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Lords Chamber
Creative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity Growth - Thu 06 Feb 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Brennan of Canton (Lab - Life peer) Labour Peer under a Labour Government, and I am proud to support that Labour Government. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) I know that the Government have launched a consultation, but strong concerns remain. - Speech Link
3: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The combination of import VAT and customs checks has turned what was once a smooth process into a bureaucratic - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The Irish Government are offering 2,000 artists a basic income of €325 a week over three years. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) There is a building there and a facility which was built only 25 years ago with public investment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Feb 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) During their 14 long years in government, they failed to put in place a proper plan to crack down on - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) That is down from a peak of 21% in early 2020, during the covid pandemic, when some of the controls were - Speech Link
3: Jon Trickett (Lab - Normanton and Hemsworth) If so, that is a massive incursion into the liberty that the British people hold dear. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) being recovered from public sector fraud in 10 years, which is a welcome figure.However, the Government - Speech Link
5: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) For search and seizure, a warrant would be granted by a judge. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Speech and Language Therapy - Mon 27 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) light.Today I am introducing a debate on a topic that we so often take for granted, particularly those - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) I draw attention to Gillian Rudd, who is in the Public Gallery and is a senior lecturer at Birmingham - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) I am pleased to report that she is now a 19-year-old who is nothing but forthright in her ability to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Creative Industries - Mon 27 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) The previous Government rightly identified that where we can create a cluster around a creative industry - Speech Link
2: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) I recognise that there were some decisions during covid, but they were against a backdrop of long-term - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) the Minister will be appearing before us for the final episode of a very long-running inquiry into film - Speech Link
4: Jo Platt (LAB - Leigh and Atherton) For the Labour Government, this is a pivotal moment—a chance to make culture truly accessible for all - Speech Link
5: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) business cannot supply into the EU market—and therefore, sadly, into a part of the United Kingdom, namely - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 18 Dec 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) On my noble friend’s report, was there a government response? - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) is a core principle of what the Government are arguing for. - Speech Link
3: None We know that handing public assets to private companies in the hope they will return a public benefit - Speech Link
4: Lord Freyberg (XB - Excepted Hereditary) funds “lost” during the Covid-19 pandemic. - Speech Link
5: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) It is always a pleasure to bring AI into a Bill that really does not want to have AI in it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 03 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Luke Murphy (Lab - Basingstoke) Government are asking those with the broadest shoulders to pay a bit more to help repair our broken public - Speech Link
2: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) If we keep throwing money into public services without a serious plan for structural reform, we fail - Speech Link
3: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) covid—one of the biggest public finance interventions this country has seen, which took place only a - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) There were covid contracts that cost this country millions and a £22 billion black hole; that is what - Speech Link
5: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) public services in Scotland, and to engage in a meaningful dialogue with the Scottish Government, so - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Grenfell Tower Inquiry - Mon 02 Dec 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) took decisive action to uncover the truth, initiating a public inquiry to learn lessons and implement - Speech Link
2: Joe Powell (Lab - Kensington and Bayswater) inquiry is just one of many recent high-profile public inquiries into state injustices, whether that - Speech Link
3: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) No public inquiry has taken place into an aviation accident since 1972 and there has not been a public - Speech Link
4: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) The problem with a public inquiry is that it starts from ground zero. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) billion black hole in the public finances—a series of commitments made by the previous Government which - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) There are so many other areas where the Government have driven a dagger into our economy that if your - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) Of course the Government inherited a bad situation, as the costs of Covid and war in Europe were funded - Speech Link
4: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) put our debt on a sustainable path.The brutal truth is that, during 15 years of Conservative government - Speech Link
5: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, having trussed themselves into a fiscal straitjacket to get elected, the Government are to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Cat Eccles (Lab - Stourbridge) I am pleased that the Government are appointing a covid corruption commissioner to investigate fully - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) That is injecting a dangerous short-termism into the economy.The truth is that the Government can really - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (Ind - Leeds East) A Labour Government should eradicate child poverty, not allow more children to fall into poverty. - Speech Link
4: David Baines (Lab - St Helens North) This Budget provides the largest cash injection into the NHS outside covid since 2010, but the Government - Speech Link
5: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Reform is urgent, because we cannot simply spend our way to better public services.This is a Government - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Science and Technology: Economy - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The Government spend over £20 billion a year on R&D. - Speech Link
2: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) Alistair Darling, who was a great public servant and a very good Chief Secretary and Chancellor. - Speech Link
3: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) service, rather like a car going into a garage. - Speech Link