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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) It is the worst year for graduate recruitment on record. Are they proud of that? [Interruption.] - Speech Link
2: Richard Tice (RUK - Boston and Skegness) Earlier this week I spoke to recruitment agents from up and down the country who told me that, essentially - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) We are failing to recognise that it is not the state, the Government or the civil servants, and certainly - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Men’s Day - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Maya Ellis (Lab - Ribble Valley) Those men—and women—want to be present parents, and we should enable them to be great public servants - Speech Link
2: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) They are veterans adjusting to civil life, older men being pushed out of the labour market, and men of - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) the Health Secretary sitting opposite me, let me highlight that the Government have not resumed recruitment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Specialist Manufacturing Sector: Regional Economies - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) They are used in implants and prosthetics in the healthcare sector and as jet engine coatings for civil - Speech Link
2: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) machines for women—horse-drawn sheds on wheels—who entered the ocean clad in vast garments, helped by servants - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) around business taxation: 68% said that costs rose faster than expected, and more than half froze recruitment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisoner Releases in Error - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) Across government, politicians and civil servants have been trying to improve accuracy and systems. - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) Home Affairs Select Committee and the Chief Inspector of Prisons have been highly critical of the recruitment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Bodies: Governance and Accountability - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) said in his speech earlier this year:“It is not about questioning the dedication or the effort of civil - Speech Link
2: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) of our broader approach to public service reform, we are keen to look not just at how we manage recruitment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Football Regulator - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) This was not a fair and open recruitment process. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) tightening the ministerial code, and indeed the whole process, so that at the beginning of the process civil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Remembrance Day: Armed Forces - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) Recruitment and retention are in crisis; more people leave our armed forces than join. - Speech Link
2: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) the service of the crown will one day be re-examined in the misplaced light of hindsight, then recruitment - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Recruitment was encouraged by local headmasters, particularly at Clee grammar and St James’ school. - Speech Link
4: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) that this time in November, around Remembrance Day, is one of the only times in the calendar that civil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Consideration of Lords message - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) between employer and employee is best exemplified by fairness and trust within a framework for recruitment - Speech Link
2: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) We are committed to full and comprehensive consultation with employers, workers, trade unions and civil - Speech Link
3: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) Having day one rights against unfair dismissal does not prevent an employer vetting and doing recruitment - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) a Bill was presented to Parliament only this week that provides for a duty of candour for public servants - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) servant, is a mistake, particularly when we look at other civil servants. - Speech Link
2: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) Just for the avoidance of doubt, this is not in any way to denigrate civil servants; when I was in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The Bill does not require that the post of Border Security Commander be reserved for existing civil servants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Josh Simons (Lab - Makerfield) Following publication in July of the civil society covenant—our ambitious plan to partner with civil - Speech Link
2: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) and more inclusive recruitment. - Speech Link
3: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Friend’s constituency, we met senior civil servants there, and we look forward to returning again in - Speech Link