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Lords Chamber
Retail and Hospitality Sector - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Dacres of Lewisham (Lab - Life peer) my IT career within investment banks and bringing up my son, the honourable Darnell Dacres, as a single - Speech Link
2: Lord Forbes of Newcastle (Lab - Life peer) Jews, Muslims, LGBT people, asylum seekers, single parents and many others have been, and continue to - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Families will benefit from day-one rights for paternity, parental and bereavement leave. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) Instead, they made a conscious decision to stand up and try to change the lives of other families. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Sadly, like other noble Lords, I know families who have been touched in similar ways. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cass (XB - Life peer) It is also important to think about how to reach those harder to reach families or marginalised families - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) In one Demos focus group, every single girl had received unsolicited sexual images. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parental Leave and Pay Review - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) noble friend agree to consider urgently bringing the conclusions of the review forward so that young families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We have already held 12 round tables, and we have engaged with business groups, academics and parent - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) bigger challenge is that the scheme goes back to the late 1800s, and a lot of aspects of modern families - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) However, we have to get the balance right, so the review will carefully weigh up the benefits for families - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Better-skilled jobs are good for the economy and good for families. That is the way forward. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Water (Special Measures) Act 2025: Enforcement - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) about volume, and not just hours of sewage dumping, is key.The River Nidd, which once brought joy to families - Speech Link
2: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) The payments made to the chief executive of Yorkshire Water, Nicola Shaw, through the offshore parent - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) As we move towards a new single regulator, we have to preserve the DWI’s culture, expertise and robustness - Speech Link
4: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) It is a lifeline for biodiversity, for families and countryside lovers and for the whole natural world - Speech Link
5: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) and dedicated supervisory teams to replace the current one-size-fits-all approach and give the new single - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Disclosure and Barring Service - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) of the current system and that the Minister will consider my proposed improvements so we can help families - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) I speak as somebody who knows what drug addiction can do, and what it costs families. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sale of Fireworks - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) The last August to December period was one of the worst that I can ever remember, with families being - Speech Link
2: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) Those impacts are not confined to a single night, but repeated over weeks and months, creating prolonged - Speech Link
3: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) Such late-night use affects not just pet owners, but shift workers, families with young children, families - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) I can say from my own experience back when I was a parent of young children how terrifying it was for - Speech Link
5: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) My condolences go to the families and friends of all who lost their lives in that devastating event. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) If we are to think of the state as a statutory parent, as it is to children in care, surely we should - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) In fact, over the past 12 months, the Home for Good charity talked to a large number of families who - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) The Families First Partnership programme will total £2.4 billion over the next three years. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) To achieve that, there will be proactive health outreach to families in temporary accommodation, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) What steps she is taking to ensure that families of children with SEND have early access to support. - Speech Link
2: Darren Paffey (Lab - Southampton Itchen) What steps she is taking to ensure that families of children with SEND have early access to support. - Speech Link
3: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) Families in Harlow have completely lost faith in the SEND system that we inherited. - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) If the threshold is not increased, by 2028 a child from a single-parent household with a parent working - Speech Link
5: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) My thoughts remain with all the children and families who have been affected. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None 63: Clause 12, page 18, line 3, at end insert— “(1A) After section 16, insert—“16A Registration of parent - Speech Link
2: None It would not impose a single approach or override devolved competence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Imagine if it were your child, an elderly parent or a close friend facing this sort of treatment alone - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) recent reports of a crime wave due to violent prisoners having been released early, surely every single - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (XB - Life peer) legislation existed that made that kind of offence unacceptable.As has been outlined, there is no single - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) in this way feel that they do not get the help that they need.As has been described, there is no single - Speech Link
5: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) I single out the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, for whom we all have enormous respect as a former - Speech Link