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Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Medical and Funeral Expenses - Mon 28 Sep 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) funerals programme has been enhanced. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It is a sliding scale, but it is applied in an open-hearted and generous-minded way, and there are relatively - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) are delivered respectfully and with care, both for the individuals and their families. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Historic Churches: Covid-19 - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He and I came into this House at the same time and are friends. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 May 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) farms and in processing factories and the pickers, delivery drivers and, of course, shop workers who - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) law and drivers’ hours and extended delivery hours. - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) practice and publish guidance on social distancing and hygiene, to keep staff and customers safe. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) That is in addition to online church services, bereavement counselling, marriage preparation and marriage - Speech Link
5: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) may have difficulty coming in between funerals, but the point she makes is very valid and has absolutely - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19 - Mon 11 May 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) The same applies to the ambiguous situation relating to funerals and cremations, which is causing enormous - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) , precision and detail, not bluff and bluster. - Speech Link
3: Mark Pritchard (CON - The Wrekin) and Pensions, and HMRC and DWP staff have responded. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) The complications of isolation make bereavement more challenging, and I pray that all can find peace, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Coronavirus Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Tue 24 Mar 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) Rough sleepers and those living and sleeping in shared spaces such as hostels, night shelters and day - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Rochester (Bishops - Bishops) and the way we treat the dying, the dead and the bereaved. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) , that they can get to and from work and that their loved ones are okay while they are at work, and they - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) , who raised issues about funerals and religious beliefs as concerns the need for burial and not cremation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bereavement Services - Thu 13 Feb 2020
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) across local and central government. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) streamlining “bereavement bureaucracy” and deliver a much better deal for grieving people? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) utility companies and other organisations to collaborate and to have what my pension friends would call - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bishops - Bishops) Churches perform half of all funerals in the United Kingdom and offer ongoing bereavement support to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Historical Stillbirth Burials and Cremations - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Nothing can remove that pain and grief, of course, but we know from evidence that good bereavement care - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Some of these funerals are held behind closed doors and families are prohibited from attending. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) In October 2014, Mike and Tina contacted the bereavement service in Hull and asked to see what it could - Speech Link
4: Nadine Dorries (CON - Mid Bedfordshire) other baby loss charities and the royal colleges to produce a national bereavement care pathway. - Speech Link
5: Nadine Dorries (CON - Mid Bedfordshire) These include the national bereavement care pathway, the children’s funeral fund and the Parental Bereavement - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Funeral Plans: Regulation - Wed 05 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) and we intend to consider how we support the Government in looking at environmental funerals, funeral - Speech Link
2: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) It should go without saying that she has done a great deal, particularly on children’s funerals, and - Speech Link
3: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Action must and will be taken. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Funeral Fund - Wed 01 May 2019
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: John Bercow (Speaker - Buckingham) This is a matter of the utmost seriousness and sensitivity, and the track record of the hon. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Lady’s son Martin, and in support and memory of all parents who experience this most painful and tragic - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018, which was enacted last September. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) and others, I expect and am sure that all Departments - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Knife Crime - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: John Cryer (LAB - Leyton and Wanstead) Both Waltham Forest and Redbridge—I cover six wards in Waltham Forest and two and one third in Redbridge—have - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) looked at Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Boston and even New York, and then they came back and looked at Glasgow - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) them before and after school and at the weekends, to protect themselves—and then find themselves using - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) The more we can put that message out, and press, frankly, the Department of Health and Social Care and - Speech Link