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Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Let me be clear: homelessness is not a lifestyle choice. - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) I welcome the announcement of measures to ensure that violent sex offenders serve their full sentence - Speech Link
3: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) Decades of inaction have left us with runaway rents, rising evictions and record levels of homelessness - Speech Link
4: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) He must also be commended for his work on tackling homelessness and dealing with leasehold issues.The - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) dispossessed and expelled Jews from nearly all Middle Eastern countries in the 1940s.Among the worst offenders - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) criminalising the sharing of intimate images and introducing a statutory aggravating factor at sentencing for offenders - Speech Link
3: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) ; I came into this House to do something about homelessness. - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) , with 135,000 young people a year accessing homelessness services. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) This week, she told us her answer to homelessness: “Take away their tents.” - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) The Government cannot fix homelessness without increasing the supply of housing, and they cannot boost - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Sadly, however, too many ex-offenders do not yet have that opportunity. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) I will start with homelessness and homeless families. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) have problems with addiction, homelessness, poor mental health, or a combination of all three. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) The level of public drug use and homelessness, and the lack of medical care for homeless people, was - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) Perhaps we have a hint as to why: the Home Secretary thinks homelessness is a “lifestyle choice”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) In the Home Secretary’s view, homelessness is a “lifestyle choice”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) halved; burglary also halved; antisocial behaviour down by 70%; tougher sentences for rapists and sex offenders - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) We need to do so much more on poverty and homelessness. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) I also welcome the moves on whole-life sentences for the most heinous of offenders. - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) welcome the measures that the Government are going to take on tougher sentences for the most serious offenders - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) We are being promised tougher sentences, yet only weeks ago judges were being told not to send offenders - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) The Government are categorical that the worst offenders should be locked away for as long as it takes - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) How can he reassure the public that this is not just a green light to offenders? - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) the context for offending—not an excuse, but the context—can be deep-seated problems of addiction, homelessness - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) Can he assure us that those persistent offenders will still be judged? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) My fourth point is about Government policy on foreign national offenders. - Speech Link
2: Scott Benton (IND - Blackpool South) front of the world-famous Blackpool seafront; over £5 million helping to address rough sleeping and homelessness - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) working with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to minimise the potential impact on homelessness - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) officers on our streets—a record number—which is enabling us to take action across the board to bring more offenders - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) It is critical for maintaining police confidence, bringing offenders to justice and keeping the public - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Update - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None trebling illegal working fines and initiating a tenfold increase in right to rent fines for repeat offenders - Speech Link
2: None Since our deal with Albania in December last year, we have returned more than 3,500 immigration offenders - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) appropriate, community-based accommodation, but the way to achieve that is not by evicting them into homelessness—in - Speech Link