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General Committees
Draft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) As I have said in answer to interventions, in the past we have used civil servants working elsewhere - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) training necessary to carry out critical border security functions.”Again, this becomes an issue of recruitment - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) It will impact on recruitment and the retention of existing staff, and on the overall service. - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) I do not think the regulations will impact on recruitment and retention. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) During the pandemic, I could only see the true professionalism of civil servants in a variety of Departments - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) All the contracts handed out during covid were signed off by extremely able and capable civil servants - Speech Link
3: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) knowledge and subject expertise among senior civil servants. - Speech Link
4: Scott Benton (Ind - Blackpool South) What steps are the Government taking to reduce the number of civil servants in order to achieve value - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Apprenticeship Levy - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Such recruitment fosters an environment of equal opportunity, which not only benefits individuals seeking - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) with a programme aimed at increasing the breath of potential candidates and driving efficiencies in recruitment - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Friend is absolutely right that recruitment to the armed forces is mixed—some of it is good, some of - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I want to make it absolutely clear that I think everyone working within the civil service as part of - Speech Link
4: Sarah Atherton (Con - Wrexham) We now understand that 60 female senior civil servants at the MOD have made allegations of sexual assault - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We are also aiming to expand the availability of mediation services in civil disputes, because it will - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) identified in prisons through our study of the prison workforce, where we have real difficulties in recruitment - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) Secondly, it would place a statutory duty of candour on public servants, not just the police, although - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) For that reason, a prerequisite of social solidarity is a civil order where law is enforced, justice - Speech Link
5: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) particular, the Government will bar prisoners convicted of the most serious crimes from marrying or entering civil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) In that time, the numbers teaching the subject have also halved; teacher recruitment for D&T met - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) AI is built, used and purveyed by business, government, civil society and even criminals. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) I would like to believe that it is inconceivable that Ministers and civil servants have not stressed - Speech Link
4: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) consider an IP regulator and the development of a speedier means of legal recourse than the current civil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) The recent summit claimed to be a conversation with civil society, but I have seen no evidence of this - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) The size of the Civil Service is shocking. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) There is a national problem in the recruitment and training of mechanical engineers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They focus on the critical areas that turn the productivity dial: recruitment, training, incentivisation - Speech Link
5: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) servants struggling to cope with this situation frankly do not have the capability or capacity for this - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) need, but a change of Government.As the Secretary of State sits in the Department being briefed by her civil - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) The Government are saying that public servants should be sacked for failing to provide minimum standards - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) servants in Whitehall.We should remember that the impartiality of our civil service is to be valued. - Speech Link
4: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) There are pockets of strike action in the civil service and elsewhere in the public sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) People rightly expect a lot of their public servants in our neck of the woods, so I mainly sit in the - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) how she is supposed to get any help when private practice is on the rise and NHS providers are facing recruitment - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) It could actually have had 1,000 more, and it is a regret that it fell short of its recruitment target - Speech Link
4: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) People would ask why we do not expect candour from all public servants anyway, backed up by legislation - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I am sure that there will be some who argue about libertarian principles and the infringement of civil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) if the whole House joined me in wishing him a speedy recovery.Finally, I want to mention two public servants - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) I am pressing Matthew Scott for the recruitment and opening of that initiative to be accelerated. - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) this House going, all our constituency staff, everyone who works for Government Ministers and all the civil - Speech Link