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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) The recent summit claimed to be a conversation with civil society, but I have seen no evidence of this - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) The size of the Civil Service is shocking. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) There is a national problem in the recruitment and training of mechanical engineers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They focus on the critical areas that turn the productivity dial: recruitment, training, incentivisation - Speech Link
5: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) servants struggling to cope with this situation frankly do not have the capability or capacity for this - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) need, but a change of Government.As the Secretary of State sits in the Department being briefed by her civil - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) The Government are saying that public servants should be sacked for failing to provide minimum standards - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) servants in Whitehall.We should remember that the impartiality of our civil service is to be valued. - Speech Link
4: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) There are pockets of strike action in the civil service and elsewhere in the public sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) People rightly expect a lot of their public servants in our neck of the woods, so I mainly sit in the - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) how she is supposed to get any help when private practice is on the rise and NHS providers are facing recruitment - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) It could actually have had 1,000 more, and it is a regret that it fell short of its recruitment target - Speech Link
4: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) People would ask why we do not expect candour from all public servants anyway, backed up by legislation - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I am sure that there will be some who argue about libertarian principles and the infringement of civil - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) if the whole House joined me in wishing him a speedy recovery.Finally, I want to mention two public servants - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) I am pressing Matthew Scott for the recruitment and opening of that initiative to be accelerated. - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) this House going, all our constituency staff, everyone who works for Government Ministers and all the civil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) Lough Neagh is the biggest source of fresh water in perhaps the whole of the UK and Ireland.Civil servants—the - Speech Link
2: Viscount Brookeborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I am aware that the decision is statistical and due to a problem with recruitment—that may be so.I was - Speech Link
3: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) We agreed with the Government on allowing civil servants to take decisions on budgets, but how far can - Speech Link
4: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, pointed out, we have given powers to civil servants to take certain decisions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flying Schools - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) training courses.One potential protection that has been suggested, not least by the Minister and the Civil - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) After all, all pilots are trained initially by civil aviation, and it is civil aviation that they benefit - Speech Link
3: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) Various academic and industry studies undertaken on pilot recruitment have noted that of the thousands - Speech Link
4: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) In 2023—I am advised by civil servants that this is true—there were 11,675 applications for training - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) Like the Minister, I wish to pay tribute to his civil servants, who have worked very hard on this Bill - Speech Link
2: None we recommended when I was at the Foreign Office for many countries that had been through periods of civil - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) has to be said, as all the protections and powers that the courts have in the conduct of criminal, civil - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) a greater investment in the structures is required to ensure that there is proper retention, proper recruitment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Thu 20 Jul 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) Almost all authorities on the region believe that if that happens, we could easily see the renewal of civil - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) could not be used for the things that they would normally offset, such as teachers’ pay, police service recruitment - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) I am also told that civil servants were under an explicit instruction not to communicate any changes - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Command Paper Refresh - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None for military personnel to zig-zag between different roles, whether regular or reserve, or between the civil - Speech Link
2: None I thank my team, civil servants, special advisers and Members for their support and their challenge. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) We constantly look at recruitment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence Command Paper Refresh - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) I thank my team, civil servants, special advisers and Members for their support and their challenge. - Speech Link
2: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) The number of civil servants at DE&S went from 24,000 to 11,000, so we are cutting away the bureaucracy - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) Recruitment and retention issues have been flagged up; the Haythornthwaite review clearly highlighted - Speech Link
4: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) servants, military leaders and everyone else who will do just fine without me in this job. - Speech Link
5: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) I look at how senior civil servants can flex, do step-ups and step-downs, take breaks or sabbaticals, - Speech Link