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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Social care is among the most vital and sensitive of the public services we provide. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) Social care is not going to strategic authorities; it will remain with local authorities. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It would add “cultural” to the other categories of well-being, alongside “economic” and “social”, for - Speech Link
4: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) Culture is used to bring people together and bring social cohesion. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Planning: Section 106 System - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The Government have a manifesto commitment to deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) invest public money in railways because they are significant enablers of all sorts of economic and social - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) eliminate taxpayer funding would be unrealistic, and would undermine the railway’s ability to achieve its social - Speech Link
3: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) For the purposes of the Bill, that is not the Dublin to Belfast Enterprise service, which is of course - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Bus Manufacturing - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) We need a stronger emphasis on social value, and I believe Ministers must now consider a 30% social value - Speech Link
2: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) , employment and social opportunities. - Speech Link
3: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) Clearly, one of those is social value, which we must do much more about. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retail and Hospitality Sector - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest (Con - Life peer) Particularly in rural England, local pubs are vital to combat loneliness and social isolation. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) Social interactions bring an abundance of good health and well-being benefits. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Shah (Lab - Life peer) High streets are not merely commercial spaces but social infrastructure. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rook (Lab - Life peer) through a local pub generates more than £8 of social value to the community in return. - Speech Link
5: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) This pub is a powerful testimony—an example of social enterprise in action. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) To this day, it always warms my heart when they reach out to me on social media to let me know how they - Speech Link
2: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) One of the great untapped potentials in developing countries is the enterprise and entrepreneurial spirit - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Medical Devices (Fees Amendment) Regulations 2026 - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Zubir Ahmed (Lab - Glasgow South West) In 2026-27, the fee will be part-subsidised by the Department of Health and Social Care, with the intention - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) inclusion, not social division. - Speech Link
2: None has said, social and community cohesion. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Look at delivering social care. - Speech Link
4: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) Rural housing enablers can help match social housing providers with landowners. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sale of Fireworks - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) only word of warning about licensed events is about ensuring that displays advertised in posts on social - Speech Link
2: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) A recent poll by the Social Market Foundation found that 91% of the British public would be open to partial - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) When I hear today that we are looking to consult on banning social media for under-16s, I do not think - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) a number of colleagues that we are not against people being sociable, and we are not against the social - Speech Link
5: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) Research from the Social Market Foundation found that one solution would be to reduce the noise limit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the voluntary, community and social enterprise - Speech Link
2: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) Government to seek support for Gympanzees to open the UK’s first fully accessible exercise, play and social - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) and that means getting kids off their phones and outdoors, which is why I back raising the minimum social - Speech Link
4: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) ever-present reminders of centuries of our history and a focal point for village life, providing space for social - Speech Link
5: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) We all know how important our historical buildings are, and their estimated social value is £55 billion - Speech Link