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Westminster Hall
Time Banking - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) offer their digital skills, largely—although not necessarily completely—to support older people in learning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) reaching the truth to make pertinent recommendations which addressed what went wrong, and to identify learning - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) However, when it came to learning lessons—discovering what had gone less well—we found ourselves hampered - Speech Link
3: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (XB - Life peer) Equally, he gave terrific support on disability issues; on every occasion, he was very supportive.I support - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) made it clear that all of us have to enter God’s way of living by placing a child in our midst and learning - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The high cost of living with a disability, whether poor physical or mental health, means that the poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools: Special Educational Needs - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) My Lords, around 6% of UK children are affected by dyscalculia: a learning disability impacting numerical - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) framework, which is bringing much more on identification of special educational needs and specific learning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Layard (Lab - Life peer) People with mental health problems comprise at least half of all those on disability benefits who are - Speech Link
2: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Breaking down those numbers by health condition or disability would be very helpful. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) The report says that the Learning and Work Institute said that“since the pandemic if the UK had matched - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They include increased work coach support and disability employment advisers in jobcentres; the Work - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) folks are not getting their food.Digital inclusion is about the stuff, the kit, the skills and the learning - Speech Link
2: Lord Lipsey (Lab - Life peer) exclusion happens: lack of devices; nervousness about using digital; fear of fraud; and physical or mental disability - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The fund aimed to reduce the digital exclusion of people with learning disabilities by providing free - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Department for Education funds community learning and other non-regulated learning, such as building - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nursery Provision: South-west England - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) I have seen the importance and value of play-based learning and have spoken to the brilliant staff and - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) every stage, including by boosting child development, with 500,000 more children hitting the early learning - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Funding for the disability access fund, which is an additional payment to help to make reasonable adjustments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Disability Action Plan - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) serious problems, so, for me, this is a very personal matter.The plan says that the Government were learning - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This will ensure a long-term solution that meets users’ needs, learning lessons from previous elected - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) The second point relates to parents with a child who has a learning difficulty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) I pointed out that the House of Lords Select Committee on disability was very concerned that there are - Speech Link
2: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I am thinking particularly of people disabled by a severe learning difficulty who would not be able to - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) It seems that it is acceptable to regulate for the future of everything —except disability access and - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) as proposed by Amendment 23, is therefore also unnecessary.Amendment 21 would require that relevant disability - Speech Link
5: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) , software and platforms used, as they have been built from scratch, are fully accessible to blind, learning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Disability Action Plan - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) There are disability champions across every Government Department, and of course there is the disability - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) I assure her, the House and all those watching that the plan is absolutely about learning, and delivering - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) I welcome the disability action plan. - Speech Link
4: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) I welcome the disability action plan. - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) We want to make sure that learning comes from play, which is why, when that splash pad is being designed - Speech Link