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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Gregor Poynton (Lab - Livingston) One of the best ways of reducing child poverty is helping parents into good, stable and well-paid jobs - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) build towards an 80% employment rate, closing the gaps between disabled people and others and between parents - Speech Link
3: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) listed as eye disease are set to lose out from the reforms to PIP, with referrals to the RNIB’s counselling - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) financial support—for example, child benefit and the Sure Start maternity grant—may be available to parents - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pride Month - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Data from the UK longitudinal household survey shows that cohabiting parents were 3.4 times more likely - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) I have always loved to highlight that single parents can do this job.The hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) answers, but can she outline what support is in place for people of all faiths and none to receive counselling - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) make sure that when we legislate, that legislation does not inhibit proper, genuine, supportive counselling - Speech Link
3: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) views on independent schools, does she welcome this closure or would she like to apologise to the parents - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Courts Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) prosecutors and investigators were routinely requesting information about victims’ medical and counselling - Speech Link
2: None He was abused by his birth parents at 41 days old, and he was at death’s door. - Speech Link
3: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) It is really important, when we talk about the family courts and the impact on parents and children, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Her parents reported that she had gained no weight, had had regular periods and had been working night - Speech Link
2: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) Both she and her partner were arrested, her from her parents’ house and him from their baby’s cot side - Speech Link
3: Maya Ellis (Lab - Ribble Valley) Members have done their time making this world one thousand times better for mothers and parents, as - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None It just seems wrong to me that children in foster care should be forced to leave their foster parents - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Apart from having full-blood siblings, while he was growing up his amazing parents fostered more than - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) We heard of “pack the bag and go”, but I can tell of the opposite: foster parents, at their own cost - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) But now we recognise the contribution that parents who adopt children give. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
SEND Funding - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) I recently met SEND parents from Huddersfield to hear their experiences of the system. - Speech Link
2: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) There is a fear among parents that the rug will be pulled from under their feet. - Speech Link
3: John Milne (LD - Horsham) Sometimes I feel like I myself need counselling afterwards. - Speech Link
4: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab - Suffolk Coastal) I recently had quite a large conversation with many parents in my constituency. - Speech Link
5: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) Many parents who have come to me have been absolutely choked and suffocated by the system. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Mental Health Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) prioritising what we perceive as most important.One of the most heartbreaking things that I hear from parents - Speech Link
2: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) I visited Winchester Youth Counselling recently, where pupils can self-refer to talk through their issues - Speech Link
3: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) A lack of support for a child who has lost their parents at a young age could lead to significant harmful - Speech Link
4: Aphra Brandreth (Con - Chester South and Eddisbury) council, one of the local authorities in my constituency of Chester South and Eddisbury, has let down parents - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme: Capital Disregard - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Liam Conlon (Lab - Beckenham and Penge) From family tracing to support groups and counselling, to practical help with payment scheme applications - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) adopted, he never found his birth mother.I was very fortunate: although I was adopted in Birmingham, my parents - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) This amendment does not seek to prosecute parents. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) The law, as it stands, is extremely confusing and unhelpful to parents. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) As the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said, parents lose it. - Speech Link
4: Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard (UUP - Life peer) Maybe they refuse to take on counselling or refuse to go to school. - Speech Link