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Lords Chamber
Gender Equality - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) high fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa—for example up to eight births per woman in Niger—lead to poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) efforts on the part of Afghans themselves, with support from external NGOs, to evade some of the most extreme - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) for falling through the cracks of a welfare system that is creaking under the strain of widespread poverty - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) fact that rough sleeping is a symptom of other failures, particularly Government failures on housing, poverty - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) In those extreme circumstances a lower-level power could be set but that is not what we have in the Bill - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) When 6 million people live in fuel poverty and when 4,700 people died last winter as a result of living - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) If we continue to let the climate crisis deteriorate, we condemn our constituents to a world where extreme - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) At a time when, as we have heard, 6 million families in the UK are living in fuel poverty this winter - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Refugee Integration - Thu 18 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) will spread rapidly, especially as all these countries are in chaos and many people in them live in poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) The department is prioritising older claims, children, those in support and those with extreme vulnerability.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Loan Charge - Thu 18 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) and my family…The mental stress on me and my family has been immense”.We know that because at the far extreme - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It has pushed people into debt, poverty and homelessness. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) He was a good man, who never underestimated or undervalued the extreme power of kindness.The Leader of - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) communities, and particularly on the old, the young, the sick, the disabled and those who already face extreme - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) We have the highest levels of fuel poverty and pay the highest bills, despite generating six times the - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We have lifted many people out of poverty, including 500,000 children. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Poverty: Greater Manchester - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) authority budgets, and what Labour would do in government to tackle this important problem.The UN lead on extreme - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) child and pensioner poverty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) poverty, tackle climate change and biodiversity loss”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) These two areas are crucial to poverty reduction and good development. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Given that the extreme effects of climate change are a fairly new challenge, is there not a case for - Speech Link
4: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) The share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell even more dramatically, from 47% in - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) We will go further and faster to mobilise more finance to help end extreme poverty and tackle the climate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
SEND Provision and Funding - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) a recent rise in the number of children who clearly have additional needs, with children exhibiting extreme - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) SEND are disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis and are more likely to be living in poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghanistan: UK Government Policy - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Indeed, 90% of Afghanistan’s population is living in extreme poverty, so it is absolutely essential that - Speech Link