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Westminster Hall
Spring Budget 2024: Welsh Economy - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) should always cover essential costs.On regeneration and the replacement of the European structural funds - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Levelling up was never about ensuring that Wales got not a penny less than it did under European funds - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) The constituent described to me how her small monthly pension was hit by the impact of that and how unfair - Speech Link
4: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Local authority leaders across Wales are delighted by the extra support that the UK Government are giving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) My major interest in this Bill is Clauses 12 and 13, about local government pension schemes. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) authorities; administering authorities of local government pension schemes; universities and higher - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Ogmore) The Competition and Markets Authority has been clear about the potential harms that unregulated AI could - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) This is the choice: either he can cut the state pension or the NHS, which national insurance funds—that - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It is this Government who have just delivered a £900 increase to the state pension. - Speech Link
4: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Claire has raised institutional failings with the Financial Conduct Authority, which appears toothless - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) debt payment in the past year alone.According to a report published recently by the Financial Conduct Authority - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) For example, the Government are aware, as is the Financial Conduct Authority, that car insurance in the - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) issue stems from my role as a constituency MP—activity in the North sea energy sector is vital to the local - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) , with 86% of private pension savers now participating more than they were before. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) We feel that this fleecehold practice should be abolished altogether and revert to local authority control - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It will cause very serious difficulties for pension funds and other good-faith investors. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howard of Rising (Con - Life peer) fund benefits from pension funds which have invested in freehold ground rents.There is a strong risk - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) An example may be where a local authority granted a head lease to a developer before 22 December 2017 - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) It is up to the developers and the local planning authority to agree on specific issues relating to new - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Safety - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) against those who do not step up to their responsibilities.Colleagues in the fire and rescue services and local - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) During the delay, key design details have been missing, and both house builders and local authorities - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) as transparent as possible, so that residents who are impacted can understand where their individual local - Speech Link
4: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) possible future policy on ground rents, will see an indication that people who own such buildings—the pension - Speech Link
5: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) exactly where such costs come from.The second thing that is that our colleagues in the Financial Conduct Authority - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cross-Solent Ferries - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) with it—the Isle of Wight ferries have been treated as collateral for loans for private equity and for pension - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) That means that when local issues arise around local services, locally led solutions are the best way - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) This new legislation will require the North Sea Transition Authority to run an annual process for new - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) We should license onshore exploration and drilling for shale gas, subject to a local referendum in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) At this time, the North Sea Transition Authority—the licensing authority—has no requirement to offer - Speech Link
4: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) For that to happen, there need to be allocated funds and plans, but, again, the Bill does not do that - Speech Link
5: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) We very much hope that they will continue to make profits, because it pays our pension funds and a lot - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) The report is about the WASPI women—Women Against State Pension Inequality. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) same things in England, and there are many examples of the Scottish Government hanging on to those funds - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend is extremely consistent in his criticism of his local authority. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The ombudsman’s report on raising the state pension age has now been published. - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I suggest that his local authority and the councillors in question reflect on the stance they are taking - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) authority pension funds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) that some councillors who serve on pensions committees are not particularly expert in managing these funds - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Now, because of the encouragement by the Government, the individual funds are not actually investing - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) To be clear, local authority councillors and university leaders are not public authorities in their own - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) in a local authority, I think it is clear that the fine would be imposed on the public authority, not - Speech Link