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Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) those comfortably off, you might take equity release to give the youngsters their deposit or raid your retirement - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) No wonder the Department for Work and Pensions is expressing alarm at the prospect of a massive increase - Speech Link
3: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) Claremont, costing £11 million a year.At this point, I would like to call out the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) I am quite content with the views of the Secretary of State on that matter. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) billion Levelling Up Home Building Fund leverages institutional investment from both private capital and pensions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) The day after the Budget, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions implied that he did not feel the - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) In fact, around 94% of the national insurance fund is spent directly on funding retirement pensions. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We have announced increasing funding to the NHS and we are uprating state pensions by 8.5% this year, - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) It is quite hard to recruit members to scrutiny, audit and, sometimes, pensions committees, principally - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) However, notwithstanding the Minister’s comments about councillor pensions—and I accept the strong argument - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) local government.Devo deals per se fall under the ministerial responsibility of the Under-Secretary of State - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) The Pensions Regulator is expert in regulating, but more than that, it recruits investment consultants - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) Later in the summer, the Pensions Regulator will consult on the covenant guidance. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) will be taking her well-deserved retirement. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) insurance going to be paid for by cuts to state pensions or cuts to the NHS? - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about pensions. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) As a former Pensions Minister, I know the impact that such modernisation has had on the state pension - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) We need a more productive state, not a bigger state.” - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) proposal as a “gimmick” and a “dangerous distraction ”, likely to“lead to higher charges and lower retirement - Speech Link
4: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) whose contribution I greatly enjoyed—like many in the Chamber, I will miss him, and I wish him a happy retirement—I - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
State Pension Changes: Women - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Pensions Acts of 1995 and 2011. - Speech Link
2: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) pension age by the Pensions Act 1995. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Any talk of raising the retirement age further must stop because, we know that raising the retirement - Speech Link
4: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) or sole breadwinner, with women expected to rely on their husbands’ pensions for an income in retirement - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) We are in the most extraordinary state with this. I find it really depressing. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Lower state pension. Unpaid carers. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) exclusion of women.Broadly speaking, women receive lower state pensions than men, and, when it comes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) Has the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions seen the chart on page 29 of the Office for Budget Responsibility - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) In spite of all the rhetoric, we still have one of the meanest state pensions in western Europe. - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) There is a pattern emerging.I asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about this earlier, - Speech Link
4: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) him with retrospective demands and a possible bill of £50,000—we can imagine how he is enjoying his retirement - Speech Link
5: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) I welcome all that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whom I met this week, is doing to get - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: John Stevenson (Con - Carlisle) It is not all about work; pensions will rise by around 8%. - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham) promotion and to working longer hours, and it is a reason why many more people are choosing to take early retirement - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) insurance rates being reduced, but in future we must consider particularly those who have saved for a small retirement - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) still saving for their pensions over the long term. - Speech Link