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Written Statements
Extremism Definition and Community Engagement - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Islamism, however, is a political ideology that seeks to divide, calls for the establishment of a totalitarian - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Financial literacy could also have a positive impact on reducing religious-only marriages, which are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Casey of Blackstock (XB - Life peer) One said, “Louise, whatever you do, do not be political and do not be passionate”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) As that campaign reports:“Financial literacy has been proven to increase social mobility and improve - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We would want them to have a political voice. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Politics needs more of us, and I hope that the spirit of tomorrow will carry into this important political - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We are soaring up the international literacy tables, and we have reformed post-16 education to enable - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) Across different political complexions and none, we should be able to find the kind of agreement that - Speech Link
2: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) The political benefit, as the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, said, is in terms of soft power. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Secretary of State, now my noble friend Lord Blunkett, who was determined to ensure higher standards in literacy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Book Day - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) We must all work together, whatever our political party, to reverse that trend.I am very, very proud - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) That is one reason why improving adult literacy rates is also important. - Speech Link
3: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) I pay tribute to the amazing work of the National Literacy Trust and BookTrust. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) If instead this is just another short-term cynical political gimmick, honestly, what is the point? - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham) decade: whether it is the increased numbers of doctors and nurses, the phenomenal improvement in our literacy - Speech Link
3: Paul Bristow (Con - Peterborough) It will end with the Labour party, one of the two great political parties in our democracy, mandating - Speech Link
4: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Batley and Spen) Such political instability is damaging, to businesses, families and communities.To be fair to the current - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Fiscal policies, political choices and administrative procedures must address gender inequality, so that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Educational Attainment of Boys - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) of the disengaged teenage students were those who had arrived at secondary school aged 11 with low literacy - Speech Link
2: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Why have Governments of different political persuasions not attacked that problem and come forward with - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Friend the Member for Don Valley talked about the importance of literacy, as did my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Security of Elected Representatives - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Protests at representatives’ parties’ offices, democratic venues (such as Parliament or Town Halls) or at political - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Given the ignorance around many other faith communities, how might priority be given to religious literacy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Senedd could do that, or they could take it to Plaid Cymru Member, because that might reflect their political - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) was the same Welsh Bible that clerics such as Griffith Jones from Llanddowror used to provide Welsh literacy - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) ignore and belittle our needs, wants and values, and use devolution—our democracy and our Senedd—as a political - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) The commission’s proposals provide an opportunity for a much-needed overhaul of both political and economic - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Colleges Week - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) This debate has not been primarily party political, and nor should it be. - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Again, let us not have a party political debate—that is not the nature of this discussion today. - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) colleges having to pick up the pieces for young people who, for whatever reason, had not acquired basic literacy - Speech Link