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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Stunell (LD - Life peer) The idea that it is not appropriate, timely or sensible to tackle that seems strange in the extreme and - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The Government’s poverty of ambition has real implications for leaseholders being routinely gouged by - Speech Link

Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: safety net for most Lebanese, which means that more than half of Lebanese households are now in poverty

Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: safety net for most Lebanese, which means that more than half of Lebanese households are now in poverty

Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) measured”.Given all that, surely discretion is the greater part of valour, and we must proceed with extreme - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) emergency programme to insulate all British homes by 2030, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience
Document: The Khan Review (PDF)

Found: ‘Two Nations – The State of Poverty in the UK. An interim report on the state of the nation’.

National Audit Office
International - Mar. 25 2024
Report - Progress with the merger of the FCO and DFID (PDF)

Found: DFID led the UK’s work to end extreme poverty, while FCO’s objectives were to protect British people

Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Children and Families Directorate
Early Learning and Childcare Directorate
Education Reform Directorate
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Health and Social Care Finance, Digital and Governance Directorate
Justice Directorate
Mental Health Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Ukraine Resettlement Directorate

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Document: Initial Response to the UN Committee’s Closing Observations (PDF)

Found: providing Scotland’s children with the same legal protection from assault as adults ; • Tackle child poverty

Lords Chamber
Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None assess how long it would be before that cost could be recouped from future profits generated by the poverty - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) We understand that, in extreme cases, sometimes the only way to continue operating is to consult with - Speech Link

Written Question
Poverty: Children
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) Unicef and (b) the United Nations Rapporteur on extreme poverty on initiatives to tackle child poverty.

Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

DWP officials engage with a wide range of stakeholders including UNICEF.

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Consumer Council for Water

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Consumer Council for Water annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
Document: Consumer Council for Water annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: The key campaigns we focused on were : • End Water Poverty • Don’t let people suffer in silence