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Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) market rents.There is a brutal form of social security policy in this country: no recourse to public funds - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It has created barriers to opportunity, and to much-needed extra funds, for working families, which is - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Instead of wealth being concentrated in the hands of a small number of people at the top, ownership is - Speech Link
4: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Batley and Spen) Leader of the Opposition said last week, we absolutely defend Israel’s right to protect itself as a sovereign - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) Tuesday 7 November by That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty as follows:“Most Gracious Sovereign—We - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) organised by criminal gangs, with potentially trafficked people transported across major cities to beg and funds - Speech Link
3: Lord Burnett of Maldon (XB - Life peer) They include that everybody is subject to the same laws: wealth, power, status or privilege provide no - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) leader of the opposition, when standing for that post, made a pledge for:“Radical devolution of power, wealth - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) for Wales has proposed devolving the Crown estate and reinvesting profits in communities through a sovereign - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) We have done so through the levelling-up funds. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Net Zero (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) environmental causes in the UK as well as, through its endowment, an investor in sustainable energy funds—and - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) The report rightly explains that most of the funds for the great energy transition ahead will have to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Water and Sewage Regulation (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Cromwell (CB - Excepted Hereditary) A crucial question therefore is how to raise the necessary investment funds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) Ofwat says that 14 of the 17 water companies have not spent the funds they have been granted to invest - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) but argued that the inquiry was primarily focused on Ofwat, which, as I said earlier, has had extra funds - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) I welcome the investment of organisations like international sovereign wealth funds and others. - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) I think it has been wonderful to see pension funds invest—perhaps those paying the pensions of those - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nuclear Energy - Thu 07 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) That is the key advantage and the sort of advantage that would bring in pension funds and sovereign wealth - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) expected to begin in 2023, with a final investment decision due in 2024.As I understand it, UK pension funds - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) The answer is that there is masses of money around the world, in the pension funds and the sovereign - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Land Use in England Committee Report - Tue 25 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The thing that struck me was that feudal barons owed clear and defined duties to their sovereign, arising - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and so on, so that is deliberately missing the point, because much of the wealth - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) private finance—currently widely described in some quarters as a “wild west”—as well as philanthropic funds - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Ravensdale (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Anyone who has read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and his description of the pin factory sees the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Primarolo (LAB - Life peer) The predictions of technologically driven wealth creation are hailed as a route to greater leisure and - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (LAB - Life peer) The UK has to maintain investment in areas such as cybersecurity and R&D towards our own sovereign - Speech Link
4: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, which has an endowment with investments in US and other VC funds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illicit Finance: War in Ukraine - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) action in support of Ukraine, until the Russian armed forces have been expelled from all Ukrainian sovereign - Speech Link
2: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) action in support of Ukraine, until the Russian armed forces have been expelled from all Ukrainian sovereign - Speech Link
3: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) The initial flurry of activity and enthusiasm to track down the wealth of sanctioned Russian elites has - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) remarks, so now I will not need to repeat it.Spotlight on Corruption highlights that the Bill“only funds - Speech Link
5: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) through the legislation last week, we have enabled one further step in ensuring that we stop any of the funds - Speech Link


General Committees
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Mon 10 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Building on the commitment by G7 leaders in May that sovereign assets will remain immobilised until - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) is still working with other international partners on whether we can go further and use some of the funds - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) The US has introduced bipartisan legislation that will give the Executive the power to seize Russian sovereign - Speech Link