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Grand Committee
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) is a matter for those private schools. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) This is a small cost, but comes at a time when private schools are already facing higher costs from the - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is now firmly embedded, but it is under threat because it is so costly for schools to continue to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) There is a clutch of private schools in Newcastle upon Tyne. - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) Employment of staff is a matter for individual private schools. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st Sitting - Tue 25 Feb 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) either by getting intelligence or by correlating claimants’ data to build up a pattern, as in covid-19 - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) , is, I think, a limitation. - Speech Link
3: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) This is not so much in covid-19 frauds, because that has already happened, but a lot of these things - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) Personally, I think there needs to be a lot more in schools, but there is a lack of capacity in the schools - Speech Link
5: Michael Payne (Lab - Gedling) It is estimated that there was about £5.4 billion-worth of fraud and error in temporary covid-19 schemes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Wed 12 Feb 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) A novel is not just words, a song is not just notes and lyrics, and a painting is not just pixels or - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) transparency is on the face of it, I will back it in a flash; but until I see it, this is all that I - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Davies (Lab - Mid Derbyshire) protections in how it manages that data, is that it faces a threat from Russia and is keen to ensure - Speech Link
4: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) digital ID system, there is no equal right to a non-digital ID. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th Sitting - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) 1) must include the following information—(a) how many private schools have closed as a result of the - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) there in the DFE’s data.The idea that guidance has done the trick and that there is no longer a problem - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) but the truth is that there is no definition; smartphone is just a term. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Clearly no one is allowed to whip out a phone and make a call in the middle of a maths lesson—in fact - Speech Link
5: None the proprietor of an Academy is also the proprietor of a 16 to 19 Academy, a person (“P”) is not an - Speech Link


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) There is no soul in the machine. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Nye (Lab - Life peer) It was no surprise that his speech was about music: he is renowned as an expert on folk music, a musician - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) In another life, I was a reviewer of fringe theatre in London, and some of those venues are no longer - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) The Lowry is more than a building, more than theatres and more than a gallery; it is a catalyst for transformation - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) A 12-month apprenticeship is no good at all for employers who need skills for commissions that are shorter - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab - Hendon) It is a scourge that grew out of control and was professionalised under the last Government.Perhaps no - Speech Link
3: Jim Allister (TUV - North Antrim) But no longer is that the standard. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) Member for Mid Leicestershire, there is no doubt that had the Conservatives had longer, their policies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This is a mean-spirited attack on private schools, and Clause 5 raises many issues. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is a very difficult thing to keep track of. So that is one of the things that is there. - Speech Link
3: Lord Maude of Horsham (Con - Life peer) It is not just a triple whammy for independent schools but a quadruple whammy, and that will have an - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) All that demonstrates, however, is that the non-domestic ratings system is no longer fit for purpose. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Robin, a composer, told me that he could no longer advise young creatives to rely on a job in the industry - Speech Link
2: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) schools, with more than 40% of schools now no longer entering students for GCSE music or drama, and - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) It is a shame that the Marquee club is no longer with us and that so many venues still struggle, but - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) However, that funding is not guaranteed and is no longer directed at plugging the gaps in local authority - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) It is based on a film that is based on a book. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 23 Jan 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) of the increasing frailty of survivors, and that there will come a day when we no longer have living - Speech Link
2: Jo Platt (LAB - Leigh and Atherton) This day is not merely a reflection on a single tragedy in human history; it is a time to remember the - Speech Link
3: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) to build a better future, we must all look at what can be done to create a future that is no longer - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Bosnia is still experiencing tensions.The Minister for Housing and Planning, who is no longer in his - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Free Schools and Academies - Thu 23 Jan 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con - Life peer) However, in the form of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, there is a dark cloud on the horizon - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) The schools Bill is a counterrevolution, a retreat into failure. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Teacher recruitment and retention is a problem for all schools, but particularly for schools that are - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) That is true in a maintained school and in our trust schools. - Speech Link