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Lords Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
2nd reading - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) A further missed opportunity is the failure to support the self-employed with new and innovative ways - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) I include the Local Government Pension Scheme in that. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) In fairness, a government scheme, the Financial Assistance Scheme, was set up and helped to provide some - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Besides that, the income tax rate applied to dividend income has been increased by 2%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Workers on the national living wage are excluded entirely, and so are the 4.4 million self-employed people - Speech Link
2: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) more people into paying the higher rate of income tax, and created perverse incentives that make some - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Will we not end up with fewer people able to support themselves in old age and it will be back on the - Speech Link
4: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) This Bill is deeply flawed and the SNP will not support it today. - Speech Link
5: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) right that we make the scheme fairer for all.Let me continue to run through my numbers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) In 2029-30, three-quarters of the revenue from maintaining income tax and employee, self-employed and - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) fiscal drag into the higher rate of income tax. - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) The SNP will not support a Second Reading. - Speech Link
4: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) How could I not support that measure? - Speech Link
5: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) If we look at employment over time, we see that employment was growing every month until a certain thing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Oil Refining Sector - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) I am pleased that this debate has attracted considerable support, particularly from north of the border - Speech Link
2: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Do the Government support a deal that would retain the refinery complete? - Speech Link
3: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) It is incredible that we have lost our self-sufficiency.Why has this happened? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sally Jameson (LAB - Doncaster Central) What steps his Department is taking to support SMEs. - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) What steps his Department is taking to support SMEs. - Speech Link
3: Will Stone (Lab - Swindon North) What steps his Department is taking to support SMEs. - Speech Link
4: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) We have also introduced a £1.5 million hospitality support scheme to co-fund projects aligned with Department - Speech Link
5: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) They bring people together and support local jobs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Coalfield communities were not just clusters of employment; they were webs of support, with co-operative - Speech Link
2: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Only a few months ago, that scheme was to cost £25 million. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) We would scrap the SNP’s 21% tax band and cut income tax to 19% for all taxable income up to £43,000. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seasonal Work - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) The top 1% of income tax payers in this country pay 29% of all income tax. - Speech Link
2: Adnan Hussain (Ind - Blackburn) I support the Employment Rights Bill and I support the rights of employees, but I am beginning wonder - Speech Link
3: Antonia Bance (Lab - Tipton and Wednesbury) the way to solve the crisis in apprenticeships in hair and beauty, as well as the crisis of bogus self-employment - Speech Link
4: Anna Gelderd (Lab - South East Cornwall) There are more 18 to 24-year-olds in employment than there were a year ago, and the Employment Rights - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) That has a particular impact on those employed part-time, youth employment, and lower-wage employment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2nd readingLorsd Hansard - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Lab - Life peer) We must enable the exchange of good practice and support between regions. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I support the provisions on out-of-area services. - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) These are self-sustaining groups that are probably struggling to get by. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Imagine your own family losing a third of your income. - Speech Link
5: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) We have heard support across this House for genuine devolution. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) If you support work and oppose dependency, you should support the end of the two-child cap, not denigrate - Speech Link
2: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) In the Budget, £1.5 billion is made available for additional employment and skills support, including - Speech Link
3: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) support growth within our economy. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosenfield (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We need a plan to boost employment, support private sector output and grow confidence, and I fear that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
Report stage - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None the RMT only if its provider is also the scheme funder or scheme strategist of the RMT.” - Speech Link