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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) While not perfect, the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act is a step forward, streamlining the planning - Speech Link
2: Lord Ravensdale (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I welcome the direction of travel in the Bill and that the Government are coming up with a number of - Speech Link
3: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) approximately 10% a year, and that the intensity of the rainfall is greater now than 10 years ago. - Speech Link
4: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and to pick up a couple of the - Speech Link
5: Lord Inglewood (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The parallel public and private regimes taken as a whole make no real sense, and much of the money talked - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) The Government and the public will need to know the impact of this measure, after a year or at a period - Speech Link
2: None need to get to work on time, keep a job and rise up the ladder. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer)and that:“A lot of our young people—nearly 1 million—are effectively on the scrap heap”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) around the gig economy, and to give us a little bit of space to do that. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Business Rates Relief: High-street Businesses - Wed 04 Jun 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) If someone invests in their premises, the rateable value goes up and their taxes go up—it is a tax on - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) We now need the new Labour Government to step up to the mark and ensure that reform happens.As many hon - Speech Link
3: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) Will the Minister do the right thing and undertake a root-and-branch reform of the system to drive the - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) tax rates and multipliers is that they do not have a cap in the way that the previous Government’s relief - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) on the most vulnerable, of Labour’s decision to scrap the £2 cap and raise it to £3. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) corner of the constituency and still find a route home, but most people simply give up. - Speech Link
3: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) Now, with the £2 fare cap rising to £3, a commuter making two journeys a day, five days a week, will - Speech Link
4: John Milne (LD - Horsham) Pensioners now have to walk over a mile to the nearest stop or pay for expensive taxis. - Speech Link
5: Julia Buckley (Lab - Shrewsbury) It is a disgrace, and it is a painful symptom of the impact that the last Government had on public services - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration - Wed 21 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) That is a failure by Governments over a period of decades, and it is now time to listen to the British - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Gentleman now, because he stood up when I got to the end of a sentence. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Well, I do, and I hope those on my Front Bench now do, and the Government need to wake up and smell the - Speech Link
4: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) The return hubs he is now so desperately trying to set up are only a watered-down version of the Rwanda - Speech Link
5: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) across a range of areas, from public services and community cohesion to housing stock, the economy and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Devolution (Immigration) (Scotland) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 25 Apr 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) the Labour party, which now wants to crow about the situation and the cap on young people. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) He said:“I’ve had a number of conversations with Yvette Cooper and UK colleagues in the run-up to the - Speech Link
3: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) From my time as a shadow Northern Ireland Minister, and even now as the Chair of the Northern Ireland - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) I spent over a decade on the Public Accounts Committee, looking at the problems of Whitehall, and even - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) the most senior civil servants and public sector officials. - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) It is a pleasure to follow the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. - Speech Link
3: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) Come on—let us do it now. It is a good idea, which is actually cheaper and benefits the patient. - Speech Link
4: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab - Calder Valley) are now setting up a new deal with GPs. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) The Government needed to agree a pay deal that was sensible and affordable, not talk about the money - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inheritance Tax Relief: Farms - Mon 10 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) These farmers take a pittance and get up at 4 o’clock in the morning for the privilege. - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) he will have to sell the farm and give up on the livelihood and life he thought he was going to have - Speech Link
3: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) Friend for a good point well made.From waking up before the crack of dawn in the lambing and calving - Speech Link
4: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Murrison.I rise to speak up for the 337 signatories - Speech Link
5: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) is the overwhelming priority of fixing the public finances in a fair and sustainable way. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) I thank the millions of dedicated public servants who work in and for the sector for all their efforts - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Community projects are now a second thought, and council tax has gone up. - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) We will shine a light on the areas needed, as will the Chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - Speech Link
4: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) The Government’s trajectory—with the fair funding review, and a look at how and why we end up with the - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) and the rise of academies, and therefore a much larger share of that funding no longer sits within the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming and Inheritance Tax - Wed 04 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) tax relief for family farms and fixing the public finances in a fair way. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) They are defending a tax break for estates worth up to £3 million while attacking a pay rise for the - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) of the capital, because they have a familial and emotional connection to the land, and are now finding - Speech Link
4: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) I understand the dynamic between spending Departments and the Treasury in the run-up to a Budget, and - Speech Link
5: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) My dad died exactly a year ago today. My mum is a partner in the business, and she is now 81. - Speech Link