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Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Defending FORB has risen up the political agenda.I am interested in comments made by Sir Malcolm Evans - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Online Filter Bubbles: Misinformation and Disinformation - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) We ended up with some useful points, particularly duties on Ofcom relating to media literacy and making - Speech Link
2: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) Friend has outlined are important, as are the things about digital media literacy and all the rest of - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Government should invest in initiatives and strategies that promote media literacy, while technology - Speech Link
4: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) That enables students to be confident with media literacy and allows them to be resilient in the face - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Musculoskeletal Conditions and Employment - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) Government must also give thought to the fact that over 7 million adults in England have very poor literacy - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) entertaining and sometimes enjoyable to have debates in which we just kick the Government and other political - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) The point about literacy and digital skills has been noted. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) involvement in its development, ensuring adequate safeguards as well as improved skills and information literacy - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) As a result, as the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, pointed out, it will become easier for political parties - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) The Bill extends the opportunities for direct mail marketing for charitable or political purposes. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) opinions data without consent where this is necessary for their political activities. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Welsh Devolution - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Rob Roberts (Ind - Delyn) Both sides have their pre-prepared scapegoats to help them win political arguments, and it is always - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) clarification and comfort that some sought, when it cost us nothing to do so.Our approach neutered the political - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Its use is particularly questionable in political discussions where it is often used as a way of dividing - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) Data published by the Ministry of Justice shows that 57% of adult prisoners have literacy levels below - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) I thank the noble Lord, Lord Herbert, for sharing his personal and political perspective on that legislation - Speech Link
5: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) The point about it—this is why it is not a political comment in the sense of a cheap, low comment—is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Latin America - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) House takes note of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the countries of Latin America, and the political - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) which I am sure that they are well aware, as soon as possible.As well as our trading relationship, political - Speech Link
3: Lord Brennan (Non-affiliated - Life peer) They are educated people, with a high literacy rate in most countries. - Speech Link
4: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The remarkable political maturity that much of Latin America has demonstrated recently is something we - Speech Link
5: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) Trade and development must be linked, and I am not convinced—this is not a party-political point—that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) If we want to rehabilitate people, we will not be able to do so unless we address the issue of literacy - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) Frankly, our political system has failed the justice system over many decades, so let us try to step - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Members have already discussed getting people back into work and off addiction, and dealing with literacy - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (Con - Great Grimsby) talked earlier about people who have a reading age equivalent of nine or 10 and who must improve their literacy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) These allegations are incredibly serious and tantamount to bribery from a rival political party, potentially - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Lady think is responsible for plummeting international rankings in maths, literacy and science? - Speech Link
3: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) If we want to improve standards in politics, that begins at the grassroots level of political activism - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Early Years Education - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) whether it could harness the trend of increasing screentime to narrow the gap in language, maths and literacy - Speech Link
2: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) This is not a party-political issue: children are entitled to better food than they are getting at the - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) However, it is too often framed by the needs of working parents, with political parties trying to outbid - Speech Link