Mentions:
1: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) Thirdly, it could be argued that we, and indeed the world, should have seen this coming; we had become - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) His comments about what we should do are incredibly wise, because there would be benefits. - Speech Link
4: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) Austerity and cuts, whether at home or abroad, should be rejected. - Speech Link
5: David Taylor (Lab - Hemel Hempstead) To be clear, BII does good things, but there is no need for additional capitalisation out of the 0.3% - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) child lacks food or warmth. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) It is a small step in the right direction, but what we need is a giant leap to end child poverty. - Speech Link
3: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) lifting people out of poverty so that we will no longer need food banks? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) It should be strategic, long term and locally led. - Speech Link
2: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) No mum should ever have to text their son that. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) , routinely in the top 10 for child poverty and food bank usage, and in the last year our Lord Mayor - Speech Link
4: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) neighbourhood should be left behind. - Speech Link
5: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) We must eradicate child poverty. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. - Speech Link
2: Jas Athwal (Lab - Ilford South) It should not have to be this way, and I am pleased to say that, in Ilford, it is not. - Speech Link
3: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) We should be investing to increase that percentage. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Trying to be proactive and solutions-focused, the group said that no two neighbouring libraries should - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) , would that not be a success in the end for them individually and for the economy? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) that it should never be countenanced to happen again. - Speech Link
2: Lord Craig of Radley (XB - Life peer) There was no food rationing. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) in which such sacrifices will no longer be necessary. - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) no leadership or understanding here of what was going on. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) I thought I was going to be sent to prison. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Maureen Burke (Lab - Glasgow North East) We can be the Parliament that ends the era of excuses, and we can be the country that declares poverty - Speech Link
2: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) clear: no single policy will solve poverty. - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) In November, as part of the child poverty taskforce, I was fortunate to meet child poverty charities, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) There should be, but there has been no consultation on this. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Lab - Life peer) is 18% of all households with a child or a parent who is going hungry. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The test should be whether the child is going to benefit from home schooling. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) This Government are absolutely clear that no child should be subjected to violence or abuse.We are pressing - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) More stories, many around the MRC, end in refusal to change terms—but that bar should not be there in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neuberger (XB - Life peer) The excitement and pride that we should have in our advances will be sorely lacking. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tarassenko (XB - Life peer) but at the same time we should not be afraid to close down unproductive lines of inquiry. - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) If there are no prosecutions, nobody will be found guilty. - Speech Link
5: Lord Vallance of Balham (Lab - Life peer) We have never been and will never be self-sufficient in this area—and nor should we be, because this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) We should involve the food and manufacturing industry, because, at the end of the day, it will still - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Let there be no misunderstanding: the food manufacturers are in it for profit, and ultra-processed food - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) There, food is something to be cherished. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The junk food giants should be regarded as a leech on our public finances; free riders that are not paying - Speech Link
5: Baroness Freeman of Steventon (XB - Life peer) Surely, then, the Government’s food strategy should be asking how we can efficiently produce and distribute - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We sit in some grandeur, and we are never hungry for food. - Speech Link
2: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab - Sheffield Central) For 2025, the World Food Programme predicts that 343 million people will be food insecure in the 74 countries - Speech Link
3: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) There may be no area of development linked as closely to nutrition as conflict. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Our contributions to the child nutrition fund were £15.74 million as of the end of 2024 through the child - Speech Link