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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) Lady for her question, and I want to be clear that any use of strip search should be carried out in accordance - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) Friend, and I agree with him that there should be a clear pathway. - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) Do Ministers not agree that they should be? - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) Should not Ofsted and the Department be taking an interest in this matter, in the context of child protection - Speech Link
5: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) experiencing food poverty. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Women in Poverty - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Poverty and food insecurity are not just about going hungry; as the hon. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Particularly shameful is in-work poverty, when people are going out to work day in, day out and still - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) risk of having to go to a food bank. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) A recent roundtable at No. 10 very much focused on that issue.At the end of 2022, there were more than - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Mar 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) Let me be clear: that is and was unacceptable and should never have happened. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) The Government should be ashamed of that record. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) But we are also delivering on the people’s No. 1 priority, which is to stop the boats and end illegal - Speech Link
4: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) In our land of energy plenty, why should our people be cold and hungry and businesses failing as a result - Speech Link
5: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) Millions are living in food and fuel poverty because of this Government’s failures and political decisions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) If there are people who think that there should be no further exploration or drilling of our own domestic - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) The number of children in food poverty in this country has doubled in the past year to 4 million; the - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) As Gordon Brown once said:“Child poverty is the scar that demeans Britain. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Mon 20 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) The Government should be neutral about the fact that, often, it is in the interests of the child and - Speech Link
2: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) money, it should not be a surprise if, at the end of that, inflation is high and living standards are - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) my community, but food banks should not exist. - Speech Link
4: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) Our mission in this place should be to ensure that we do not see food banks and that people, particularly - Speech Link
5: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) We are going to see life expectancy falling, poverty growing, child hunger rising and an increase in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) Perhaps we should now also be told how many pensioners will be pushed into poverty by the decision to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Millions more people are in poverty. Children and parents are going hungry. - Speech Link
3: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) But we have now been steadied, and for that we should be pleased.As to whether or not we are going to - Speech Link
4: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) I should appreciate it if the Minister could give some assurance that there will be no dilution of employment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) How we stop families going hungry or relying on food packages is a vital conversation, and one that needs - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) No one is going to argue that they should not receive a payment, because their annual income is exactly - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) For instance, the Scottish child payment of £25 was a bold step towards tackling child poverty. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) That is why, today, child poverty is up, pensioner poverty is up and in-work poverty is up. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty: Food Costs - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) use.No one should go hungry in the UK—we know that. - Speech Link
2: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) If you are really struggling for money and are going to a food bank two or three times a week, you should - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) hungry, families relying on food banks and no end to this pain in sight, because the soaring food inflation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) We are going to have the urgent question on food security a bit later, so I will not labour that at this - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Food inflation is not going to fall for the foreseeable future, so what plans will the Minister put in - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Where significant development of agricultural land is shown to be necessary, they should seek to use - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) , the Government have built their food poverty infrastructure on dependency on voluntary donations and - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) child needs to go hungry. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Overseas Aid: Child Health and Education - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) sufficiently to save her fourth child from getting HIV in the first place—she had no idea. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Instead, the ODA budget should be ringfenced for spending abroad, and the Home Office should be given - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) African countries experience climate disaster, poverty, child malnutrition and conflict, but they were - Speech Link