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Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) High housing costs both cause and worsen poverty. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I come to the issue from my long-standing concern about poverty. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) It can also help reduce fuel poverty by reducing energy demand, and therefore landlords—good for them—can - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 15 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) It is inhumane, it is cruel, and it is forcing some of the most vulnerable people into poverty and hardship.I - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) I also want to highlight the recent joint report from the all-party groups on poverty and on migration - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Tue 14 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) violence, abuse”.She goes on to say that the high incidence of abuse reflects the gender inequality and poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Substandard Housing - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) national average is 7.8%; in Rochdale, it is 11.7%.We have 35.8% of our people officially living in fuel poverty - Speech Link
2: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) literally sometime soon in my constituency, and to see the way that thousands of people are living in poverty—fuel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) What recent estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in poverty. - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) But 2 million pensioners are in poverty. - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) When will they take pensioner poverty seriously and fix this scandal? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) The botching of the transition is causing heartache, pain and poverty in my community. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft International Monetary Fund (Increase in Subscription) Order 2024 - Mon 13 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) ensuring global economic stability, facilitating long-term economic growth and prosperity, and supporting poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) The roots of this can be found in weak governance, poverty, discrimination and so on—things with which - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Hornsey (XB - Life peer) Think of the burden on those families and on people who live in poverty, because they have no choice - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) We are home to hundreds of small businesses, and we have been instrumental in the fight against poverty - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) He spoke and wrote about “The Price Wales Pays for Poverty”: maternal mortality, malnutrition, overcrowding - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) with us.After that social fabric was taken out of County Durham, we had unemployment, deprivation and poverty - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) As a result, she grew up in absolute poverty. - Speech Link