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Grand Committee
Donations to Political Parties - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Shah (Lab - Life peer) That is why I particularly welcome the focus on civic education throughout schooling. - Speech Link
2: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) The list includes Irish citizens, most Irish-registered companies, trade unions, building societies, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bi (Lab - Life peer) very recently, I was chair of the Patchwork Foundation, which supports young people interested in civic - Speech Link
2: Lord Redwood (Con - Life peer) that those who have committed crimes of violence, and who could go on to damage individuals and societies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) We have seen societies, time and time again, doing the well-meaning thing, and ending up costing everyone - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) We have only to look across the channel at France to see what a fiscal eruption can look like, with civic - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) Mutuals, including building societies and credit unions, play a key role in supporting local economic - Speech Link
2: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) including libraries, museums, theatres, music venues, studios and heritage sites—acts as a form of civic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Development Partnership Assistance - Thu 29 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) It allows us to shape environments before crises erupt, to stabilise societies emerging from violence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) world we live in defined by geopolitical competition, protracted conflicts and crises, and shrinking civic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) True remembrance demands leadership—moral, civic and institutional—that is willing to resist hatred in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) Holocaust was not a historical aberration but an eruption of a hatred that had long been embedded across societies - Speech Link
3: Lord Massey of Hampstead (Con - Life peer) to ensure that the public understand the Holocaust, what constitutes a genocide, and how fragile societies - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) 2025 in which the victims or offenders were students or academics, or which involved student union societies - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Science and Discovery Centres - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Steve Witherden (Lab - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr) I am happy to convey that ask.Through their role as trusted anchor institutions with strong civic ties - Speech Link
2: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) They maintain strong civic links with schools, teachers, industry, businesses and research partners, - Speech Link
3: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) Friend for her question and for her experience of science societies that she described so vividly. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Israel: Trade - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We are like-minded partners with shared values, free societies and open democracies. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) special privileges but has long sought to belong, to serve and to improve Britain through hard work and civic - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Town of Culture - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) It is not just a historical feature; it is a demonstration of civic pride in action. - Speech Link
2: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) drive investment in local assets—our parks, halls, libraries and heritage sites—that towns rely on for civic - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) giving it a unique cultural and economic heritage that is preserved in local museums and historical societies - Speech Link
4: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) tribute to the Halesowen Abbey Trust for its work on the Leasowes walled garden, which demonstrates the civic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) Victorian values, but there is one Victorian value that I would like to recommend to the House: the civic - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) affected the strength of our communities, we would find higher levels of loneliness, lower levels of civic - Speech Link
3: Lord Frost (Non-affiliated - Life peer) economy for which no political party really seems to have the appetite, and which perhaps ageing societies - Speech Link