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Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 05 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) , indeed, human welfare. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Animal welfare is a cause very close to my heart; I spent nine years on the Farm Animal Welfare Council - Speech Link
3: Earl of Courtown (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and dog-to-human disease. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) bringing a dog from overseas has increased animal health and welfare risks. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (Lab - Life peer) rightly worry about the cost of living—a lot of which has to do with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine—welfare - Speech Link
2: Lord McCabe (Lab - Life peer) We need to improve the interactions of our justice, social welfare and education structures. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the House has been very encouraging of the noble Lord, but he is two minutes over the advisory - Speech Link
4: Lord Glenarthur (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , it is they who help to generate the funds for or sustain the skills that reservists provide.My advisory - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None landlord’s experience with a previous tenant about pets;(f) generalised or unsubstantiated animal welfare - Speech Link
2: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I start by declaring an interest: I own a dog that is subject to approval by a superior landlord - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) the judgment and take into account whether the applicant, perhaps a night-shift worker with a large dog - Speech Link
4: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) As he also pointed out, keeping a pet, particularly a dog—we are probably mainly concerned with what - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) A Government Whip resigned, expressing her deep concerns over the welfare Bill, and the Government have - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Can the Leader of the House positively and personally now confirm that the welfare Bill vote will take - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Gentleman is absolutely right that reform to the welfare system has to be done with compassion and be - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I ask colleagues to think about the principles of welfare reform on Second Reading, and to then really - Speech Link
5: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend sounds like a dog with a bone. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) sex offence.(2) A police force must notify any organisation that has responsibilities for a child’s welfare - Speech Link
2: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) Thousands of disabled people have protested against proposed welfare and disabled benefit changes. - Speech Link
3: None employers may not employ etc barred persons) to (Special police forces: barred persons lists and advisory - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) — I do not want us to simply get into a situation where we are saying that, because people are on welfare - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) that the powers are in pursuit of a legitimate aim: here, to reclaim overpayment of money paid to welfare - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As the noble Lord said, the money and advisory services are there, and Citizens Advice is there. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
USAID Funding Pause - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) Domestically, the proposed cuts to welfare mean that disabled people are facing a life of forever poverty - Speech Link
2: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) On global security, the Mines Advisory Group, a leading mine NGO, has been forced to shut down its operations - Speech Link
3: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) of dividing people, sowing discord and creating disharmony and suspicion—creating a society that is dog - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) In that area, funding to the Mines Advisory Group and the HALO Trust—great examples of British NGOs—has - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Tue 20 May 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Anneliese Midgley (Lab - Knowsley) Cinderella was their favourite.At home she would dress her dog Gizmo up in a blanket and put him in a - Speech Link
2: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) contact visit, permitted by that court and allowed to go ahead by the Children and Family Court Advisory - Speech Link
3: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service—CAFCASS—relies on outdated, prejudiced views - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) A child’s welfare must always be the family court’s paramount consideration when making decisions about - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) Stamping out public sector fraud, including public authority and welfare fraud, is clearly a priority - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) I am also the patron of the Fraud Advisory Panel—a charity with offices at and financially supported - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) That amounts to about 2.8% of welfare spending. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Navigating the welfare system is already challenging. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The Bill is tough on those who commit fraud against our public services or our welfare state. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 14 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) Gentleman’s concern for the welfare of young people online, which is why so many provisions have been - Speech Link
2: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) some of the algorithms being deployed, and at how we can act to keep children safe and benefit their welfare - Speech Link
3: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) Their own Migration Advisory Committee told Ministers that recruiting more care workers required improved - Speech Link
4: Alison Griffiths (Con - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) My constituent Victor Franklin was made severely disabled after a savage dog attack left him with multiple - Speech Link