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Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
2nd reading - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) It is actually the view of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee. - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) In all that time a 98% failure rate in a public sector initiative amounts to the most catastrophic fiasco - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The first is that the duty should apply to all relevant public bodies. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Does she therefore agree that we must ensure that when it is extended to every public sector organisation - Speech Link
5: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Recruitment and retention reforms are already working: recruitment is up, outflows are down, and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 23 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berger (Lab - Life peer) sector or charitable organisations and, if it was the private sector, whether it would be allowed to - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) That 70% of the public support it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) But in a wide range of other public administration or public policy decisions, there is at least the - Speech Link
4: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) That is what the public would expect of us. - Speech Link
5: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It is to do with public reaction. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fishing Industry - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Melanie Onn (Lab - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes) How can we bring this into the UK economy through our public institutions? - Speech Link
2: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Member for Dumfries and Galloway (John Cooper) hinted at the problems of recruitment to the sector; in - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The fishing sector wants to work with the Government. - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) , allocating funds for science, research, infrastructure, skills and training across the sector. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None serious offence is the idea that they and their family might continue to enjoy the public sector pension - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The ATRS is the Government’s own standard for algorithmic transparency, developed to ensure public sector - Speech Link
3: None This is a modest but essential first step towards the kind of clear statutory framework for public sector - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) sector bodies use algorithmic tools in decision-making that impacts the public. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) the Hillsborough law, and clearly the duty of candour should be extended to all public servants. - Speech Link
2: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) We have consulted on a public interest test. - Speech Link
3: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) The Government will be taking a “digital first” approach to modernising public services. - Speech Link
4: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) This week, I gave a speech recognising the public’s frustration with our public services. - Speech Link
5: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) are used to using in the private sector, but that are not used for public services because of 14 years - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Government need to clarify paid and voluntary sector rules—for example, how often should screening - Speech Link
2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Additionally, there does not seem to be a route for the public to report concerns. - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) That would ensure that the public could not have free and easy access to information that could be risky - Speech Link
4: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) not keep pace with modern care and employment.The Disclosure and Barring Service exists to make recruitment - Speech Link
5: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) adults through the disclosure of relevant criminal records, helping employers to make informed recruitment - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) They are substantial and require careful engagement with the sector. - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) down to the Terrace this evening, they will meet people who are very active and hardworking in that sector - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) Through the fostering recruitment and retention programme, we have been supporting over 60% of local - Speech Link
4: None meaning of section 463 of the Education Act 1996);(e) an institution within the further education sector - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Labour is boosting teacher recruitment and retention in order to put 6,500 new expert teachers in front - Speech Link
2: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) related intervention powers for the Secretary of State, which will support strong governance across the sector - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) specialist provision in mainstream schools, but I also recognise the critical role that the specialist sector - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Last Friday, the Public Accounts Committee, of which I am a member, published its report into the financial - Speech Link
5: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) Member’s interest in this issue, and the reports from the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rare Cancers Bill
2nd reading - Fri 16 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Shaughnessy (Con - Life peer) That is where the public is, and the law needs to catch up.I end by again thanking the noble Baroness - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) simple—a cancer that they want to combat and defeat.One such sufferer, whom I know and who is in the Public - Speech Link
3: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) By definition, rare cancers have smaller patient cohorts, meaning limited recruitment opportunities. - Speech Link
4: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) In the forthcoming cancer plan I believe there should be a commitment to improving public and patient - Speech Link
5: Lord Mendelsohn (Lab - Life peer) We apply much more money in other places, including countries that have public policy supporting this - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) In Committee, reference was made to the public concerns of Professor Eileen Munro, who is possibly the - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Neill of Bexley (Con - Life peer) It would be helpful if the DfE published workforce metrics and proposed solutions to recruitment and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) and qualifications, including police representatives.The College of Policing’s professionalising public - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) in multi-agency child protection teams will need, and that these regulations will be subject to public - Speech Link
5: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) More than 300 public figures also supported a change in the law. - Speech Link