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Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
2nd reading - Wed 07 Sep 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Clause 21 and schedule 6 extend existing payments legislation to include payments systems and service - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Safe Hands appeared to be a funeral plan scam, but that was not the case. - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) referred to things such as funeral plans, but we also need to pay - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Jul 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) and fill the gap.The Bill reminds me not only of those debates, but of our debates on the children’s funeral - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) It requires secondary legislation and changes to Government systems that administer statutory payments - Speech Link
3: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) Both maternity payments are designed to provide a measure of financial security to help women to stop - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Windrush Review - Wed 29 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton) In her progress report, Wendy Williams highlights the timeliness of compensation payments as one of the - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) fault of the Government—so much so that when his son tragically died he could not even pay for his funeral - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) I understand why that might sound appealing, but it would risk delaying payments to people even further - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Delivery of Public Services - Tue 28 Jun 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) households most vulnerable to high inflation will receive an extra £1,200 this year, with the first payments - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) A third, also with their passport inexplicably lost, was unable to attend a relative’s funeral despite - Speech Link
3: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Canada, met with intransigence by this Government; and another who needs to attend their brother’s funeral - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) While she is waiting for her universal credit payments to come through, she has been left without anything - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (CON - Shipley) Her father died suddenly abroad, and in order to attend his funeral she needs to have her passport today - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funeral Plan Industry - Thu 26 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lucy Allan (CON - Telford) require plans that are fully paid—we should not forget that most plans are fully paid—to make further payments - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) The eligibility criteria need to be simplified to allow payments to reach more people.I have in front - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) As has been said, a funeral plan is not in itself necessary to pay for a funeral. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) Some of it falls due as cash payments and some of it is rolled over. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) not know about anybody else’s, but my office is inundated with people saying, “I’ve got to go to a funeral - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) crucial at a time when people have less, if any, disposable income.I spoke last week about Safe Hands funeral - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases - Tue 17 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) Nadia had to spend months challenging her care payments when they went up from £15 to £68 per week. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) There is no benefit uplift, no subsided electricity or gas payments, and not even a food voucher for - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) That is on top of existing targeted support such as the warm home discount, cold weather payments and - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) winter fuel payments. - Speech Link
5: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) They wish to get a passport to enable them to go to a family funeral overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The poem was read by me at my father’s funeral, so I hope that we will agree on many matters.I refer - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) carbon emitted elsewhere are sequestrated there, and there will no doubt be more in the future, but no payments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 10 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) He could have matched the increase in Scottish-issued social security payments by 6%. - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) As Fair Game has highlighted, we also need an overhaul of the outdated parachute payments system and - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) An increase in social security payments, with an uplift in universal credit, is the obvious way to do - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I also hope to see interim provisions in the financial services Bill to improve the regulation of funeral - Speech Link