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Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (Con - Wyre and Preston North) I thank them all the way.I was going to list all my civil servants—not all 240,000 from the Ministry - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (Con - West Suffolk) I thank all the civil servants with whom I served and worked so closely, but I also want to put in a - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) The staff are the unsung heroes who make democracy work so that we can do our job.I thank my civil servants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Ogmore) The recruitment process normally lasts eight months, yet the Government are speeding up that process. - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) the Seoul summit, which is bringing together AI nations, AI companies and top experts in academia and civil - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) health, but I cannot think of a single example where that duty of candour should not apply to all public servants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Andrea Jenkyns (Con - Morley and Outwood) On Monday, The Daily Telegraph reported that civil servants are trying to block an amendment to the Criminal - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) It also notes that in real terms civil legal aid fees have now halved compared with what they were 28 - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We are also rolling out the review of civil legal aid, which will report later this year. - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) On bailiff recruitment issues, we are running recruitment campaigns and have reduced administrative burdens - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Permanent Secretaries: Appointment and Removal (Constitution Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) The commission regulates recruitment into the Civil Service and hears appeals from civil servants under - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) I recall meeting civil servants who had been sent to INSEAD, and I think the idea of sending civil servants - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) It in turn specifically states that this includes the recruitment of civil servants, and this is reiterated - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Illegal Immigration: Costs - Tue 07 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Andrea Jenkyns (Con - Morley and Outwood) We also need to stop those leftie lawyers and unionised civil servants from preventing a democratically - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) And when the Home Office tells them that it will send civil servants to Rwanda to work, they also have - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The recruitment is now concluding and new judges will be appointed and trained and will start sitting - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) They have talked about an additional team of civil servants. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) servants just to make their spending plans add up. - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) We do not have the luxury of that time.I have been critical of Ministers and senior civil servants, but - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) servants, as the Secretary of State set out. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) The Bank and the Treasury are staffed by many professional, committed public servants. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab - Life peer) by-election—heard of it for the first time when the Chancellor announced it to the governor and his Treasury civil - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) vacancies to a wide group of people and, to improve the reach of an advert or opportunity, sometimes uses recruitment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World ME Day - Wed 01 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Member for Bromsgrove has: when a group of MPs works on a cross-party basis and makes noise like this, civil - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) We will speed up recruitment to trials and give more people the chance to participate. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Spending - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) The last time this Government pledged to increase defence spending by cutting the number of civil servants - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) Are their numbers vulnerable alongside those of other civil servants to pay for this deal? - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) My Lords, in introducing the Statement, the Defence Secretary said:“we will remove 72,000 civil servants - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Accommodation is critical in recruitment and retention. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Buckland Review of Autism Employment - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) realise in a happy and healthy workplace.I put on record my thanks to Stephen Lismore and the team of civil - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) individual businesses, but recruitment consulting agencies. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) They just struggle with how to do it and so regress to the same old recruitment. - Speech Link
4: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) That is why the task group has an important role.I am grateful to the civil servants who work with the - Speech Link