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Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Women’s rights are most under threat when they live in a country at war. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The PM standing and declaring war on protestors may provide temporary cover over his conscience. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) They are taking notes and going to war-torn areas so that people can be prosecuted. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Two or three noble Lords spoke about women in war. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) will rise by 8.5%, as will the standard minimum guarantee in pension credit and the higher rate of widows - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Government have not been alone in the experiences of the pandemic and coming out of it, as well as of the war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Evans (LAB - Caerphilly) kindness through best-in-class support, including care home costs and financial assistance for their widows - Speech Link
2: David Burton-Sampson (Lab - Southend West and Leigh) started its life on the current Roots Hall site before moving to the Kursaal during the first world war - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Military Action in Iraq: Declassified Documents - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Yesterday, I joined the War Widows Association for its Christmas gathering; I pay tribute to its secretary - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) This dealt partly with jus in bello—just war theory as it applies to the conduct of war, which we have - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) The world is a far less safe place from that war. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) We have seen the Iraq war, the financial crash, Brexit, covid and the transition of monarchs.Madam Deputy - Speech Link
2: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) Britain’s first capital city under the Romans is a city once more.Nationally, our work includes all war - Speech Link
3: None security personnel on the Mull of Kintyre, (6) the existence of illnesses collectively known as Gulf War - Speech Link
4: Marcus Jones (Con - Nuneaton) He rightly mentioned the Iraq war, the financial crisis, Brexit and covid. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) They—and sometimes their wives, widows and descendants—have reported making repeated requests to gain - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) has suffered and who has been trying to locate the relevant information so that he can apply for a war - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) That data is vital for their war pension applications and for an understanding of the conditions that - Speech Link
4: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) , preventing a third, potentially devasting, conventional war. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Veterans Welfare Services - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) A lot of good work has been done by the Ministry of Defence and the UK Government on the war widow’s - Speech Link
2: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) I started working in 2017 and 2018, and then in 2019 as a Minister, on some sort of recognition of war - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton South) Those most affected were often those already vulnerable: widows and those living alone; those with health - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) all these changes—including those changes expedited in 2011—who were born just after the second world war - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
War Widows’ and Widowers’ Pensions - Thu 18 May 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I am pleased to confirm that the war widows’ ex gratia payments scheme was announced yesterday for this - Speech Link
2: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) He will know that the War Widows’ Association, senior members of which are below the Bar today, have - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, I too declare an interest as a vice-president of the War Widows’ Association. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Kinnoull (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, these Benches also have a very long association with the War Widows’ Association. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None This was some 50 years ago, yet we are still talking about compensation for the widows and children of - Speech Link
2: None actioned in 2017 and started in 2018, so it has been going for over six years—we won the Second World War - Speech Link