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Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) Part-time and entry-level workers have been the hardest hit; not highly paid City graduates, but bar - Speech Link
2: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) Food and drink inflation has been consistently higher than the main rate. - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) Without housing for workers, hospitality businesses are in real trouble. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) workers was one of the main causes. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) In my experience in MAFF, Defra and the Food Standards Agency, it was one part of the food industry where - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) It certainly needs to go much higher—I was going to say “up the food chain”, but that would be a bad - Speech Link
3: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) It is about food safety, it is illegal, and it is crucial that it is dealt with. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Amendment 7 refers to “illegal migrant crossings”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) crossings, and … increasing the prosecutions of criminal organisations who facilitate illegal migrant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None I entirely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, that social workers would not do, particularly - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) abuse workers and youth workers—already held high caseloads, and, in part, because they do not typically - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Three in five parents said they were able to spend more money on food at home as a result. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , with fruit, vegetables and low sugar levels in both food and drink. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) It failed its staff and exploited vulnerable workers, some of whom were migrant workers who feared speaking - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) In November, we took the first steps to ban rogue employers from sponsoring overseas workers. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That number has doubled since covid, and numbers continue to rise, yet the food supply does not. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We are all concerned about the rise in food poverty in recent years. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) than child and family social workers including, but not limited to, social workers”—forgive me for being - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) to become agency workers, who are of course paid a lot more than social workers. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) and other workers who are employed on a permanent basis with teams.There is a broader range of workers - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Ofsted is not actually responsible for food in schools but can comment on the standards of food. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) This is of course about food, but it is not only about food. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Violence and abuse against shop workers was at epidemic levels. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Attacks on retail workers are totally unacceptable. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) Unlike most people, emergency workers cannot walk away from abuse. - Speech Link
4: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) very publicly, and it is food that is worth a lot of money. - Speech Link
5: None This new clause creates a new offence in relation to emergency workers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Poverty and No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 11 Jun 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Those families should get support without needing a food bank to step in. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady, because it is not supposed to be, but I see the positives of food banks. - Speech Link
3: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) farmers is provided as quickly as possible to children facing food poverty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) I end by drawing the Minister’s attention to the Refugee & Migrant Advice Service alternative to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Notwithstanding Brexit slogans about controlling borders, large numbers of international workers were - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Earning wages would mean contributing to taxes and national insurance, and paying for their own food - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Thirdly, regarding workers, those who genuinely care about stopping those employers who abuse migrant - Speech Link
5: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) First, there was the demand for workers in the health and care sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration - Wed 21 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) end the era of mass low-skilled migration and instead focus on small numbers of very high-skilled workers - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Those steps took effect in April 2023 and April 2024, and they included preventing social care workers - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) That came from a Government who relied utterly and shamelessly on migrant workers to prop up every sector - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Skilled workers were welcomed one week and penalised the next. - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) The last Conservative Government put construction workers on their points-based immigration system. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Summit - Tue 13 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) Lady is saying on the cost of food is precisely what an SPS agreement on agricultural products, food - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) If SPS checks concerned the price of food, we could unilaterally relax them. - Speech Link
3: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) Welsh food and drink exports have fallen by 18% since 2018. - Speech Link
4: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) choices and enhanced food security. - Speech Link