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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thomas of Winchester (LDEM - Life peer) To apply for PIP, either by phone or online, an extensive form must be filled in. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) The Church of England provides around 65% of rural primary schools in England. - Speech Link
3: Lord Etherton (CB - Life peer) The review’s report was submitted in October 2021 and was published in December 2021. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) It is a chance for the Government to ensure that both the financial regulator and the industry better - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blower (LAB - Life peer) We should bear in mind that the number of hours worked by teachers in England is significantly above - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 16 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Drake (LAB - Life peer) In 2019, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, observed that, previously, the regulator - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) December 1979 in the other place. - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (CON - Life peer) of the Bank of England to be kicked around like a political football. - Speech Link
4: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) It is important that this country has an independent Bank of England with the confidence to exercise - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Under the ground-breaking Online Safety Bill, tech companies will be accountable to an independent regulator - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) An independent regulator for football will not be in place until 2024 at the earliest, as I have said - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) an independent football regulator and support Tracey Crouch’s review. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Henig (LAB - Life peer) We see headline proposals for establishing an independent regulator for football, but no actual Bill. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) For the first time, tech companies will be accountable to an independent regulator to keep their users - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Gambling Harm (Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Committee Report) - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Non-affiliated - Life peer) with problem gambling each year in England alone. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) I was encouraged to hear that in a speech to the GambleAware conference in December 2021, the Minister - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) formal response to the Select Committee’s report in December 2020. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Report stage - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None I do not know; it is a very strange independent body that can be tossed around like a football. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) One recent example is the College of Policing, an independent body able to introduce regulations and - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) England, or £10,000 in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) It was fair for him to set out his case because he wishes to establish an independent committee to report - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) In our democracy an independent person is entitled to stand in a constituency, for a cause that he or - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gambling-related Harm - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Most importantly, the case for a centralised and independent affordability assessment is overwhelming - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) All we are asking for is effective protections to be put in place for customers, and for an industry - Speech Link
3: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Figures published by the regulator the Gambling Commission, covering the period to December 2021, showed - Speech Link
4: Jack Brereton (CON - Stoke-on-Trent South) Commission figures show a drop in problem gambling from 0.6% to 0.3% in the 18 months up to December - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 09 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) Although they pretend to be independent operators, they are puppets controlled by a sick and dangerous - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) To give noble Lords an idea of the scale, we are talking about roughly 95,000 properties in England and - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) the UK—undertook a broad range of enforcement action in 2021. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Waste Industry: Criminality and Regulation - Tue 01 Feb 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) to be £924 million in England, and it will be more than £1 billion by now. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Indeed, the Environment Agency’s 2021 report stated that waste crime costs the economy in England an - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Draft Online Safety Bill Report - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) Last summer, members of the England football team were subject to vile racist abuse at the end of the - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) system where Ofcom, as the independent regulator, can set mandatory codes and standards that we expect - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) it in England and Wales. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) We firmly believe that regulation should be governed through legislation and by an independent regulator - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None 15 in England—and different measures for when the period ends. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (CON - Life peer) She duly went along in December and queued at a drop-in centre for her booster. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) The Care Quality Commission, as the independent regulator, ensures that all contracts meet these standards.Some - Speech Link