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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We also know that disability and poverty are strongly correlated, meaning that drivers with disabilities - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) My chair comes apart—the wheels come off, and the frame and the wheels sit on my front seat—and I do - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) This Government are committed to reducing disruption from street works and improving the efficiency of - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) on climate and biodiversity and an enhanced ecological literacy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) range of issues, including water efficiency and management. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) In Wandsworth, 26% of residents and 33% of children live in poverty after housing costs. - Speech Link
3: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) Winter is coming, and nearly 3 million households are living in fuel poverty, which is an absolute scandal - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Will the Minister and, if necessary, Ministers from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero meet - Speech Link
5: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) Cornish renewable energy and critical minerals can power the UK’s transition away from a fossil fuel-based - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) grass-roots groups, spanning areas such as child poverty, disability, youth justice and social care. - Speech Link
2: Lord Layard (Lab - Life peer) young people who are headed for lives of such poverty and also, in many cases, inactivity, at a cost - Speech Link
3: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) the incredible energy and power of the tech firms, which of course concentrate immense efforts on Ministers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) We are in an energy transition, and that is not a workable long-term solution. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) the installation of solar power and other energy-efficiency measures, such as installing LED lighting.On - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: Cost Caps for Landlords - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) private rented sectors to meet the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards are different. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Both consultations on the minimum energy efficiency standards for private and social rented homes sought - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) More than 600,000 social homes are in fuel poverty, so improving the energy efficiency of social homes - Speech Link
4: Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Lab - Life peer) efficiency, and that her department has a clear plan to implement this? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Pension Schemes Bill (Eighth sitting) - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Member for Torbay is absolutely right—and we want to understand and monitor the consolidation and scale - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) We know that older pensioners are the most likely to be in fuel poverty and to be struggling with the - Speech Link
3: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) The lesson of the 1980s and 1990s was about rising pensioner poverty at a time when the state pension - Speech Link
4: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) The new clause would promote regulatory clarity and efficiency through mandated guidance, protecting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) through the cracks and their needs will not be properly met and accounted for.Amendments 173 and 174 - Speech Link
2: None to and enhance the natural and local environment by protecting and enhancing valued landscapes and sites - Speech Link
3: None and support to local government, community energy groups, government departments and devolved Governments - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) for his continued commitment to energy security and net-zero objectives. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) They are indeed that, with all the fuel efficiency and everything else. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None fuel poverty, while helping our national energy security in the wider context. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) solar power and the efficiency thereof and the ground source heat pump. - Speech Link
3: None The building regulations set the energy efficiency and carbon emissions requirements for designing and - Speech Link
4: None This will save households hundreds of pounds each year on their energy bills and boost the nation’s energy - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) It also supports a transition to a low-carbon future and promotes renewable and low-carbon energy, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) We need it to deliver communities that are happy and cohesive, and to deliver fairness, stability and - Speech Link
2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) This is not just about comfort and health; it is about dignity, justice and fairness.Energy efficiency - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Warm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Wed 03 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Our review of the 2021 fuel poverty strategy made clear that progress has stalled and that we need a - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) poverty and escalating energy bills.What we have here is, in essence, a doubling of those who will be - Speech Link
3: None Living in fuel poverty has huge impacts on people’s health and there are knock-on costs for the NHS. - Speech Link
4: None to making progression towards our statutory duty to address and reduce fuel poverty. - Speech Link
5: None and a principle that guides our approach to tackling fuel poverty. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Living Standards: East of England - Wed 03 Sep 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) Child poverty levels run at one in three in Norwich once housing costs are factored in and, although - Speech Link
2: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) Gentleman is a champion of such issues in his constituency, and I agree: poverty is very often out of - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) investment in home energy efficiency, which will cut bills for years to come. - Speech Link