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Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) First, from this April, the high-income child benefit charge threshold will be raised from £50,000 to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) banks, and the evidence of tired and hungry children in schools. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) That is the path we should be on, and I believe we should concentrate on it with much more vigour, whoever - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Instead of asking for fines, we should be taking shares. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) We welcome the OBR’s forecast for where we think inflation is going to be. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) We have the Scottish child payment, which has kept 100,000 kids out of poverty. - Speech Link
2: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) But if the Government are to do it, they should get on with it, mean it, and look as if it is going to - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) They will not be able to buy a classroom for their child, who is sitting in one with rotting concrete - Speech Link
4: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) If we are going to talk about comparisons, we should go back to 2010 and say that over these 14 years - Speech Link
5: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) No, sorry, the Conservatives will not be in Government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Member think his own Government are reducing child poverty as much as they could be? - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Scotland has chosen to say no to child poverty. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) -15 according to the End Child Poverty coalition. - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) The North East Child Poverty Commission’s February 2024 report highlighted that there has been no child - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) They should be under no illusion: that record is how the British people will judge today’s cuts, because - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) There is no reason why any child in Plymouth should be worth less than the national average, and we need - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) We have a very high rate of child poverty, with 47.5% of our children living in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) We think about those right now in Darfur and in Gaza, where there is no food, no medicine and no hope - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Educational Attainment of Boys - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) What will the impact be? It’s hardly going to be positive, is it? - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There is no better person than this Minister to be asked this question, or to encapsulate our thoughts - Speech Link
3: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) What should be done? What can be done? - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) We all know that there are shocking levels of child poverty in this country, leaving children too hungry - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) As I said earlier, Labour believes that education should be a priority, and should be at the centre of - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) can and should be done? - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) The Times says that all children should learn to cook properly and that those lessons should be inspected - Speech Link
3: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) That is the way we should all be addressing such an important issue. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Does the freezing last only until the year that we were told it would be or is it going to be rolled - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) , stagnation, NHS queues, food banks, inequalities and crumbling public infrastructure. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) At times of risk, people exercise a home bias; no one needs to be investing in sterling. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief in Nigeria - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) No group should be displaced or prevented from accessing aid, grants and advice for that reason. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I understand that he was given an option to leave the country, and his wife and child deserve to be able - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) or food to keep them from going hungry, there is a push towards alternative economic models, such as - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) This is a very important case, because blasphemy should not be an offence and it certainly should not - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Progress is needed on justice and accountability, and there should be no impunity for anyone. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Given your remarks, Mr Hosie, perhaps I should not give way again.I have no doubt that we will hear examples - Speech Link
2: Nicholas Brown (Ind - Newcastle upon Tyne East) be a better way of putting it—at the end of the debate. - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) The Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that Bolton is now in the top five for child poverty in the north-west - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Simply being unable to cope is no longer one of them. It should be, but it is not. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Child poverty rates in Scotland sit at 24%, which is still far too high, but they should be seen in the - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) what the level of support should be. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) We see pensioners going hungry and risking illness because they cannot afford to either eat or stay warm - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) The numbers accessing food banks are going up all the time. - Speech Link