Mentions:
1: Lord Parekh (LAB - Life peer) We have been talking about widows for a long time in this House. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) I will focus my contribution on African widows. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) of migrants and widows who themselves become refugees or migrants. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) in a difficult period.On growth, in 2010 we were facing the worst recession since the second world war - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) They are focused on their climate change culture war, costing Scotland millions, if not billions, in - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) The problem first affected a group of women—widows over 80 and others—who did not get their full state - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) tax changes“reduce the tax burden by 0.7 per cent of GDP but it still rises in every year to a post-war - Speech Link
5: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) Despite their claim to be reducing taxes, the tax burden will be the highest since the war. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) I was delighted to announce the war widows ex gratia payment scheme last month. - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) As war widows’ pensions are a recognition of sacrifice and not a benefit, they are not taxed. - Speech Link
3: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) The war in Ukraine will have given us some insight into Russia’s war tactics. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) in the forces should be considered by Veterans UK medical assessors when a claim is made under the war - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) The other services are the war pension and armed forces compensation schemes, and the delivery of the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) could not have conducted affairs in that atmosphere of violence and killing—indeed, the IRA called it a war - Speech Link
2: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) Of course, Sinn Féin said that he was therefore a legitimate target; he was a part of the British war - Speech Link
3: None When I meet, as I still do, widows or children then, who are now adults, who will never see their father - Speech Link
4: Lord Patten of Barnes (CON - Life peer) Portadown we then went to a meeting in Craigavon and the first three questions I had were from the widows - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Meyer (CON - Life peer) We should not wage a war between the sexes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) Thus, many of these women (half-widows) and their children get into a survival crisis with no source - Speech Link
3: Lord Loomba (CB - Life peer) Betty attended all our events in London and, in 2004, came to India to meet destitute widows and see - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) That would liberate some bigger houses that widows and widowers may be living in that are not perfect - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) Conservative, I support a property-owning democracy, and despite the economic challenges of the pandemic, the war - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) In 1703, the Amicable Society, chartered by Queen Anne, was set up to provide support to widows and children - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) nation, communities and people face different challenges, having come through a global pandemic while a war - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) inspired by the strength and resilience of the woman and children so sadly displaced by this atrocious war - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) I had the privilege of working with the late Lady Boothroyd on the memorial to the women of World War - Speech Link
3: Baroness Seccombe (CON - Life peer) I lost my father when I was 11 years old, during the winter of 1942, a difficult time in the war. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fall (CON - Life peer) war characterised by its brutality and cruelty. - Speech Link