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Westminster Hall
Religious Crematoriums - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Susan Murray (LD - Mid Dunbartonshire) and human rights that underpin our system. - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) compassionate process for the deceased and their grieving family and friends.Cremation has become the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Victims of Terrorism: State Support - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Andy MacNae (Lab - Rossendale and Darwen) and dismissing the pleas and plights of victims. - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) ; it has been from the heart and from experience, and it has brought real compassion and humanity to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Coroner Services: West Midlands - Thu 15 May 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) They call their councillors and their MPs, and they are right to do so. - Speech Link
2: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) and sensitivity within coroner services, registrars and local councils. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) and registration system. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) , and Coventry, complete inquests in an average time of 17 and 18 weeks respectively. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Funerals: Death Certificate Delays - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) We are also working with faith groups and the funeral sector to identify and reduce any obstacles, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) It is not the case that delays to funerals can be identified and formally linked with the changes in - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) there is a direct link between the extra time to deal with funerals and the reforms. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) As I said, it is so important to be timely and sensitive at a time of bereavement. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) speed and, as I said, to keep distress and delay at a minimum. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Day of Reflection - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of London (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, I declare my interest as the former chair of the UK Commission on Bereavement and other interests - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 28 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lewis Atkinson (Lab - Sunderland Central) around skills, and the assessment of capacity and coercion? - Speech Link
2: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Spen Valley) First, that Act is used up and down the country by doctors and nurses every day; they know it and they - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) things are playing in—and the more difficult it is for the patient, their family and the medical and - Speech Link
4: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) We also provide pre-bereavement support for both the patient and the family, and post-bereavement support - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Employment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: Ninth Sitting - Tue 10 Dec 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) The approach to regulations mirrors that taken when establishing parental bereavement leave and allows - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) It is quite clear on a purely human level that bereavement can strike any family and any individual, - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Parents who suffer a stillbirth may be entitled to parental bereavement leave and pay. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) It is important to consider that, and to look at what is done well and not so well. - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) This is a big day.As chair of the APPG on bereavement support, I very much welcome this debate and I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) This text, which is popular at weddings and funerals, frames love not as an unattainable ideal, but something - Speech Link
2: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Family units and households can always be dysfunctional, and have been, and will be. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) , and front and centre is the importance of stable and affirming relationships. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) It is in houses and flats that families and households of different shapes and sizes are built, and housing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) and embolden them to assert and enforce their rights more vigorously. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Member for Greenwich and Woolwich and other hon. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) funerals and memorials for loved ones, and so on.In those uniquely distressing circumstances, the threat - Speech Link
4: Karen Buck (Lab - Westminster North) There is the small shopkeeper and private tenant who was burgled; he lost his stock and his income, and - Speech Link
5: Karen Buck (Lab - Westminster North) Many young people and vulnerable people—for instance, after a relationship breakdown or a bereavement—do - Speech Link