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Westminster Hall
Digital Exclusion - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dines (Con - Derbyshire Dales) Digital exclusion is a social, economic and increasingly political issue. - Speech Link
2: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) available to every home in the country as a universal public service, if only the Government had the political - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) On the subject of digital exclusion, we should also look at the opposite: digital literacy. - Speech Link
4: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) It is vital that digital exclusion is given as much importance as we gave to literacy in schools over - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) interplay of factors including age, socio-economic status, disability, geography, educational attainment, literacy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Naturally, increasing media literacy provides an answer to those challenges. - Speech Link
2: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) They control the editorial and political direction. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education: 11 to 16 Year-olds - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) the report of your Lordships’ Education for 11-16 Year Olds Committee requires careful study by all political - Speech Link
2: Lord Bichard (XB - Life peer) subjects as currently defined are the route to ensuring that children leave school with functional literacy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) We know how to take this performance approach, but alongside numeracy and literacy we need data literacy - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) I have spent my whole life not running things, not organising corporations, nor being a political leader - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We need to take action on digital literacy. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) Although our readings of the Bill might be different, I am grateful to Members across the usual political - Speech Link
2: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) and breadth of the UK, because they encourage savings and responsible lending, and promote financial literacy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Physician Associates - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) Indeed, things can be looked at in Northern Ireland, too, with the restoration of political arrangements.An - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) One is competency; another is patient literacy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We must redouble our efforts for a sustainable ceasefire and a political process for a two-state solution.On - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend is right to draw attention to our nation’s success in climbing the international literacy tables - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Whatever we think about a particular person’s political persuasion, their views or their voting record - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) With the arts declining by 40% at GCSE and no government plan to improve literacy, oracy, creativity - Speech Link
2: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) It tethers political grievance directly to our cultural institutions—to our media, whose integrity gets - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell (Lab - Life peer) local government has underpinned much of our success and it continues to be subject to the vagaries of political - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) Berkeley of Knighton, the noble Baroness, Lady Rebuck, and others who rightly mentioned the importance of literacy - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None What if digital literacy programmes or information for new parents becomes an area in which a single - Speech Link
2: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) what we are doing here, it would give us a better prospect of enabling the Government, of whatever political - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) There is surely enough goodwill in the political system for colleagues to agree a way forward on this - Speech Link
4: None in the other place, my honourable friend Caroline Lucas was talking about big oil supporting MPs and political - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) the period covered by the plan, which must be not more than three years.(3) In particular, a media literacy - Speech Link
2: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) principles of social partnership, public interest and democratic pluralism; that is, as they say, the Welsh political - Speech Link
3: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) I see no reason why languages should be party political. They are a shared cultural asset. - Speech Link