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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: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) There is also a gender issue: for females presenting as homeless it is even younger, at just 25. - 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
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) We need to do more to encourage females into apprenticeships and engineering and debunk the myth that - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) whom will have mortgage or family responsibilities, to be repaying their student loans well into their retirement - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) To be frank, the state has all but withdrawn from funding university education. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Women in Poverty - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) were more likely to work full time than females. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) and had their retirement plans thrown into chaos when the retirement age was raised with little or no - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) In this coming financial year, we are uprating all benefits and state pensions by 10.1%. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 17 May 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) It legally recognises British Sign Language and requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) Today, there are nearly 55,000 medical students, of which 21,000 are men and 33,500 are females. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blower (LAB - Life peer) may set standards by regulation, with one such area being salaries and pensions. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) The universities pension scheme is in dire financial difficulties, and swingeing cuts to retirement benefits - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Apsana Begum (LAB - Poplar and Limehouse) use the language of protecting women, their programme of austerity, real-terms cuts to benefits and pensions - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Bracher, a leading lawyer who specialises in complex child and family matters.Michaela Willis came out of retirement - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) I am sorry that the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. - Speech Link
4: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) Then there is the menopause, osteoporosis and the pensions gap, and then they might find themselves in - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) women, adult human females, girls, mothers, women who breastfeed and mothers who work. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
Report stage - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) Too often, Chancellors have eyed state pensions or pensioners as a tempting target to raid when they - Speech Link
2: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) But the state pension is the basis of the majority of pensioners’ income in retirement, and it is part - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) pension is £169.21 for males, £141.98 for females, and the overall mean is £155.08. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) for retirement provision for decades to come. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) For females, the gap is 7.7 years. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Ridley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) For those worried about pensions, it is a good thing that we just ain’t going to live to 150—not without - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) and there has been political resistance to the interference of what has been described as the “nanny state - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) someone is expected to live—so that you could, for example, advise them on how much they need to save for retirement—you - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) As has already been mentioned, universal credit has been cut, and the average state pension is only around - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safe Streets for All - Mon 17 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) I send my best wishes to his predecessor, Councillor Kay Cutts, on her retirement; she can look back - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) The Work and Pensions Committee report on the Department’s response to coronavirus recommended last June - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) The law requires them to ask the state to provide justice for them, and the state must not let them down - Speech Link
4: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) offences at Birmingham Crown court in 2017 was recorded as female, thus falsely elevating the number of females - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Fri 12 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) Instead, it maintains personal tax thresholds on income tax, inheritance tax, the pensions lifetime allowance - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) many part-time women are disadvantaged and deprived from not being able to enrol in auto-enrolment pensions - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) When tax rates get to a certain level, people will begin to work shorter hours, take earlier retirement - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) Provisional estimates show that the number of females furloughed increased to 2.3 million as at 31 January - Speech Link


Grand Committee
International Women’s Day - Thu 11 Mar 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) However, a far worse gap exists when we reach retirement. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (CON - Life peer) In 2011, 12% of FTSE 100 roles were held by females. - Speech Link
3: Lord Desai (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It is the injustice of the welfare state. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) to providing a financial safety net for those who need it, including when they are close to or reach retirement - Speech Link