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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Stunell (LD - Life peer) The idea that it is not appropriate, timely or sensible to tackle that seems strange in the extreme and - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The Government’s poverty of ambition has real implications for leaseholders being routinely gouged by - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) measured”.Given all that, surely discretion is the greater part of valour, and we must proceed with extreme - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) emergency programme to insulate all British homes by 2030, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None assess how long it would be before that cost could be recouped from future profits generated by the poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) We understand that, in extreme cases, sometimes the only way to continue operating is to consult with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) We know that extreme weather events both at home and abroad are likely to become more frequent. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Of those children in poverty, 38% are in households with low or very low food security. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) higher and further education, as well as culture—which aims to mitigate the impacts of growing up in poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) At the extreme, things are absolutely desperate. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Of course, this issue relates to many other policy areas that the Minister cannot deal with, such as poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) to the Minister’s reply on that, as well as to an explanation about how these cuts, which are more extreme - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Unemployment has halved, absolute poverty has gone down and there are 800 more people in jobs for every - Speech Link
2: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) contemplating our present discontents, people are inclined just to dismiss or forget as excuses the extreme - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the message I get from anti-poverty, children’s and women’s organisations in response to the - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) It noted that cuts have led to less focus on poverty reduction in trade programmes, and that programmes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) in 2010 the appalling maladministration of pension and tax credits that left many people trapped in poverty - Speech Link
2: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) proper wide-ranging Ofcom inquiry into whether Sir Paul Marshall, who has endorsed very right-wing and extreme - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) good news on wage growth as people progress through work, since 2010 unemployment has halved, absolute poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) aspects of housing need and his understanding that dealing with it was an integral part of tackling poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) housing will not bring housing costs down to an affordable level for millions of people trapped in poverty - Speech Link
3: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) acute housing shortages are a problem for London and the big cities, but they could hardly be more extreme - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) how skewed allocation policies have become, in terms of homelessness prevention, for all but the most extreme - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Ind - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The teacher also spoke about the difficulty of getting good educational outcomes amid poverty. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) It is caused by decades of Government failure to invest in social homes and to tackle poverty. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) End Child Poverty has estimated that more than 8,000 children are experiencing poverty in Lewisham East - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) those who are economically inactive, which includes a large percentage of disabled people, causing them extreme - Speech Link