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Lords Chamber
Erasmus+ Eligibility: Asylum Seekers - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) enable institutions to collaborate with international partners on areas such as innovation and educational - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The projected special educational needs and disabilities funding deficit for 2028 is £6 billion and likely - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab - Life peer) lead authority and then passed on—an arrangement that is administratively cumbersome, slower than it needs - Speech Link
2: None Legislation requires that there needs to be a grants programme that is pan London. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We have a London Assembly and it needs to be able to hold the mayor to account on spending much more - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It needs to be adjusted. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) They are closest to the ground and most responsive to the day-to-day needs of communities. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-EU Customs Union - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) The Government sought to stimulate growth through a variety of investment incentives and educational - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) For others speaking in the debate, the time starts when they stand up, and that needs to be no more than - Speech Link
3: Lord Pitt-Watson (Lab - Life peer) That influence needs to be seen through the eyes of the savers—the millions of people who save through - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (RUK - Life peer) Some 93% of Scots think the NHS needs significant reform and our once-famous education system has gone - Speech Link
5: Lord Frost (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I think that is why they claim to think they can negotiate some sort of special customs arrangement—oddly - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) needs and require special hope. - Speech Link
2: None Many are dealing with unmet needs, special educational needs, mental health pressures, trauma, bullying - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) of their special educational needs and disabilities, but they have expressly excluded children who under - Speech Link
4: None educational provision” and insert “the institution is specially organised to make special educational - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Youth Unemployment - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) They will increase employment costs, complexity and risk for firms, particularly SMEs…Government needs - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) That is not good enough for those young people, and it is not good enough for this country, which needs - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) The current system needs to be reformed. - Speech Link
4: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) educational needs and disabilities. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Local Authority Children’s Services - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Surrey ignored those pleas and refused to give Eloise special educational needs and disabilities support - Speech Link
2: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) We will be setting out the full range of reforms that we will be making to the special educational needs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education Funding: Distribution - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) This chronic underfunding interacts directly with the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities - Speech Link
2: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) We have already invested in Best Start in Life hubs, and in leads on special educational needs and disabilities - Speech Link
3: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) educational needs and disabilities. - Speech Link
4: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) educational needs and disabilities. - Speech Link
5: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) educational needs and disabilities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Next week is Race Equality Week, with the theme “Change needs all of us”. - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) This was the week when the Leader of the Opposition told “Desert Island Discs” that Britain needs to - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) educational needs provision in Durham is at crisis point. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) My part of Devon is submerged, and needs better flood defences. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Best Start Family Hubs - Tue 27 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) twice as much in benefits as it cost, with positive impacts on health, SEND identification and educational - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, families with children with special needs or disabilities often have very particular needs - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) and family services practitioner in each family hub to support children and families with additional needs - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) Working with professional support in the hub, they can then be signposted to special services to give - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) This much more open approach now needs to be applied to crime statistics more generally. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) Reality needs to be injected with a bit of common sense. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Each organisation must assess what it needs to do for all its members of staff. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) However, I fear the Home Office needs to think again. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) This action needs to take place automatically before accounts are deleted. - Speech Link