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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Indeed, it is through the use of those powers that we saw two modern slavery convictions and 13 slavery - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) That does not apply for information about the national minimum wage. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Slavery was the right term. A change in the rules was made, but it was minor and quite inadequate. - Speech Link
4: Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Act in this context: it is a first responder referring victims of modern slavery into the national referral - Speech Link
5: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Modern slavery is a stain on our society as well as on our economy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Bill
Report stage part two - Wed 11 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) I urge noble Lords to reflect that in their contributions to the debate. - Speech Link
2: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) I declare an interest in that my PhD was on slavery. - Speech Link
3: None It is a vital national project. We have a moral obligation to get on with it. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sassoon (Con - Life peer) So we have no insurance through the planning process. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Clearly, the delivery of our national memorial to the Holocaust cannot come at the cost of our national - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Earning wages would mean contributing to taxes and national insurance, and paying for their own food - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) The first is modern slavery. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) Yet there was this whole focus on the national insurance waiver for three years, which goes both ways - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The sole modern slavery provision in the Bill would allow more foreign national offenders to be considered - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) insurance increase, new employment regulations and this Government’s handling of the economy. - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley South) I enjoyed a fantastic trip to the National Tennis Centre in November, and had the pleasure of meeting - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Earlier this week, top British tennis players called on the UK Government to invest in a new national - Speech Link
4: Peter Bedford (Con - Mid Leicestershire) insurance contributions and the introduction of yet another regulator, there will not be a hike in ticket - Speech Link
5: Luke Myer (Lab - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) What progress the National Church Institutions have made on improving safeguarding. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Solar Farms - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) May of Maidenhead, the former Prime Minister, did so much to champion the cause of combating modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) On food security and its importance to national security it is clear that it was a fake promise. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Friend and neighbour has said about national economic resilience. - Speech Link
4: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) I want my constituents to be part of the national conversation as we move towards net zero. - Speech Link
5: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) Does she agree that both have to work together under a clear national strategy? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration System - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) that support recognised refugees, and we will continue to take action against trafficking and modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We need to respect and recognise those contributions. - Speech Link
3: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) It is in the national interest that the Government get this right; I hope that that will happen, but - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) intervene much earlier to take action against this dangerous trade in people that undermines our national - Speech Link
5: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) He has been hit by horrendous national insurance contributions, and has invested thousands of pounds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] - Wed 07 May 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None The Office for National Statistics belatedly started analysing covid-related deaths data by religious - Speech Link
2: Jon Trickett (Lab - Normanton and Hemsworth) If the insurance industry got access to the data held on all of us by the NHS, they would be able to - Speech Link
3: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) The national underground asset register, as has been mentioned, could bring £4 billion to our economy - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Laws such as the national intelligence law, the cyber-security law and the anti-terrorism law compel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (Con - Daventry) Labour’s new national insurance job tax will hit clubs’ finances hard, with the Premier League saying - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Caerphilly) , and Parkinson’s is twice the national average. - Speech Link
3: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Football is irrevocably intertwined into our national story. - Speech Link
4: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) insurance hike faced by every club up and down the country. - Speech Link
5: Rupert Lowe (Ind - Great Yarmouth) insurance levied on player and staff wages. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
2nd reading - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) insurance contributions for employers, I urge the Government to continue listening to the SME sector - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) However, when taken with an increase in national insurance contributions at the same time, it is not - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) Now, we are looking forward to really strangulating increases in national insurance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) insurance contributions and the 6.7% increase in the national living wage coming into effect next week - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting) - Tue 18 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) We would want to return foreign national offenders; that is really positive. - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) People who are settled and have been paying tax and national insurance contributions for decades could - Speech Link
3: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) To be separated from a husband or wife by a national border is no small thing. - Speech Link