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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) These powers are essential for commissioners to drive forward change, and to hold agencies and national - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) services.However, support services are hugely underfunded and undervalued, and children are facing a postcode lottery - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) I very much hope and expect that this will provide the national framework for addressing the problems - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) cannot and should not be a reason for not getting legal advice, and it should not depend on a postcode lottery - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) National insurance numbers remain constant throughout an individual’s life. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) care to people in receipt of certain benefits, which is almost £300 less than what someone earning the national - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) civil service or a ministerial level; it is everyone and no one.Work must be done to end the postcode lottery - Speech Link
3: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) Member mentioned, the Government were warned about this—after a National Audit Office report in 2019, - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) That should include a new national carers’ strategy. - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) It is therefore not directly comparable to either the national minimum wage or the national living wage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) I beg to move,That this House has considered the postcode lottery of funding for hospices; and calls - Speech Link
2: Colleen Fletcher (Lab - Coventry North East) care is met, both in in-patient units and in the community, and eliminate the inequality and postcode lottery - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) That in itself, because of the size of estates and the value of properties, creates a postcode lottery - Speech Link
4: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) We have heard several times about the postcode lottery for NHS funding for our hospices. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) Agency for inspection.A major concern is that businesses cannot forecast their costs because it is a lottery - Speech Link
2: Lord Colgrain (Con - Excepted Hereditary) So it is particularly frustrating that the Government say there is no room on the national curriculum - Speech Link
3: Earl of Shrewsbury (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-farming retired member of the National Farmers’ Union. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I have not picked up whether the National Crime Agency is able to pursue organised criminality in the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) National self-sufficiency in food has fallen from 74% to 61% since the mid-1980s. - Speech Link
2: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) Does she agree that we need a national policy on solar farms? - Speech Link
3: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) I think 3% of national electricity is produced by solar. - Speech Link
4: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) but a much wider issue is the fact that connections in this country are pretty much available on a lottery - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) The correct use of many national symbols, such as royal names, state emblems, the royal arms and the - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) our national flags, the cross of St George and the Union Jack. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) I am grateful to the National Lottery Community Fund for helping us to get that money out as quickly - Speech Link
4: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) The national portfolio boasts numerous workspaces that receive revenue funding, such as Spike Island - Speech Link
5: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) With lottery funding and Government funding, that is about £444 million every year. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Statistics, which means that debt incurred by a public body is counted as part of the national debt. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) Secondly, when we are looking at cultural organisations, does lottery money count as public or private - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The honest answer is that I do not know about the lottery, but I will find out for the noble Baroness - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Secretary of State to remove any of the exemptions that are listed in the Bill, such as the one on national - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) That vicious cycle repeats itself nearly every minute of every day in our national health system, because - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) In other words, we are looking not just at national enforcement, but at helping our very important and - Speech Link
3: Jake Berry (Con - Rossendale and Darwen) Those are not my statistics, but those of the Office for National Statistics. - Speech Link
4: Craig Whittaker (Con - Calder Valley) The Chartered Trading Standards Institute has warned that cuts have created a “postcode lottery” of provision - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Citizens’ Assemblies and Local Democracy - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) making.Very briefly, citizens’ assemblies are representative groups of people, selected at random through the lottery - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) Across our institutions—national, devolved and even local—politicians seem to be desiring to abrogate - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) about, with regard to the efficacy of citizens’ assemblies, is selection through a random postcode lottery - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Schedule 4, where the market value of assets is defined not by a relevant reference to the accepted national - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It appears that the National Trust already has such an exemption and one not restricted to those parts - Speech Link
3: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the lease, they will immediately reoffer the flat for sale with vacant possession and enjoy the big lottery - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) They include the National Leasehold Campaign, led by Councillor Katie Kendrick, Jo Darbyshire and Cath - Speech Link