To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Lords Chamber
Fire Safety Regulations and Guidance - Thu 14 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Tope (LD - Life peer) Electrical Safety First has found concerning trends in London-based e-bike and e-scooter users. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Improving the safety of electrical goods in the home will lead to a reduction in domestic fires. - Speech Link
3: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) The Home Office holds overall departmental responsibility for fire and safety. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Copper Wire Telecoms - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) These are examples of the ways in which we are able to help people who want to remain in their own home - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Because my husband has a home phone and a personal phone, he has two different providers, and we did - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) I would like every home in the land to have at least a superfast broadband connection. - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) The safety of vulnerable people has to be our top priority. - Speech Link
5: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) That includes specific measures for electrical power back-up required in fixed-line networks.The Ofcom - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pedicabs (London) Bill [HL] - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) issues, although it sadly did not come up in the ballot; I had enormous support on this issue from Electrical - Speech Link
2: None There are not the same support mechanisms, back-up and control systems for purchasing electrical goods - Speech Link
3: Lord Strathcarron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Some kind of electrical assistance is therefore needed. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) noble friend Lady McIntosh raised, the figures, fines and penalties are an issue that lie with the Home - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
2nd reading - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) industry-compiled Global E-waste Monitor showed that the UK produces 1.6 million tonnes of electronic and electrical - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) I was delighted to learn that Nottingham, my home city, is one of only a small number with two unicorns—billion-dollar - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) For example, I have been looking at my home broadband contract recently. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Housing in Tourist Destinations - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) For many young people, home ownership has become a distant dream. - Speech Link
2: Simon Jupp (Con - East Devon) a registration scheme, which would help local authorities to monitor compliance with key health and safety - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) They were evicted from their home; their home became an Airbnb; they had to leave the whole area; their - Speech Link
4: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) control over which properties become short-term lets, they have introduced licensing safeguards for electrical - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) We are satisfied that there is a gap in redress services for park home residents and are committed to - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998;(iii) Regulation 3 of the Electrical Safety Standards in the - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) However, I want to press home why we think this is important. - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) , the information recorded on the portal will save local authorities time when enforcing health and safety - Speech Link
5: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) need to be clear in their intention that this is about privacy grounds only where necessary for the safety - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None We need to be concerned, too, about the challenge from companies to online safety legislation. - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) growth of unsafe and dodgy goods sold online as legit: the British Toy & Hobby Association and Electrical - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Yet according to Home Office figures, the yearly arrests of football ticket touts have been decreasing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None Linda Cobb: The housing health and safety rating system. - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Look at gas safety certificates: the campaign when they came in was very effective because it was a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) At one end of the spectrum are the EPRs, rated at 3,300 megawatts of electrical power, which are to be - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) As a result of how they were built, we are seeing not just building safety issues but children in particular - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady feel that the Bill can satisfactorily address that to ensure the health and safety of tenants and - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) To ensure that tenants have that safety, does the right hon. - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) It should cover things such as when the property last had a gas safety certificate and when the electrical - Speech Link
5: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) sector has utterly failed to provide homes that are decent, affordable and allow people to live in safety - Speech Link