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Lords Chamber
Care Worker Visa Regime - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The Home Office worked with the Department of Health and Social Care to implement these measures. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) I am sure the Minister will agree that the already beleaguered and inadequate social care workforce needs - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) For example, 18 inspectors are supposed to deal with an agency sector covering 40,000 businesses. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Of course, care workers are not subject to the same salary cap as other workers, so applicants to the - Speech Link
5: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) The Government have failed to address the whole issue of social care. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) My Amendment 2 seeks clarification from the Government on their plans for workers currently employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) I recall having a useful discussion with the Environment Agency, English Nature and others about how - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Currently, oil and gas companies are not required to provide retraining or support for workers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We must enable energy provision to consumers while minimising cost, and we must support social and economic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None from the potentially significant resourcing implications and cost impacts of implementing such a cross-agency - Speech Link
2: None That Act allows workers to make a protected disclosure in certain circumstances. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It helps to ensure that children themselves remain visible in the multi-agency response to domestic abuse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) NHS numbers are the unique national patient identifier in the UK’s health and social care system, and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Rail Manufacturing - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) have been too slow to prevent potential job losses at the Derby train manufacturer.Similarly, I met workers - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) If the next generation of rail workers are to come through, we need the investment and the certainty - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) trained engineers on the production lines, with the vast majority of staff being employed part time or on agency - Speech Link
4: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) Laying off workers means a loss of skillsets that take years to replace. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) The first is the issue of social justice. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) Aside from the financial support that such work provides, it gives people a sense of agency within their - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) is a joined-up approach between health and social care so that social care stops being seen as the weak - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Scottish social security treats all claimants with dignity, fairness and respect. - Speech Link
5: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) As set out in our new deal for working people, our priority will be care workers receiving the pay, conditions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) methods for charging when it comes to handling plants being presented to the Animal and Plant Health Agency - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I have not picked up whether the National Crime Agency is able to pursue organised criminality in the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) It would be interesting to know more about how that is moving forward.On green social prescribing, the - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) They also add enormously to the nation’s mental health benefits and reduce social isolation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Parents and children, as well as the courts, need continuity in the allocation of social workers. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (XB - Life peer) It would enable social workers to work alongside a series of other professionals. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) There are too few people—too few social workers, foster carers, and adoptive parents. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Access to Redress Schemes - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) pleased to say that, following that, I have a meeting set up with the Secretary of State for Health and Social - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) Unite, the union that represents many FCA workers, talks about the “toxic” environment for staff representatives - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Does he agree that an independent agency is vital to stop the public trust eroding even further? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) think our current regulatory environment, courtesy of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - Speech Link
2: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) Retail workers already suffer unacceptable behaviour from customers on a daily basis, which will only - Speech Link
3: Sajid Javid (Con - Bromsgrove) Secondly, it is corrosive of personal liberty and agency. - Speech Link
4: Jake Berry (Con - Rossendale and Darwen) banned from smoking, while some 19-year-old voters will be able to smoke—the right ever to have the agency - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) At the moment, no single UK agency has an overarching view of the end-to-end experience of victims of - Speech Link
2: None a surreal process of inquests, court hearings and meetings with the police, barristers and support workers - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) It allows for a bit of operational discretion to cope with circumstances where the agency is, for whatever - Speech Link
4: None In relation to support workers, we have included a dedicated section on tailoring support to meet victims - Speech Link