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Westminster Hall
Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment Practices - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We thank them dearly, and we mean that.It is also always great to be here in Westminster Hall to give - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) ourselves under pressure when it comes to the obvious issues of exploitation.There was a debate in Westminster - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill
3rd reading - Fri 17 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) I think that, at my last count, we had 13,000 licensed premises in Westminster alone, and as a former - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) As ever, I take my hat off to the cleansing services of Westminster City Council: they deliver every - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) legislation that really do not need further consideration, apart from the wisdom of discussions or debates - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature Deaths - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) Back-Bench debates are an opportunity to have these conversations and to raise concerns.Cardiovascular - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) We often have three hours for Backbench Business debates, but we have ended up with an hour. - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) As I highlighted in last month’s Westminster Hall debate on excess death trends, a recent article in - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) this Chamber or in Westminster Hall, because that is part of my duty.The number of people dying before - Speech Link
5: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) It is abundantly clear that while Scotland is tied to this place, Westminster and the British Government - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Scotland: Further Independence Referendum - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) of interest and engagement in all aspects of policy, and the healthy workplace, coffee house and pub debates - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Westminster plans to rob our resources at its leisure. - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Friend the Member for East Lothian (Kenny MacAskill) set out in a Westminster Hall debate this morning - Speech Link
4: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) As an option, a referendum has been put beyond reach by Westminster and Whitehall, but Scotland will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The subjects for these debates were determined by the Backbench Business Committee.Friday 19 April—Private - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) the plan is working when, on Thursdays, the Opposition focus not on these real-world facts but on the Westminster - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Members: “Hear, hear.]On behalf of the Committee, let me say that our debates in the Chamber are now - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We had a Westminster Hall debate on 5 September last year about British nationals who are detained overseas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Antisemitic Offences - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He has always been positive in his response to these debates, and he encapsulates our concerns and requests - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) around on social media of Lasair Dhearg activists—those of a nationalist opinion—projecting on to city hall - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) are times and there are places, and this was neither the time nor the place.It is customary to start debates - Speech Link
4: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), who ran here—no Westminster Hall debate would be the same without - Speech Link


Select Committee
2023-10-17 16:15:00+01:00

Oral Evidence Oct. 17 2023

Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debates
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Backbench Business Committee

Found: Chair: That would be a Westminster Hall debate. Sir Robert Neill: Understood.


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 02 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The subjects for these debates were determined by the Backbench Business Committee.Friday 10 May—The - Speech Link
2: Ian Mearns (Lab - Gateshead) age for women.All Chamber slots up to the Whitsun recess are now allocated, but we still have several Westminster - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Gentleman again for advertising the forthcoming Backbench Business debates. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Citizenship Test - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) state and take away some of the stigma, of which we have sadly seen too much in recent immigration debates - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) I welcome the Minister to her first outing in Westminster Hall. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Here we are in Westminster Hall, a building that has gone through the centuries and has told the story - Speech Link


Select Committee
2023-07-04 16:15:00+01:00

Oral Evidence Jul. 04 2023

Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debates
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Backbench Business Committee

Found: Do you have any knowledge of any other debates about this specific element?