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18 Mar 2025, 4:09 p.m. - House of Commons "with the Secretary of State, then Ed balls, then the Department of " David Simmonds MP (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Holocaust Memorial Bill
110 speeches (28,164 words) Committee stage Thursday 20th March 2025 - Grand Committee Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) and dispossession.I do not understand the thinking behind the initial decision, described by Mr Ed Balls - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) I was present at a meeting with Mr Ed Balls and Michael Gove, and Mr Ed Balls said there would be 3 million - Link to Speech |
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
127 speeches (39,136 words) Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) discover that we were to attend, with 17 unions, a weekly meeting with the then Secretary of State, Ed Balls - Link to Speech |
Holocaust Memorial Bill
129 speeches (25,316 words) Committee stage Tuesday 4th March 2025 - Grand Committee Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Ed Balls claimed that Victoria Tower Gardens was his suggestion, but we have never heard why the Imperial - Link to Speech 2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) When Bazalgette resigned to go on to other artistic projects, I was appointed, along with Ed Balls, as - Link to Speech 3: None I have heard, as I said before, Ed Balls say that it was his idea to suggest Victoria Tower Gardens and - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) This is the British values narrative, a project led by the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, and Mr Ed Balls, - Link to Speech |
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
150 speeches (26,936 words) Committee stage: 14th Sitting Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Department for Education Mentions: 1: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) playgrounds in their 14 years in government, and the only strategy ever on national play was launched by Ed Balls - Link to Speech |
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 |
Parliamentary Research |
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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 |
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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 - Transparency |
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Wednesday 19th February 2025
Cabinet Office Source Page: Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality: July to October 2024 Document: (webpage) Found: Hospitality (£) HOME OFFICE Yvette Cooper 16/08/2024 Chief Executive Officer for Universal Music via Ed Balls |
Thursday 30th January 2025
HM Treasury Source Page: HM Treasury: special advisers’ gifts, hospitality and meetings, July to September 2024 Document: (webpage) Found: Matt Pound 2024-07-13 LTA Wimbledon Tickets Yes Ben Nunn 2024-08-01 Ed Balls |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
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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 |
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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 |
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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: |
Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications |
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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 |
Non-Departmental Publications - Policy paper |
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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 |
Scottish Government Publications |
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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 |
Welsh Senedd Research |
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Better Governance for Wales key material statements and debates - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 Better Governance for Wales – key material: Statements and Debates, June 2005 – August 2005 Abstract This paper draws together the key statements and debates relating to the White Paper ‘Better Governance for Wales’ from June to August 2005. It i... Found: This week, I read comments from Ed Balls, who has been quoted in the newspapers as agreeing absolutely |
Public appointments in Wales and elsewhere - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 Public appointments in Wales and elsewhere November 2012 This paper sets out the public appointments which are currently made by Welsh Ministers to Welsh public bodies, the role of the Assembly in such appointments and the processes which those a... Found: Hon Ed Balls MP, however rejected the committee’s recommendations and went ahead with the original appointment |