To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) During 2023, the disability charity Scope received 7,422 referrals to its disability energy support service - Speech Link
2: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) have received up to £900 in further cost of living payments, with an extra £150 to those eligible for disability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Personal Independence Payments - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) know, these were introduced to help to meet the higher cost of daily living associated with long-term disability - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In the decade since PIP was introduced in 2013, the nature of health and disability has changed. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Baroness will know that some claimants will have considerable extra costs relating to their disability—quite - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) severe lifelong disabilities are not subjected to reassessment again and again, unless, of course, that disability - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Points of Order - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) a “sick note culture”, and implying that people who are economically inactive due to ill health or disability - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) For example, George Henderson, the carer of his adult son John, who has a learning disability, was overpaid - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) are questioning somebody who is caring for somebody else, and who also happens to be in receipt of disability - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) principle that the carer’s allowance can being awarded only once a decision has been made to trigger a disability - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Those with a disability or, indeed, a child might be in that situation.I note the Opposition’s commitment - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) tested and those that are not—child tax credit, the state pension, personal independence payments, the disability - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) amount of assets to claim benefits, whatever your situation, unless they are not means-tested or are disability - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) It has caused civil society organisations and disability and welfare charities to rise as one against - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Sickness and disability benefits engage disability, obviously; pensions engage age; benefits relating - Speech Link


Petitions
Pensioners’ Personal Tax Allowance - Fri 19 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None receiving pension credit, 8 million pensioner households and 6 million people across the UK on eligible disability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) mental health, with one aim of improving the therapeutic environment of mental health and learning disability - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) conditions suffered and complained about were caused by the vaccines, but have not caused sufficient disability—beyond - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Antimicrobial Resistance - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) difficult or indeed impossible to treat, therefore increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, disability - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Smoking remains the largest preventable cause of death, disability and ill health. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) The costs of sickness and disability benefits are due to rise on the Government’s watch, from £65 billion - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) It is a leading cause of preventable death and disability and is responsible for one in four cancer deaths - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) that taught me that smoking causes not just premature death, but substantial, debilitating, miserable disability - Speech Link
5: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) It causes stillbirths, it causes dementia, disability and early death. - Speech Link