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Lords Chamber
LGBT Veterans: Financial Redress - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) When His Majesty’s Government pledged to make recompense to the war widows, there was an assumption that - Speech Link
2: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I am fully aware of the war widows issue and we are addressing that at the same time. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) there would be regulations to establish compensation for eligible persons affected—the families, widows - Speech Link
2: Emma Foody (LAB - Cramlington and Killingworth) teacher and also one of just five living veterans who fought at the battle of Monte Cassino in world war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) were men such as Bill McNally, a Murton miner who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in world war - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) part, by addressing past injustices and ensuring retirement security for mine- workers and their widows - Speech Link
3: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) The average miner has a pension of just £84 per week, and widows are on a lot less. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming and Inheritance Tax - Wed 04 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) There are jeers from Government Members, but that amount is not available to widows, it is not available - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) at 65 like many of us, but has kept working the long, hard days, as he did during the second world war - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) innovations are being driven by a new generation of young UK farmers, who are different from the post-war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Technology in Public Services - Mon 02 Sep 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) Now, we must do so with the worst set of economic circumstances since the second world war. - Speech Link
2: Natasha Irons (Lab - Croydon East) Lyons, a veteran who has campaigned to ensure that the memory of servicepeople from the first world war - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) Hanging out with a bunch of widows may not sound like much fun, but being with people who understand - Speech Link
4: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) British strategy in Afghanistan, and I can tell you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that when you are fighting a war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Wed 17 Jul 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Today, my constituency comprises a number of close-knit communities that until after the war were on - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) It also commits us to support Ukraine in what is not just their war but our war—a war to defend democracy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Care Strategy - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) down dementia.I am reminded of a project I saw in Japan 20 years ago, where a group of 80 year-old war - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inheritance Tax Relief: Farms - Mon 10 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (Con - Torridge and Tavistock) thousands of people relied: the elderly widower whose deceased spouse cannot transfer her allowance, the widows - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) suffered from an almost never-ending list of difficulties over recent years: Brexit, energy prices, the war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Infected Blood Inquiry - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) This report is likely to show how, since the war, people have not paid enough attention to the warnings - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) They included brothers Michael and Bill Payne, and I met their widows Cath and Margaret over the Easter - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 14 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Much of it was drafted in the formative years after the Second World War by British lawyers—Conservative - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Many of them were widows, leaving children to cope on their own.It is important that we bring this debate - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) the European Convention; we go back to the Atlantic charter, the fundamental basis on which the post-war - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) We have to recognise the impact of the ongoing war, and in particular the response of our younger generation—white - Speech Link