls

Wednesday 18th May 2022
Oral Evidence - Department of Health and Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care, and Department of Health and Social Care

Protecting human rights in care settings - Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: some of the factors that were happeningŠwe have seen some of this in the fabulous programme that Ed Balls

Wednesday 18th May 2022
Oral Evidence - Department of Health and Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care, and Department of Health and Social Care

Protecting human rights in care settings - Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: some of the factors that were happeningŠwe have seen some of this in the fabulous programme that Ed Balls

Wednesday 18th May 2022
Oral Evidence - Department of Health and Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care, and Department of Health and Social Care

Protecting human rights in care settings - Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: some of the factors that were happeningŠwe have seen some of this in the fabulous programme that Ed Balls

Monday 21st March 2022
Oral Evidence - John Glen MP (Economic Secretary at HM Treasury), Gwyneth Nurse (Director General, Financial Services at HM Treasury), and Guy Opperman MP (Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion at Department for Work and Pensions)
HM Treasury, HM Treasury, and Department for Work and Pensions

Treasury Committee

Found: Guy Opperman: One of my last clients was Mr Ed Balls.

Tuesday 8th February 2022
Written Evidence - Mortimer Society
RTR0041 - Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care

Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care - Health and Social Care Committee

Found: This was highlighted in the documentary on BBC2 by Ed Balls - Inside the Care Crisis with Ed Balls.They

Monday 13th December 2021
Oral Evidence - Henry Dimbleby
Henry Dimbleby

Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment - Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee

Found: Ed Balls, who had done a lot, was particularly helpful about how you set them up so that it is not just

Friday 16th July 2021
Inquiry Publications - 1st Report - Quantitative easing: a dangerous addiction?

Quantitative Easing - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: ieo-evaluation-of- the-bank-of-eng lands-approach-to-quantitative-easing [accessed 5 July 2021] 13 Q 166 (Ed Balls

Thursday 29th April 2021
Oral Evidence - Lord Macpherson of Earl’s Court (former Permanent Secretary (2005 – 2016) at HM Treasury), and Ed Balls (Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London)
HM Treasury, and King’s College London

Quantitative Easing - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Lord Macpherson of Earl’s Court (former Permanent Secretary (2005 – 2016) at HM Treasury), and Ed Balls

Tuesday 21st July 2020
Inquiry Publications - Seventh Report: Sanctions in respect of the conduct of Members

Sanctions - Committee on Standards

Found: Mr Hunter to repay £500 Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper [14R 2007Œ08] Members had incorrectly identi˜ed

Thursday 30th April 2020
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP (Chief Secretary to the Treasury at HM Treasury), Katharine Braddick (Director General Financial Services at HM Treasury), and Beth Russell (Director General Tax and Welfare at HM Treasury)
HM Treasury, HM Treasury, and HM Treasury

Economic impact of coronavirus - Treasury Committee

Found: Even Ed Balls has said that he was surprised by the scale and pace of the Treasury™s response.



Parliamentary Research
Holocaust Memorial Bill: HL Bill 4 of 2024–25 - LLN-2024-0049
Aug. 22 2024

Found: Westminster City Council.56 In contrast, the co-chairs of the Holocaust Memorial Commission , Ed Balls

Holocaust Memorial Bill - CBP-9741
Jun. 23 2023

Found: the Conservative s (Michael Gove), the Liberal Democrats (Simon Hughes) and the Labour Party (Ed Balls



Bill Documents
Aug. 22 2024
Holocaust Memorial Bill: HL Bill 4
Holocaust Memorial Bill 2022-23
Briefing papers

Found: Westminster City Council.55 In contrast, the co-chairs of the Holocaust Memorial Commission , Ed Balls

Jun. 23 2023
Briefing paper on the Bill
Holocaust Memorial Bill 2022-23
Briefing papers

Found: representation from the Conservatives (Michael Gove), the Liberal Democrats (Simon Hughes) and Labour (Ed Balls

Mar. 31 2023
Representations on behalf of the Secretary of State
Holocaust Memorial Bill 2022-23
Other documents

Found: Ed Balls (who gave evidence on the Applicant’s behalf to the inquiry).



Department Publications - Policy paper
Monday 20th May 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Holocaust Memorial Bill: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: (PDF)

Found: .2 Revised Chapter 4 (Alternatives) and the Proof of Evidence of Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Rt Hon Ed Balls

Monday 20th May 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Holocaust Memorial Bill: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: (PDF)

Found: .2 Revised Chapter 4 (Alternatives) and the Proof of Evidence of Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Rt Hon Ed Balls



Department Publications - Policy and Engagement
Wednesday 4th October 2023
Department for Transport
Source Page: Network North
Document: Network North: transforming British transport (web version) (PDF)

Found: A recent paper from Ed Balls at the Kennedy School of Government and colleagues highlighted that “in

Wednesday 4th October 2023
Department for Transport
Source Page: Network North
Document: Network North: transforming British transport (print version) (PDF)

Found: A recent paper from Ed Balls at the Kennedy School of Government and colleagues highlighted that “in



Department Publications - News and Communications
Friday 19th May 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: UK Holocaust Memorial passes important milestone
Document: UK Holocaust Memorial passes important milestone (webpage)

Found: the Bill, UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Advisory Board, Co-Chairs, The Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Ed Balls

Thursday 26th January 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Government to introduce legislation to pave way for new National Holocaust Memorial
Document: Government to introduce legislation to pave way for new National Holocaust Memorial (webpage)

Found: Rt Hon Ed Balls and Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles, Co-chairs of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation said:

Thursday 12th May 2022
HM Treasury
Source Page: Chancellor appoints Dr. Swati Dhingra to the Monetary Policy Committee
Document: to listen and to explain (PDF)

Found: On the Wednesday morning, I went into the Treasury where he and Ed Balls asked if I wished to become



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Jul. 18 2024
UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Source Page: Significant step forward for the UK’s National Holocaust Memorial
Document: Significant step forward for the UK’s National Holocaust Memorial (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: the outset, the project has enjoyed cross-party support, exemplified by the joint work of Rt Hon Ed Balls

May. 19 2023
UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Source Page: UK Holocaust Memorial passes important milestone
Document: UK Holocaust Memorial passes important milestone (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: the Bill, UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Advisory Board, Co-Chairs, the Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Ed Balls

Apr. 28 2022
UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Source Page: Immersive UK digital map of people’s stones painted for the UK Holocaust Memorial launches
Document: Immersive UK digital map of people’s stones painted for the UK Holocaust Memorial launches (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Ed Balls, Co-Chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, adds: By exploring the trail, you discover



Non-Departmental Publications - Policy paper
May. 20 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Source Page: Holocaust Memorial Bill: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: (PDF)
Policy paper

Found: .2 Revised Chapter 4 (Alternatives) and the Proof of Evidence of Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Rt Hon Ed Balls

May. 20 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Source Page: Holocaust Memorial Bill: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: (PDF)
Policy paper

Found: .2 Revised Chapter 4 (Alternatives) and the Proof of Evidence of Rt Hon Lord Pickles and Rt Hon Ed Balls




Ed Balls mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Wednesday 13th March 2024

Source Page: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024
Document: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024 (webpage)

Found: When he was still in front-line politics Ed Balls delivered what was quite an erudite, celebrated speech