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Lords Chamber
Standards in Public Life - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None also publishing Ministers’ interests, gifts and hospitality more frequently and reforming severance payments - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) He has been at the funeral of my namesake in Kirkwall today.I wish to talk about the broader issues in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) a couple of seconds late, and obviously I understand that the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, is at the funeral - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lorraine Beavers (Lab - Blackpool North and Fleetwood) There have been late pension payments, missing lump sums, lost records, broken systems and long delays - Speech Link
2: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab - Suffolk Coastal) That is a year of not being able to make mortgage payments and the like, payments he should be able to - Speech Link
3: Leigh Ingham (Lab - Stafford) To this day, his family have received no pension payments to help cover the funeral costs or mounting - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) His lump sum and monthly payments were due to start on the 12th, but he has received nothing. - Speech Link
5: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) Can she guarantee that pension payments will be stabilised fully and permanently? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) My Lords, my noble friend Lord Sharkey sends his apologies; he is at a funeral and will read Hansard - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) this approach is that no member will have to make a complex decision on how to take their pension payments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
2nd reading - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Milne (LD - Horsham) It confirmed to me last year that it is examining the cost of exempting military compensation payments - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) reserve pay last year, 2024-25, amounted to £135.3 million, with a further £32 million for bounty payments - Speech Link
3: Josh Babarinde (LD - Eastbourne) At her funeral earlier this month, I restated to her sons Les and Simon Haffenden and to all her loved - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Inflation - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) energy prices; the funding being taken away from our primary producers—our farmers—such as delinked payments - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) I was thinking, when I attended his funeral a few years ago, what an effect he had at a grassroots level - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
2nd reading - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Currently, payments in respect of service before 1997 are not uprated with inflation, and affected members - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) My noble friend Lady Kramer, who is attending a funeral this afternoon, had intended to speak to this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I welcome the acknowledgment of the injustice of the pre-1997 frozen payments, with the oldest people - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) There is a provision in Clause 10 which allows conditions to be set on making payments. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Reintroducing tax credits on dividend payments and cutting stamp duty on UK share purchases are among - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) Following a string of shocking cases in which funeral directors did not treat the bodies of the deceased - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office is at a funeral - Speech Link
2: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) We consulted in the summer, including on late payments and reforming social value, and we are going to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lauren Sullivan (Lab - Gravesham) This morning, I had the honour of attending the funeral of Makhan Singh, a kind and dedicated public - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) under consecutive Governments, millions of pounds of public money has gone to waste on interest payments - Speech Link
3: None made for statutory payments made by employers for cancelling, moving or curtailing a shift to be treated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill
2nd reading - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Julian Smith (Con - Skipton and Ripon) regulations I brought in as Secretary of State on behalf of the last Conservative Government on victims’ payments - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) yet we are still arguing about it even today.Let me take us back about a month to Norman Tebbit’s funeral - Speech Link
3: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) I missed Tim’s funeral—something I regret to this day. - Speech Link