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Lords Chamber
Freedom of Speech - Fri 10 Dec 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As an independent regulator, I am careful not to give my opinions on the issues of the day too often, - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkham (CON - Life peer) I doubt that there is a more challenged profession in the UK in 2021 than that of the comedian, whether - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (CON - Excepted Hereditary) In December 2019, the Policy Institute at King’s College London published an important report after a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) a criminal offence for failure to prevent economic crime, reform Companies House and introduce a beneficial - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) a criminal offence for failure to prevent economic crime, reform Companies House and introduce a beneficial - Speech Link
3: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) It was mentioned in the Queen’s Speech in 2019, and again in the G7 meeting in Cornwall in 2021, but - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) Google finally took it down in December. - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) mentioned that the Governor of the Bank of England, every other financial - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Elections Bill
2nd reading - Tue 07 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Damien Moore (CON - Southport) who an absent voter has chosen to vote for.I also welcome the steps taken by this Government to introduce - Speech Link
2: James Grundy (CON - Leigh) in the local elections, leading to a considerable increase in participation, especially by independent - Speech Link
3: Mark Fletcher (CON - Bolsover) It was very much about an independent group that had won the election, and in fact, the Labour party - Speech Link
4: Alberto Costa (CON - South Leicestershire) in England and Wales. - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Northern Ireland in the 1990s and the situation in the United Kingdom in 2021? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Summer Adjournment - Thu 22 Jul 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) These services may not be restored until December. - Speech Link
2: James Daly (CON - Bury North) Bury and its people and its football fans have been badly let down by the Football Association, the Football - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) having a go at the England football team. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The call for evidence has given us much food for thought. We published our response in May 2021. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) late year of 2021—means its timing is fortuitous, for today a report was released by the Institute for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) As the Guardian reported:“Andrew Marshall, appearing at the sentencing hearing for the regulator, told - Speech Link
4: None It is the means by which the regulator can check that companies are properly meeting their duty to ensure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 12 Jul 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) We are therefore providing that the Office for Students, the regulator for higher education in England - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) fans by criticising the England team for visibly expressing their opposition to racism by taking the - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) In December 2020, 61 university student unions carried out the survey. - Speech Link
4: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) , Wales and Scotland, with an average of only £43.70 allocated per student in England for hardship support - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) studying in September 2021? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None An assurance by the Minister that Natural England will have this power anyway, and an explanation of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) England and to produce targets for the protection, restoration an expansion of trees in woodlands in - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I support the efforts of the noble Baroness, Lady Young, to introduce a national tree strategy for England - Speech Link
4: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Burning (England) Regulations 2021, which ban the burning without licence of heather on peat over 40 - Speech Link
5: None Burning (England) Regulations 2021, which a number of noble Lords mentioned. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None an independent body—I stress that word “independent”. - Speech Link
2: None But that was not the issue, as the sanction had been made by an independent, outside body. - Speech Link
3: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) an “unaccountable regulator” or “making it up as it goes along”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) The lack of an independent environmental regulator, despite the fact that it was first recommended in - Speech Link
5: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) Indeed, in December last year, the issue was exposed in relation to funding cuts to the EA of 80%. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Winterbourne View Hospital and the Transforming Care Programme - Thu 10 Jun 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) the management of Castlebeck, which ran the hospital, and by the regulator, the Care Quality Commission.I - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) five years has been added on and we are only in 2021, is March 2024 an ambitious enough target to hit - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) She began her campaign for an autism Act in England in 2008 to tackle the lack of support for autistic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
2nd reading - Mon 07 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) in England for 2030, aiming to halt the decline of nature. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) My fear is that the proposed OEP will not be truly independent and that the regulator will not be at - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) set out in Section 13 of the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021, an Act of the Scottish - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Salisbury (Bishops - Bishops) of England to aim for net zero by 2030. - Speech Link
5: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Not one of the rivers in England and Wales has achieved an acceptable standard for the level of chemical - Speech Link