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

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) That is simply unsustainable.The MoJ has at least now resurrected an earlier recruitment campaign that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) servants from the Home Office, broken down by grade, had visited prisons in the last eight years. - Speech Link
3: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) servants dedicated to bringing about system and culture change. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) The report identifies some of the challenges with the present recruitment process, for example. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police Grant Report - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) the Policing Minister to appreciate the debt of gratitude that is owed to those dedicated public servants - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) In March 2024, at the time of the last recruitment intake, there were 149,769 officers by headcount, - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) The Labour police and crime commissioner for Avon and Somerset has just had to cancel the recruitment - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) How will current recruitment and resourcing dovetail into the new force structures? - Speech Link
5: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Instead, the police force has been forced to cut community support officers by 43%, freeze recruitment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 06 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berger (Lab - Life peer) We understand that he has a wealth of civil servants and legal experts at his disposal; perhaps they - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) the social care workforce is under sustained pressure: vacancy and turnover rates remain high; recruitment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) If you raise that age, it means that those recruitment people can go around saying, “You’re okay. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) She proposes replacing it with a defence to criminal or civil charges. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The 2024 Civil Service survey found that only a third of National Crime Agency staff thought they had - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Civil Service Pension Scheme: Administration - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) Last week Cat Little, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, wrote to civil servants to admit that - Speech Link
2: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) servants are needed, why is the work not being done inside the civil service? - Speech Link
3: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) Civil servants give their working lives to this country in good faith. - Speech Link
4: Ann Davies (PC - Caerfyrddin) Retired and retiring civil servants left in this position should seek, and have, compensation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - Wed 04 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) affected by those changes are, of course, those who work in the public sector and, in particular, the Civil - Speech Link
2: Lord Altrincham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) projected yield.We have already seen the dampening effect of recent national insurance increases on recruitment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Lord Mandelson - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) Due diligence meant fast-stream civil servants having the opportunity to search open sources, so they - Speech Link
2: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) As I have said, that was looked at by civil servants on the fast stream. - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) I was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office—a great Department with great civil servants. - Speech Link
4: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) She kept referring to fast-stream civil servants as those responsible for vetting. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) We cannot understand the threat without understanding the civil-military fusion of the Chinese state. - Speech Link
2: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) Do you see any risk in this legislation as regards civil liberties and privacy? - Speech Link
3: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) Some comparative civil law jurisdictions in the rest of Europe start from a slightly different place, - Speech Link
4: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) is very difficult, not least because, from a position of criminalisation, it might be where other civil - Speech Link
5: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) servants want to see which boundaries are right to push and which are not, bodies such as the UK cyber - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None a time when the previous Labour Government started to lose momentum in reducing child poverty, and civil - Speech Link
2: None summer should include the kind of aspirational yet achievable targets and milestones called for by civil - Speech Link
3: Lord Wei (Con - Life peer) Proportionality lies at the very core of the balance between legitimate state regulatory power and civil - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) servants and the many excellent government amendments in this group that reflect that.I too think that - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) servants and Ministers since Committee. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None requiring funding revision, or(ii) an emergency has been declared within the meaning of section 1 of the Civil - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) already historically low with 64% believing the rail market will contract in 2026 and 62% freezing recruitment - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) these staff into its employment.We were told very clearly when the Committee began that this is not a civil - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) the taxpayer is not forgotten in the deliberations between nationalised Great British Railways and civil - Speech Link