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Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 10 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) on the role of the Lords, if it were elected, and have a referendum to see whether the public actually - Speech Link
2: None On the question of a referendum, there was no need for a referendum in the Bill that was published in - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) myself rather out on the extreme wing on this, but I certainly think there is a strong case for a referendum - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) At the time, the Liberal Democrats saw that as part of a programme to entrench a Lib Dem hold on future - Speech Link
5: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) award a peerage to an individual on the basis that they were not a proper person to hold a peerage. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Proportional Representation: General Elections - Thu 30 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) to have a winner-takes-all culture on the basis of a third of the country’s vote. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Ranger (Lab - Wrexham) Even the Brexit referendum got only a 72% turnout. - Speech Link
3: Lisa Smart (LD - Hazel Grove) a large majority on barely a third of the vote. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Lewin (Lab - Welwyn Hatfield) It might seem distant today, but 2031 is a generation on from the last referendum and that strikes me - Speech Link
5: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) I am well aware that we had a referendum on the alternative vote system in 2011. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) on the Government to make a comprehensive veterinary and SPS agreement with the EU. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) Lady Hoey, and the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, about it throwing a light on the flexibility. - Speech Link
3: Lord Caine (Con - Life peer) I also spoke on this before I became a Minister, when I was a member of the same committee as the noble - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) to press a vote, because I want to get it on the record. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health and Adult Social Care Reform - Mon 06 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) the highest November on record for A&E attendances. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) On the workforce, when we were consulting on this in opposition, we found a real willingness on the part - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) The Secretary of State for Education set a cap on the profits that can be made in the children’s care - Speech Link
4: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) We had a referendum and two subsequent general elections on the issue of Brexit, and I can tell the hon - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Wed 11 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) One of the schools in my area has posed a question on VAT. - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) , within six months of the Act being passed, to make a statement to Parliament on the impact of the changes - Speech Link
3: Shivani Raja (Con - Leicester East) a tax on education, and the reality on the ground is deeply concerning. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Perhaps he could come and take a seat on the Benches. - Speech Link
5: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) rates for additional dwellings are having on the housing market as a whole, and in particular on the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading: Part 2 - Wed 11 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab - Life peer) as an honour, on one hand, and as a working peerage on the other. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Thurso (LD - Excepted Hereditary) on the other major events but would have a strong effect on the future of the House.That is my observation - Speech Link
3: Lord Wrottesley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I stand here for the third time in a row on the graveyard shift. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) here as to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin; but it seems that the Lords temporal on the - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) There should be a cap on the size of the House. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Wed 11 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) As proposed by the Lord Speaker’s Committee, this could be avoided by having a limit on the size of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) because of a deal reached by Conservative and Labour leaders in the Lords a quarter of a century ago - Speech Link
3: Lord Wakeham (Con - Life peer) I was for some years the chairman of a royal commission on the future of the House of Lords, invited - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) The hon. Member touches on a fundamental. - Speech Link
2: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) Why would a President of the United States do a trade deal with the United Kingdom if the UK has a back - Speech Link
3: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) He talks about doing a deal with the United States of America on trade. - Speech Link
4: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) On the issue of a hard border, will the Minister give way? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Civil Service: Politicisation - Thu 28 Nov 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) But the occupation of this crucial post by a spad is bound to throw some doubt on the objectivity of - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) especially following the Brexit referendum. - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) As a result, he brought me on to the department’s policy board—the top board in the department.But that - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Like the noble Lord, Lord Hannett, I am on a learning curve. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations 2024 - Wed 27 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) must be a border down the Irish Sea; but, on the other, the regulations before us do not comply with - Speech Link
2: None All the money spent on building the border posts comes at a huge cost to the taxpayer, but can the Minister - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) vote on the Brexit referendum, many of us have insisted that there was a need for a special status for - Speech Link