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Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) government pension funds. - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) designated to administer Local Government Pension Scheme funds, because the existing administering authority - Speech Link
3: None As noble Lords are aware, a large proportion of employers in Local Government Pension Scheme funds are - Speech Link
4: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) Most local authority pension committees will not have a great deal of appetite for risk. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) Pension contributions represent a significant and growing share of local authority expenditure. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) anti-Vietnam War or Aldermaston protests.She has a varied repertoire: stop the police Bill; stop pension - Speech Link
2: None The occupier could, for example, be a local authority in that case. - Speech Link
3: Lord Strasburger (LD - Life peer) But the police, as a public authority, have a duty to facilitate protests, not prevent them. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) It is not for Ministers to implement that: it is for the local police, at a local level, to take a judgment - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) I also have a history of policy engagement with local authority pension funds, the Local Authority Pension - Speech Link
2: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) will be able to direct local authority pension schemes into the right place. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) If these asset pools can invest more broadly than just the local area, and local authority pension schemes - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Mining: Pollution - Thu 08 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) that the mine was operational, until Zambian independence in October 1964, the UK was the legal authority - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) The benefit of doing so will be not only to the local communities of which the noble Lord, Lord Oates - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Local agriculture and indigenous ways of life have been endangered.Of course, it is not just one company - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) This is how we minimise harm to nature, as well as harm to indigenous peoples and local communities, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free Bus Travel: Over-60s - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) In my view, it is right that each local authority now grasps the nettle and gets on with delivering the - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Local authority spending on concessionary travel, supported by the Government, is around £795 million - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) This includes multi-year allocations for local authorities under the local authority bus grant, totalling - Speech Link
4: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) local authority in the country should run its system.The Government’s approach, which I think is the - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) I include the Local Government Pension Scheme in that. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) Yet DC pension funds have only 9% of their overall equity allocation in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) I also have experience engaging with local authorities and their pension funds, in relation to both funding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alison Taylor (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) In my constituency, as in many others, small businesses are an important part of the local community. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) No, it is full of working farms, and he can speak with authority on this subject. - Speech Link
3: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) That money is more likely to be spent in our local shops, precincts and high streets. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Wed 10 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) the thousands of pounds that were put on mortgages under Liz Truss, the billions that were cut from local - Speech Link
2: Sorcha Eastwood (APNI - Lagan Valley) the point about what poverty means to our constituents, we are sitting in Northern Ireland with the local - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Does he agree that pensioners in particular were encouraged to withdraw funds from their pension funds - Speech Link
4: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) That is why it is vital that the Financial Conduct Authority investigates the briefings and leaks that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) It was welcomed by engineers, passengers, railway operators and local schools. - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham Edgbaston) to make decisions on how their local railways are run? - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Local decision making will not be stronger under the Bill. - Speech Link
4: Julia Buckley (Lab - Shrewsbury) Research shows that it would add £9 million a year to our local economy. - Speech Link
5: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Engineering works must be co-ordinated with local roads. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) This Government are also providing funds for free school meals in England and delivering free breakfast - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Will she encourage employers to work with local credit unions to help those who want to save automatically - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Pensioners in my constituency of Hartlepool who rely solely on the state pension have shared with me - Speech Link
4: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Will the Treasury commit to reviewing the funding formula, so that local government, integrated care - Speech Link
5: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) When will the Government agree to have the Financial Conduct Authority review the criteria for access - Speech Link