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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 14 Oct 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) Does the Secretary of State agree that the democratic world cannot afford to lose this war, and does - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) this Government, and the Royal United Services Institute has said that the winner in any prolonged war - Speech Link
3: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) I commend the new Veterans Minister for the contact he has already had with the chairman of the War Widows - Speech Link
4: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) Given the amount of his experience, I would love to sit down with him and the chair of the War Widows - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
War Widows: Ex Gratia Pension Payment - Tue 05 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In acknowledgement of this, the war widows recognition payment scheme was launched on 16 October 2023 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Crawley (Lab - Life peer) I am talking about war widows from the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I too declare an interest as a vice-president of the War Widows’ Association. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fookes (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as president of the War Widows’ Association. - Speech Link
5: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I have not actually received an invitation from the War Widows’ Association. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sudan - Fri 13 Sep 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Put quite simply, using starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Suttie (LD - Life peer) It is a war that, in many ways, has become a proxy war for current geopolitical tensions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) , but the war in Sudan is interested in you. - Speech Link
4: Lord Loomba (XB - Life peer) In 2015, the World Widows Report recorded more than 700,000 widows in Sudan. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It is not a forgotten war yet, but it is a wilfully ignored war now.Although the Ukraine conflict retains - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Terrorism: Glorification - Thu 30 Jan 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) She said that“the war came to Ireland”,which is republicans’ effort to rewrite historical reality and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I have sat in a room with the widows of police officers who were murdered. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Coalfield Communities - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) For too long, successive Governments have denied pension justice to retired miners and their widows. - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) economy every year through increased pension payments to the 3,755 MPS members—retired miners and widows—in - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) Tunnellers”, which tells the story of the heroic men of the tunnelling companies in the first world war - Speech Link
4: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) at the pit, alongside the women who worked in the canteen and in the office, and of course their widows - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 25 Jul 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LD - Life peer) I say unwinnable because it is now clear to any objective student of war that while the nature of war - Speech Link
2: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) During the Cold War, which was a war but was cold—we are now seeing a hot war in Ukraine—generally when - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) We will not be fighting this war; young people—our grandchildren—will be fighting this war, and they - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 Jan 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) Will the Prime Minister consider supporting the Ukrainian war effort by providing rapid diagnostic tests - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) mineworkers’ pension scheme investment reserve fund, benefiting nearly 4,000 former miners and miners’ widows - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Jammu and Kashmir: Human Rights - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) for sons who never return and wives live in perpetual uncertainty—so much so that the term “half-widows - Speech Link
2: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) greatest concern is the use of sexual violence and rape, which is so often used as an instrument of war - Speech Link


Grand Committee
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 06 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None absorbed a 22% reduction in core spending power from 2010, and that is before Labour pursued its reckless war - Speech Link
2: None Removing the 25% discount for widows has been mooted. - Speech Link
3: None are the Newborough farmlands, which were established for veterans coming back from the Second World War - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) the world, the anti-abortion laws in America, women being erased in Afghanistan, and the effects of war - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) As far back as World War I, the factory manufactured wireless technologies, and even in the 1930s there - Speech Link
3: Baroness Rafferty (Lab - Life peer) My mother trained as a nurse in the 1930s and during World War II in the Civil Nursing Reserve. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) Five years after the First World War, a group of courageous women in Wales embarked on a campaign for - Speech Link
5: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) Women are instrumental in helping communities recover and rebuild following the devastation of war. - Speech Link