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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Alister Jack (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) It is running over a three-year period and it averages out at £41.6 billion, and then there are Barnett - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Parliament’s own research as well as the Fraser of Allander Institute, the Scottish Government’s child poverty - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Child poverty is up. Life expectancy is falling. NHS waiting lists are up. Drug deaths are up. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I am also proud of our record to bring 200,000 pensioners out of poverty. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Women’s State Pensions (Compensation) - Wed 01 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) compensated financially for the losses we suffered … We now require compensation without a protracted period - Speech Link
2: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) Women are living longer and are more likely to live in poverty after retirement, with less savings than - Speech Link
3: Clark, Katy (Lab - West Scotland) One third of WASPI women are in debt, and one in four is living under the poverty line.In Ayrshire, it - Speech Link
4: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) When we were last in Government, we lifted a million pensioners out of poverty and introduced pension - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Motion of No Confidence - Wed 01 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) This Government’s actions are lifting an estimated 100,000 children out of poverty this year. - Speech Link
2: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) the focus back on the priorities of people right across the country.As we look ahead to the interim period - Speech Link
3: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) I used to think that there really was nothing new in politics, but I have to say that the current period - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Drug Deaths and Drug Harm - Wed 01 May 2024

Mentions:
1: None I am thinking about housing, employment and poverty. - Speech Link
2: None about families, communities, whole populations and, as you said, wraparound initiatives relating to poverty - Speech Link
3: None clinicians, but there were also social workers, peer workers and people who dealt with issues relating to poverty - Speech Link
4: None We have done an observational study with participants over a six-month period, and we have also supported - Speech Link


Select Committee
Fourth Report - The UK Small Island Developing States Strategy

Report May. 01 2024

Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: “patient diplomacy.”37 From 2018 onwards, the Government began to re-engage with SIDS, following a period


Written Question
Pensioners: Poverty
Wednesday 1st May 2024

Asked by: Marquess of Lothian (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Fabian Society report When I'm 64: A strategy to tackle poverty before state pension age, published on 17 April, which found that the number of people aged between 60 and the state pension age living in poverty increased by 140 per cent between 2010 and 2022, how many people currently aged over 60 and not yet eligible for the state pension are living in poverty.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The latest statistics show that in 2022/23, 20% (0.9m) of individuals aged over 60 and not yet eligible for the state pension were living in absolute poverty after housing costs.

Statistics on the number of individuals living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication at Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab). The latest available data with age breakdowns can be found on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. The latest statistics published on 21 March 2024 are for the financial period 2022/23.


Parliamentary Research
Senegal: 2024 presidential election - CBP-9990
Apr. 30 2024

Found: stability. 1 Election campaign Due to the postponement and rescheduling of the election, the campaign period


Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030
Document: AIaMD (PDF)

Found: include under -representation of that group within the trai ning and testing datasets (‘health data poverty


Select Committee
Disabled Children’s Partnership, National Network of Parent Carer Forums, and Kids

Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: Children’s social care
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: In that three-year period it had risen by £140 million broadly.


Commons Chamber
Port Talbot Steelworks - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Nor does it feel as if they have an anti-poverty strategy. - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) other plants in Wales—Shotton, Trostre and Llanwern—continue to receive product during that interim period - Speech Link