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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) That is why last year the Government published their response to the independent review of children’s social - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) The Legal Aid Agency monitors the provision of immigration legal aid and takes whatever actions are operationally - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) The Legal Aid Agency keeps the location of providers under constant review. - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Why is there such a gap between the cheapest crematorium in the country, which charges £408, and the - Speech Link
5: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) The fees for civil legal aid are half what they were in 1996 and the number of providers has fallen by - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gale (Lab - Life peer) bodies; and increased voice, agency, and meaningful participation in economic decision-making at all - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) The collect and pay system, which is often the safest option for survivors, demands financial charges - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) to social, economic, biological and cultural factors. - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) That goes for employment tribunal fees too. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) We will ensure that outsourced workers are included in the gender pay gap and pay ratio reporting. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) They are supported with free prescriptions, do not have to pay tuition fees and get the game-changing - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) unequal energy bill standing charges and using a £12 billion wealth tax to fund a £400 annual energy - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) In Suffolk Coastal we have a lot of seasonal workers. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Key workers are being priced out of the area and home ownership is but a distant dream. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) anti-social behaviour—see the brilliant work of Professor Sir Michael Marmot and that of Professors - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) out how to bring under control social security payments. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Unlike other European countries, England charges university fees, which is now deterring people. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) It is people in the middle income bands who have some agency here and who actually take retirement. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) hospitality workers, and giving all employees easier access to flexible working and giving all workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Loan Charge - Thu 18 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) notes that section 44 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 deems agency workers to be - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) notes that section 44 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 deems agency workers to be - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) It is a devastating narrative that encompasses contractors, freelancers and agency workers from all walks - Speech Link
4: John McNally (SNP - Falkirk) Most importantly, they were workers, and as workers they were entitled to protection under the agency - Speech Link
5: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) jobs, from NHS workers to social workers, are being pursued by HMRC, and some taxpayers are being told - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) which proposed statutory regulation of managing agents in this sector and within the estate agency world - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) that abolishing ground rent will destabilise the pensions industry and mean that nurses and care workers - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) the freeholder’s fees. - Speech Link
4: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) People have been ripped off for so many years and paid unnecessary fees, and lots of leaseholders are - Speech Link
5: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) , save for the limitation of administration charges and the obligation to publish a schedule of fees - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None So we set up a website, social media and so on, and we are 11,000. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) There are two different tiers—fixed rent charges and variable rent charges—that are being allowed to - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) About 50% of the estate charges are just administrative fees. Councils could do it much cheaper. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) care workers and policemen in the country? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) administration fees, to benefit leaseholders who have exercised their right to buy within the social - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) One of the charges was £30,000 for legal and professional fees, requested without explanation or detail - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) They were built from the 1930s to house the workers for our local industrial estates in the Lea valley - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Health Service: 75th Anniversary - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) any restructuring, crony contracts, wasted payments on management consultants, rip-off outsourcing or agency - Speech Link
2: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) dubious fees, facing demands to repay thousands of pounds when they try to move jobs and being forced - Speech Link
3: Lord Drayson (Lab - Life peer) on external management consultants charging huge fees. - Speech Link
4: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) was all free, because there have always been charges for some elements of it. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) health visitors, harnessing technology and AI, giving NHS and care workers fair pay and fair terms and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) we are working with the Environment Agency to resolve that. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency services are due to cease being available at post offices from the - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) His policy is that companies can pay workers from abroad 20% less than British workers and that has contributed - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It is why immigration fees are going up by up to 35%. - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will have more to say at tonight’s event about - Speech Link