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Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) Others told me that they were considering dropping out of degrees to fund full-time employment to meet - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) She is on a self-employed income, which is not treated the same as a pay-as-you-earn income. - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) so many exceptions and different rules applying to different people, that if we are going to have a scheme - Speech Link
4: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) The first is to have the ability to combine self-employed income and savings to meet the financial threshold - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) required to support family in the UK. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) can achieve their educational potential; and individuals to charge their phones in order to access employment - Speech Link
2: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) It can encourage them to self-ration energy, leading to cold or damp homes, or cause households to cut - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) , say, the charitable foundation sector to try to obtain funding and is told, “You’ve gone over the income - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) There is also the support for the migrant victim scheme, which provides wraparound support, including - Speech Link
3: None question—that this provision does not conflict with the very important whistleblowing legislation in the Employment - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This concern emerged very explicitly from the pilot scheme run in the north of England. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The truth is that the practices of criminal justice agencies recording self-declared sex as actual sex - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill
2nd reading - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) It is not that that income is not distributed from the Premier League—it is. - Speech Link
2: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) when it comes to English football, but some top-flight clubs have shown that they are incapable of self-regulation - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) most players are not on anything like that kind of money and can be in very precarious and short-lived employment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) Laws exist that provide the framework for support for carers in employment, but all too often we see - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) I also ask the Minister to say what the Government are doing to ensure that all carers in paid employment - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We should also explore things such as the minimum income guarantee and universal basic income. - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) I believe that MPs and MSPs should do all we can to promote that excellent scheme, which helps employers - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In a way, it is self-defeating. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) That scheme dissipated as it became unworkable. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) The system currently relies on self-verification for many factors, and that is one of the issues. - Speech Link
4: None The relevant benefits are: attendance allowance, DLA, income support universal credit, housing benefit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) By 2030 … this could grow to £1.3 billion in direct GDP contributions with the direct employment of almost - Speech Link
2: Earl of Shrewsbury (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government and Defra should support its findings and take immediate action to support them in full - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Rolling out a scheme before reviewing the pilot is unhelpful. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Retailers and government should not rely on imports, however, to plug our self-sufficiency gap to feed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Part of my concern about this law is that there will be a great deal of employment for my learned friends - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I also support the other amendments in this group. I listened carefully to the previous debate. - Speech Link
3: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) to the Committee that if we do not tighten up these definitions, we run a series of risks that are self-defeating - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) associated with the public body, so it is possible, within the bounds of trusts law, for those pension scheme - Speech Link
5: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) have been destroyed since 1967, yet Palestinians depend on these trees as a primary source of food and income - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) autumn reductions, mean 27 million employees will get an average tax cut of £900 a year and 2 million self-employed - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We always listen to the important farming community in this country, who do so much to create employment - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Many who will be looking to fill in their self-assessment forms will be surprised that they cannot download - Speech Link
4: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) we could do it on a regional basis, looking at which have the lowest occupancy rates and the lowest employment - Speech Link
5: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) or launch a proper home insulation scheme. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) helping to fill skills gaps in the food redistribution sector and the wider food chain and creating more employment - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) My organisation has wraparound services to support people into better paid employment and healthier lifestyles - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) their food, but households with higher budgets need the same lessons, because this is not a tale of income - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Food Foundation has found that the poorest 20% in society would need to spend half their disposable income - Speech Link