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Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) The Bill provides a “support first” approach for families to help to ensure that children attend school - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) She highlighted how good attendance requires a holistic approach, involving schools, families, local - Speech Link
3: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) Of course, we absolutely sympathise with families who want to avoid more expensive periods, but we are - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inequalities in Dementia Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) economy more than £40 billion each year, and more than 60% of that cost is borne by individuals and families - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) We know that those from poorer and disadvantaged backgrounds are more susceptible to key dementia risk - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) There is a brighter future for those living with dementia and their families and carers. - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) It is not just about supporting people with dementia and their families. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) They bring families and local people together to ensure that they have the best possible life with the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Poverty rates are higher, at 27% compared to 19%.There are also disparities in housing, with families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) The scheme was originally proposed in the Children and Families Act 2014, but, despite review, it is - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The proportion of people in families where someone is disabled and in absolute poverty after housing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) the campaign; secondly, to develop and promote policy solutions to support 1950s-born women and their families - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton South) That had a huge impact on those affected and their families. - Speech Link
3: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) , misery and injustice not only for the women affected, but endured by their immediate and extended families - Speech Link
4: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) subject has been debated in Parliament for nine years, and for over nine years these women and their families - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) On top of this, we have seen the cost of living crisis impact on poorer families’ ability to engage in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) Children and young people of black, Asian and other ethnicities, as well as those from less affluent families - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) development and access to sport, providing central life skills and helping to shape a positive future for disadvantaged - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Greg Clark (Con - Tunbridge Wells) The devastation of the families of Fuller’s victims has been heartbreaking, as my hon. - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Members examples of what families have had to go through. - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) It means that women who were convicted continue to be disadvantaged by the mandatory retention of such - Speech Link
4: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Families who have lost loved ones or who have suffered injuries are desperate for change. - Speech Link
5: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) I fully understand the impact on families; I have sometimes had to talk to families who have had to accept - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Tue 14 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I met some of the families, including a mother, Amanda Damari. - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) increase the structural inequalities that already exist, and we know that women and girls are already disadvantaged - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) In Khartoum, Sudanese women, girls and whole families have been raped in their homes and in the street - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) The impact on children, women, families and communities is enormous. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
2nd reading - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) This will ensure that postmasters are not disadvantaged by the unique challenges of expediting legislation - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) done to the sub-postmasters, it has been carried down and will be carried down in generations of their families - Speech Link
3: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) The destruction of the lives and livelihoods of the sub-postmasters and their families is unspeakable - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) It is important that we recognise the impact on sub-postmasters’ families, as the Lost Chances for the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Care Leavers: Universal Credit - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the Staying Put programme to increase the number of care leavers who stay living with their foster families - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) excellent Question from the right reverend Prelate, I say that young parents are one group particularly disadvantaged - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: John Howell (Con - Henley) Fiona Hill hails from a disadvantaged background but managed to rise to work on the international stage - Speech Link
2: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) They are some of the most disadvantaged communities in Cornwall, and indeed in the country. - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) They came from families who fought in two world wars. - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Generations of families worked down our pits. - Speech Link
5: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, coalfield areas are still over-represented among Scotland’s most disadvantaged - Speech Link