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

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) It is important that families understand exactly what is happening. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) As we all know, relationships and families are complex, and we need to do everything that we can. - Speech Link
3: None by families, the results are not just better plans but stronger, more resilient families. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) We very much support having a single unique identifier. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) While the majority of births go well, I know from the courage of families who have spoken up and the - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) It is completely unacceptable that on top of the other challenges that staff and families face at such - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) We have had to do all that—not wasting a single day in 18 months. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) That is a huge burden on those young people and their families. - Speech Link
5: Matt Bishop (Lab - Forest of Dean) Will the Secretary of State commit to exploring a dedicated national support pathway for parent carers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universities: Statutory Duty of Care - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) campaigners such as ForThe100, who live with the scars from a system that failed them and their families - Speech Link
2: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) It is not for grieving families to seek litigation after harm has already occurred, but that is what - Speech Link
3: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) I therefore want serious consideration to be given to the concerns of students and their families. - Speech Link
4: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) That person might be a parent, but does not have to be. - Speech Link
5: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) Students and their families deserve better, universities need certainty and the courts need clarity. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Airport Drop-off Charges - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) A parent unloading luggage at 5 am or a carer helping an elderly relative to the terminal door is not - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) to Manchester airport; a typical journey time is about 36 to 45 minutes and, at off-peak times, a single - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) That hits everyone: the parent, the friend taking someone to an early flight and taxi drivers trying - Speech Link
4: Steve Yemm (Lab - Mansfield) Working people feel it the most, including parents dropping off their children and families trying to - Speech Link
5: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) She spoke powerfully about the impact on people with disabilities, young families and those who need - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
New Medium Helicopter Contract - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) He left forces families in terrible housing and our warfighters with broken kit. - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) is one reason that we have continued dialogue with Leonardo, not just in the UK but also with its parent - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Given that every single defence manufacturer, SME and even the military personnel I meet say that we - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) We have an increasing defence budget for every single year of the decade ahead. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Higher Education: Government Support - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: David Burton-Sampson (Lab - Southend West and Leigh) I look around me now; when I started out as a child of a working-class single-parent family—the first - Speech Link
2: David Burton-Sampson (Lab - Southend West and Leigh) expense of commuting to the campus in Colchester, to being forced to abandon caring duties for their families - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Clause 1 - Mon 12 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) We also needed to get borrowing down, and borrowing is falling in every single year of this forecast - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is coming from lower and middle-income families, which means that some 4.8 million more individuals - Speech Link
3: None I am the parent of two recent graduates and an undergraduate, so I see those daily struggles. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Bourne) In practice, it is unlikely that many families will be able to pay the tax without selling up. - Speech Link
5: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) It is double taxation in all but name, and it penalises families at the very moment of loss. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 09 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) pressing this and previous Governments to cite early legal advice and support in family hubs when families - Speech Link
2: None But, of course, that overlooks the human cost in terms of the impact on families. What about them? - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) We do not want families to discover after the event that their child, whom they are trying to support - Speech Link
4: None I have taken my 10 minutes and I have not been able to address every single bit of my amendments. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Less Survivable Cancers - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) One statistic I repeat time and again is that not a single NHS trust has met the 62-day target since - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Behind every statistic is a person—a parent, partner, sibling or friend—whose life was cut short, not - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) These families are keen for urgent trials to be undertaken to allow the treatment to be used, given the - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) They were friends of mine, and I know their losses will be felt by not only their families and friends - Speech Link
5: Rachel Taylor (Lab - North Warwickshire and Bedworth) It is unacceptable that patients and their families must tackle medicine shortages on top of battling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty and Welfare Policies - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) For a single person, it is £120, which is £28 more than they are receiving; for a couple, it is £205, - Speech Link
2: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) 18 months.However, the weight of the cost of living crisis will not be lifted by boxing clever on single - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) What concerns me greatly is families sitting around a table on a cold night—as cold as it is today—and - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) We know that employment plays a vital role in lifting families out of poverty and in securing better - Speech Link