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Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Workers should be supported to build the information, literacy and skills neededto fulfil their capabilities - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Members may be aware that the Data Protection Act 2018 currently permits registered political parties - Speech Link
3: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Some people lack the technological literacy or simply the hardware to get online and make the most of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) Let me explain.I am an old-fashioned kind of girl—a sort of political response to Eartha Kitt. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) The political decision taken was to leave the European Union, but the direct consequence was to leave - Speech Link
3: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We now have 9 million adults in England who have low basic literacy and numeracy skills. - Speech Link
4: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) I should confess that I am an enemy of lower taxation and have been for all of my political life. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Matt Warman (Con - Boston and Skegness) All these projects rely on greater digital literacy among the population, and they rely on the Treasury - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) I have heard from councils run by all political parties that they are currently struggling to provide - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) A party political autumn statement, purely focused on attempting to move the dial of the opinion polls - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Edwards (Ind - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Despite this major elephant in the room, we face an election in which no UK political party is willing - Speech Link
5: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) Last week, the political editor of the Liverpool Echo, Liam Thorp, wrote:“The images of the emaciated - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Educational Technology - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Con - Life peer) I mention my honorary position as a member of the political advisers panel of AI in Education. - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) I declare my interests at the outset: I, too, am a political adviser to AI in Education; I chair a multi-academy - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) questions of data processing or particular pros and cons of a single product is to misunderstand the socio-political - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) We must ensure that all young people are equipped with both literacy and numeracy skills as well as analytical - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) I remind the Committee that our focus on numeracy and literacy and a knowledge-rich curriculum has helped - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Apprenticeship Levy - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) held briefly, although I basically kept the seat warm for his return—on his hard work in improving literacy - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) Members have raised, but where I do not I will write to them.I have made it my political life’s mission - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) The curriculum offered to children in custody is needs-led and determined by individual aspirations, literacy - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) At the risk of harming her political career, the respect is entirely mutual. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) The Media Bill is an opportunity to legislate for new public service broadcasting purposes for media literacy - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) One could say that that is a standard political stance in this debate, and perhaps Conservative Members - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) decades gone by—50 or 60 years ago—there was largely indifference to the Gaelic language right across the political - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) I understand the political game of trying to draw attention to the mini-Budget, but she should know that - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) That is 100,000 families whose future is on hold because of Labour’s political games.On top of all the - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) Poor literacy skills make it harder for people to get good jobs, find and secure decent housing, and - Speech Link
4: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Prosperity for every corner of our country can happen only with political and economic stability. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Sometimes, it can be difficult to find issues on which figures from across the political spectrum are - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) One would have thought it was a clear priority for the Government to move the issue up the political - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) I was prepared to take the political flak. - Speech Link
4: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) England rise up international league tables for academic achievement, becoming the best in the west for literacy - Speech Link
5: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Abandoning those critical reforms shows a lack of political will at the heart of Government to tackle - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) A wise political party would cut and paste his speech and put it in its next election manifesto under - Speech Link
2: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This should not be a party-political issue. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Centre for Financial Capability has made the same points in its report this month on financial literacy - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Let us treat universities as a public good, not a political battlefield.Persistent absence, crumbling - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) allow for flexibility and choice for teachers and students.Of course, numeracy—and, indeed, financial literacy - Speech Link