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Select Committee
Department for Work and Pensions
DYE0042 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: people reporting more than one long-term health condition was generally falling prior to the coronavirus


Select Committee
Fourth Report - Performance of investment zones and freeports in England

Report Apr. 26 2024

Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: sessions included academics, trade associations, representatives from freeports, regional leaders and Ministers


Bill Documents
25 Apr 2024 - Briefing papers
Pet Abduction Bill: HL Bill 62 of 2023–24
Pet Abduction Bill 2023-24

Found: It would also provide powers to ministers to create similar offences for other animal species kept as


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) 14—Powers of Secretary of State in connection with Chapter 1.Government new clause 16—Power of Welsh Ministers - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) this should have happened five years ago, but I gently say that in those five years we have had the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) As the Bill is drafted—even with Government new clause 30—Ministers can determine whenever they want - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) I know that Ministers do not want it and that the Ministry of Justice does not want it, but it seemed - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Ministers are proposing to take new powers of astonishing breadth, which will involve the ability to - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Over 1 million deaths were successfully registered under provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020. - Speech Link
3: None We have had guest appearances by a number of Ministers from various departments, so it is a pity that - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I and my fellow Ministers, including those at the MoJ, understand the intent behind this amendment, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) legislation and do not get it drafted by Government lawyers, there is always something faulty with it, and Ministers - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) The coronavirus pandemic in 2020 led to many households deciding to buy or adopt new pets in their homes - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill: Stage 1 - Thu 18 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: None right to be thinking about postponements, because Governments were caught in no man’s land during the Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) something happens once the Parliament has been dissolved, there will be no MSPs, but there will be ministers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Since then, Government Ministers have had countless opportunities to row back from or U-turn on that - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) I would have thought he would; I would have thought that Treasury Ministers would want to put as much - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) For example, with the coronavirus loan programmes, Labour is conflating moneys that have not repaid because - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) The industry has noted the Government’s commitment to honour the sunset clause, and I urge the two Ministers - Speech Link


Select Committee
China Strategic Risks Institute
MUL0004 - International relations within the multilateral system

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: ●The Cabinet Office should review rules and restrictions regarding former UK officials and Ministers


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 16 2024

Source Page: UK Government to tackle global financial corruption
Document: https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/aldcafrica2020_en.pdf (PDF)

Found: As countries scramble to respond to the global health emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019