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Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) Conservatives had stripped away funding from struggling towns so that they could play politics with public - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Buy one, get one free campaigns intended to reduce obesity in the public health environment have a 50% - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) One of the consequences of that level of austerity was vastly weakened public services. - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading Central) In my area, Reading borough council recently opened 46 new council houses, built on its own land, as - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Lambeth council has been very public about that, and has reported net zero new social homes. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None support new market entrants.(3) The Secretary of State must lay a copy of the report before both Houses - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The big difference between the PPF and the FAS is that the FAS is funded out of general taxation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) What happens if the rules of the receiving public sector scheme change in future? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) In this case, there is no impact on the general public, only on AWE members. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None a new decision and are placing copies of the Government’s full response in the Libraries of both Houses - Speech Link
2: None 1950s-born women already knew that the state pension age was increasing thanks to a wide range of public - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) 1950s-born women already knew that the state pension age was increasing thanks to a wide range of public - Speech Link
4: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) I am thinking about IHT on private businesses, the taxation of private pensions upon death and the introduction - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 29 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) It will be a vital contribution to the public finances. - Speech Link
2: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Member knows, there are always trade-offs to be considered in taxation policy design. - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The Public Accounts Committee, on which my hon. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) The public know a lemon when they see one. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Changes to local taxation will inevitably affect residents, businesses and the funding of public services - Speech Link
3: None This is a time for public sector agencies and all of us who have worked in the public sector to be reminded - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) It is all part of why public trust in our Government has weakened. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Youth Unemployment - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) Friend agree with me that poor rural public transport is trapping young people in my area in unemployment - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) As the Government look to promote public sector efficiency through using AI, many young people are worried - Speech Link
3: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) depending on from which party a Member hails.We have rising youth unemployment, and the issue is taxation - Speech Link
4: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) House building is grinding to a halt, houses are not selling and the market is flat. - Speech Link
5: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) private sector prosperity that will create the tax revenues that we can use to pay for excellent public - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) As a member of the public, I want to be sure that those public sector staff are not receiving undue recompense - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) Would that advice be public? - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) well be what it considers to be in its own interest, because it is a public body? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Joshua Reynolds (LD - Maidenhead) We would all like to how the public will be made aware of this. - Speech Link
2: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) Secondly, they are vulnerable to retrospective taxation. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) Member for North West Norfolk, referred to the Chartered Institute of Taxation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business Rates - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Instead, this Labour Government will get on with the work of ensuring that we can get our public finances - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) all for the other hospitality firms in our constituencies—the cafés, restaurants, clubs and guest houses - Speech Link
3: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Members profess to be paragons of fiscal virtue, yet stand up in this place and say they want to cut taxation - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None Of course, as time goes on, they will increase in numbers because the Government changed the taxation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) It was an unusually high-level and accelerated process, driven in part by the then Chancellor’s public - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) I declare an interest; I have been a director of New Anglia Capital Ltd, which was public sector, 100% - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) I still do not see how, when you have the public policy laid out by the high-level working group set - Speech Link