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Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) We saw this during the coronavirus pandemic, when local authorities rose to the challenge of distributing - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) Half are not confident that they will have enough funding to fulfil their legal duties next year, 2024 - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) is woven into the whole of the provision of tackling homelessness, including the “A bed every night” scheme - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) When authorities issue a Section 114 notice, both the NCVO and Women’s Aid report that all their funding - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Finally, in Blackpool, the central regeneration scheme is scheduled to get under way, following planning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) aid to a claimant through the Windrush compensation scheme, and I wish them every success.Another concern - Speech Link
2: Lord Woolley of Woodford (XB - Life peer) The victims of the Windrush scandal are not offered legal aid and, as such, this House should note and - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) There is a strong case for some form of legal aid to help people do that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This measure also ensures the stability of the VAT and excise regimes while providing legal certainty - Speech Link
2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) the EU, and that does not sit comfortably, particularly as we should no longer be bound by EU state aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Government can fund free school meals for everybody: simply deal with one tax abuse, which arises from gift aid - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The Government’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic was made possible through the powerful - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flying Schools - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) says that we also need new protections to help secure the training pipeline of commercial pilots to aid - Speech Link
2: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) In addition to that, the students are unsecured creditors, so there is no legal requirement for them - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) loan guarantees; support for exporters; the Bank of England’s covid corporate financing facility; the coronavirus - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) The scheme of the Act makes that clear. - Speech Link
2: Karl Turner (LAB - Kingston upon Hull East) The public will wonder why on earth Boris Johnson was entitled to more than £250,000 in legal aid. - Speech Link
3: William Cash (CON - Stone) and the lack of clarity as to where one starts and the other stops, have been recurring themes of the coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) just the local authority’s cost—never mind the other costs for the other parties.The Bill proposes a scheme - Speech Link
2: None that is a matter of common knowledge—but it is on the road to putting things in order, and, with the aid - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) This in turn triggered an approach to RICS to amend its EWS1 scheme and its advice to mortgage valuers - Speech Link
4: None ;(c) criminal liabilities.(4) A transfer scheme may—(a) create rights, or impose liabilities, in relation - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Again, the British Business Bank has noted:“After the end of the coronavirus loans facility in March - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 17 May 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) happy to turn a blind eye to the huge corpus of EU legislation from 1973 to 2020 are now praying in aid - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Bill, with its cliff-edge, had caused so much concern that civil servants were choosing to reduce legal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) be the case when we are potentially talking about legislation, regulations, public protections and legal - Speech Link
4: None These efforts are being supported by specialist legal expertise from outside government, and Parliament - Speech Link
5: None health and animal welfare during certain serious disruptions of Member States’ control systems due to coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None research unit, found that 14% of British adults believed the real purpose of mass vaccination against coronavirus - Speech Link
2: None I was aware of some of the legal ambiguities around those times. - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) When asked about the content of the computer science curriculum, which is often prayed in aid in terms - Speech Link
4: None There are many other excellent examples, such as the National Gallery’s Take One Picture scheme, which - Speech Link
5: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) It is a constant source of frustration that computer science is prayed in aid by the Department for Education - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) I thank the CPRE, whose excellent legal advisers devised this amendment. - Speech Link
2: None The phenomenon of residential complaints about music and other noise resources, exasperated by the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) England, approximately 70% of the statutory consultation work will continue to be reliant on grant in aid - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) Some leaseholders have been given legal protection under the Act. - Speech Link
5: None The scheme will recognise the positive action of responsible developers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) They move us on from the patronising terms surrounding so-called overseas aid and assistance to the words - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) The IRA completely relaxes state aid rules for green industries and really has changed the global game - Speech Link
3: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) relaunches and even ministerial reshuffles, our economy remains smaller now than it was prior to the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) Lords that His Majesty’s Treasury has rigorous processes in place to ensure that we comply with our legal - Speech Link