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Westminster Hall
Digital Exclusion - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dines (Con - Derbyshire Dales) is a huge number of people.Digital exclusion disproportionately erodes the rights of our elderly and disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Scottish Government provided 72,000 devices and 14,000 internet connections to individuals, children and families - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) million laptops and tablets to schools, trusts, local authorities and further education providers for disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) through Community learning, which is an important stepping stone for learners, particularly post-19 disadvantaged - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) protections are in place and loss of these services would hit the most vulnerable, who are already disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) catching up on the media coverage of the Paralympic Games, many international athletes, friends and families - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Many families subscribe to one or two providers, as well as having the PSBs. - Speech Link
4: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) Many individuals and families continue to face intrusion, harassment, abuse, sexism and discrimination - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) The impact on them and their families is literally heartbreaking. - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The importance of youth services and the value that they bring to young people, particularly those in disadvantaged - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) for communities, in particular for children and young people.We are also committed to ensuring that disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) We have put £2.5 million towards disadvantaged children and young people accessing green spaces. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) of their property after 27 November 2023 but prior to this Act receiving Royal Assent (Tenant A) is disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) This has seriously impacted many vulnerable residents, including the elderly, young families, people - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Such leaseholders risk being seriously disadvantaged, so new clause 23 would take steps to assess and - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) change to deal with the iniquities present on new estates, and who are committed to setting ordinary families - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
BBC News Impartiality: Government's Role - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) they would have seen that it is not the people they think, but many Protestants, who are currently disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Why not interview the victims, the injured, the Israeli families of the murdered of the pogrom or the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) racialised minorities, disabled people and women; recognition that poverty is experienced not just as a disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) Low pay and insecure work continue to prevent families being lifted out of poverty. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) right reverend friend the Bishop of Durham, who has been a tireless campaigner for the economically disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) lone-parent families, families with younger children and some ethnic minority groups. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The pupil premium will ensure that targeted funding continues to help schools to support disadvantaged - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pupil Mental Health, Well-being and Development - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) What are they doing to push away pupils—particularly, but far from only, those from disadvantaged backgrounds - Speech Link
2: Lord Sterling of Plaistow (Con - Life peer) To support these pupils and their families, they would require access to more specialist professional - Speech Link
3: Lord Wei (Con - Life peer) This would add further stress to families who have chosen to go down that route. - Speech Link
4: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) I have some experience with families with children whose lack of speech is a cause for concern. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) yesterday’s Times that:“This government’s attempt to recreate a 1950s curriculum is of little help to many disadvantaged - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independent School Fees: VAT - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Many hard-working families up and down the land make huge sacrifices saving to send their children to - Speech Link
2: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) excellent partnership work they do in order to cover their costs, or reduce their offer of bursaries to disadvantaged - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) schools became the most segregated in the world, with Britain’s immigrant children clustered in the most disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) many of our major independent schools such as Eton and Harrow give 100% bursaries to children from disadvantaged - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Access to Education: South-East Northumberland - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) These are the issues that are important to families and children in their early stages.We have spent - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) policymaking, some schools have policies that effectively can prioritise high-achieving students and exclude disadvantaged - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) Those children and families desperately need our support, but we are unable to offer it because we simply - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, I am also aware that that is not the journey that all families follow. The hon. - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) allow us to monitor vulnerable populations, such as those with disabilities, refugees or those from disadvantaged - Speech Link