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Commons Chamber
Substandard Housing - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) The housing association has been in special measures because of its extreme incompetence and social exclusion - Speech Link
2: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) national average is 7.8%; in Rochdale, it is 11.7%.We have 35.8% of our people officially living in fuel poverty - Speech Link
3: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) literally sometime soon in my constituency, and to see the way that thousands of people are living in poverty—fuel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) But 2 million pensioners are in poverty. - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) When will they take pensioner poverty seriously and fix this scandal? - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) with the Department for Communities, back home in the Northern Ireland Executive, in relation to the extreme - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) former chair of the committee on Covid and its long-term implications, that there seems to have been an extreme - Speech Link
2: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) year, the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox, eloquently spoke about the vital role of business in tackling poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) Yet, currently, these services, which the Digital Poverty Alliance describes as a “lifeline”, have no - Speech Link
2: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) If and when this goes ahead, those who rely on DTT and cannot for whatever reason—whether it is poverty - Speech Link
3: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Others had the extreme difficulty of getting programme ideas through the channel’s commissioning process.I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) about governance surrounding QE and QT, and there is a clear role for both, as temporary measures under extreme - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I would love to see more noble Lords who focus on poverty, workers’ rights, the environment and the place - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) question—along a spectrum, perhaps with the noble Lords, Lord Frost and Lord Blackwell, at the more extreme - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) His tireless campaigning against poverty, and for opportunity and education, changed the life of so many - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Many knew him for his relentless work combating poverty and its causes, but he had many other interests - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) This is a matter of extreme interest to the House, and it is part of Ministers’ legal responsibility - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) His was a life devoted to helping those in poverty, especially children. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) A significant number live on or near the poverty line and struggle to make ends meet. - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) conclude”.The Hyde Group, another major social housing provider, said that“the current level of delays is extreme - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) A staggering quarter of renting households are living in fuel poverty today, so urgent action is essential - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) clarify a number of things.It is true that there are some people who own lease- hold flats who are not poverty - Speech Link
2: None still, as a result of a freedom of information request, Dr John Kirkhope, who is a notary public and an extreme - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) 6 million households in the UK will be in fuel poverty. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is right to highlight fuel poverty. - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) , with 36% in fuel poverty according to the most recent data. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) He mentioned what it is like to live in fuel poverty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Mother Earth Day - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) We are progressing our White Paper commitments, helping to end extreme poverty and address climate change - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund aims to reduce poverty and protect and restore biodiversity in environmentally - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) UN 2021 report recognised that extractive industries have the potential to drive growth and reduce poverty - Speech Link