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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) I am happy to commit to write and respond to those questions. - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In some cases, they have to travel one and a half to three hours to go to them. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wei (Con - Life peer) Parents are left to navigate a patchwork of centres, fees, refusals, capacity limits and inconsistent - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, that there have to be some limits to what a faith community - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It includes the provision, under parliamentary scrutiny, to impose limits on that pay.It might be a difficult - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Start-up Companies - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) establish themselves but to thrive. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) That incremental growth would make a big difference to our economy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) It includes the AI growth zones which are being announced and include full access to energy as part of - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Defence Industry: Environmental, Social and Governance Requirements - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) I remind Members to bob if they wish to be called. - Speech Link
2: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) The company then has to go out to lenders to try to get financing to cover the shortfall, because the - Speech Link
3: Luke Akehurst (Lab - North Durham) However, broader structural issues continue to act as a barrier to unlocking growth in defence. - Speech Link
4: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) Today, partly thanks to the growth of the regulatory burden on defence firms, we have fallen to seventh - Speech Link


Written Statements
Police Funding Settlement 2026-27: England and Wales - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) police forces and wider system funding, will be up to £21.0 billion, an increase of up to £1.3 billion - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) Up to this point, it has been down to each individual company to negotiate. - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) have regard for security threats or to support economic growth. - Speech Link
3: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) They also need to be allowed to evolve over time, to ensure that they are most relevant to GBR’s planned - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) The expansion is expected to support an extra 1,800 of the highest growth scale-up companies over the - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) How many companies just above the existing threshold are expected to utilise these expanded limits? - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) that, from April 2026, the EIS annual company investment limits will increase to £10 million, or £20 - Speech Link
4: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) 20%, keeping the relief at its current level to support investment in high-growth firms. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None of State’s power to give directions to Great British Railways to a last resort.Amendment 13, in clause - Speech Link
2: None This amendment limits the Secretary of State’s power to give directions to Great British Railways to - Speech Link
3: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) give guidance, as opposed to direction, to GBR. - Speech Link
4: None guidance to GBR in relation to fares. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) 15 provide for that—the strategic authority will need to have, in addition to a local growth plan, an - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, we will come to local growth plans and culture. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) strategy and not trying to retrofit the housing to meet the local growth requirements. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) the tools to tackle the obstacles to growth and improve the lives of people in their area, and to do - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) It is up to us to gather the political will to do the same, which I am sure we will hear articulated - Speech Link
2: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) Given that we have a growth policy that aims to support UK bus manufacturing, does the hon. and learned - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) To meet global net zero goals, all buses—or at least the vast majority of them—will need to switch to - Speech Link
4: John Milne (LD - Horsham) That amounts to a major contribution, both to the economy and of course to employment.However, the only - Speech Link
5: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) For years, manufacturers have told us that the biggest barrier to growth is lack of visibility of future - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Broadband: Installation - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) I beg to move,That this House has considered the impact of the time taken to install gigabit capable - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) wait for Openreach to get around to it, despite the fact that, in the meantime, everybody has to pay - Speech Link
3: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) We are waiting for the Government to respond to a consultation. - Speech Link
4: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) I referred to Openreach’s comments to me. - Speech Link
5: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) I am happy to engage with Openreach if it wants to make a representation to me.To ensure that the commercial - Speech Link