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Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We do not want recruitment to be handicapped. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) I speak with my experience of the public sector and what happens if there are no requirements. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I am keen that we also trust the public. - Speech Link
4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) Public hearings were introduced in 2022, allowing any hearing to be held in public where the chair considers - Speech Link
5: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and the behaviour of the public generally. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Judicial Appointments Commission (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) from the judiciary, the legal professions, non-legally qualified judicial office holders and the public - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We can see where that would lead.It is ironic, perhaps, to talk about how we restore public trust in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) They must think that the public are stupid. - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) The public have seen what a Labour Government have done. - Speech Link
3: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) Why are we doing that to our oil and gas sector? - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford) held our country back and destroyed our public sector, but restoring the public finances is the first - Speech Link
5: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) Does it strengthen our public services? - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Judicial Appointments Commission (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) from the judiciary, the legal professions, non-legally qualified judicial office holders and the public - Speech Link
2: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) We can see where that would lead.It is ironic, perhaps, to talk about how we restore public trust in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con - Life peer) goes to show what can happen.Orphanage trafficking is a form of child trafficking defined as“the recruitment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Australia’s experience demonstrates that legislative recognition creates public awareness and shifts - Speech Link
3: None Yet the bad practice creates a stigma against the whole sector. - Speech Link
4: None They would restore public confidence in the police and in those who manage these situations—and in the - Speech Link
5: None I will bring a public health dimension to this debate since these amendments are consistent with a public - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting) - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) It is clear that victims, members of the public, have been badly let down by public authorities over - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) inquiries, and to change the culture of public authorities and the public officers within those authorities - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) I think there would be some opportunity and benefit for other members of the public sector, yes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) We have always been clear that we wanted to take action on the basis of sound public finances. - Speech Link
2: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) There has been no public outcry and they have been welcomed. - Speech Link
3: Susan Murray (LD - Mid Dunbartonshire) Meanwhile, the private sector in the west of Scotland, such as at the energy technical academy in my - Speech Link
4: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support skills and training in the defence sector - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) The pandemic still weighs heavily on our public finances and our NHS. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - Godalming and Ash) We know, for example, that raising public sector productivity to private sector levels would add 0.4% - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) Businesses, workers, bill payers, farmers, hospices, industry and the public sector cannot endure another - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) sector for Sizewell C. - Speech Link
4: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Member accept that some of the blossoming of the public sector in this country is as a result of Brexit - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Parkinson’s Disease - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Paul Davies (Lab - Colne Valley) Mardell, the former BBC political journalist and the lead petitioner—he is sitting at the back of the Public - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Some of them are in the Public Gallery today. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) I am sure the Minister has seen how many MPs are in the Chamber and how many people are in the Public - Speech Link
4: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) We also have a packed Public Gallery, which goes to show just how important this issue is. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) growth in GDP, per capita productivity fell in the last quarter and unemployment rose to 5% as recruitment - Speech Link
2: None He manufactures washroom systems for schools, public buildings and commercial clients across the UK and - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Everyone who knows anything at all about wealth creation, about private sector hiring and about employment - Speech Link
4: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) For me, the law is a public statement of policy; it is not just a manifesto commitment. - Speech Link