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Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Low Income and Debt (Report) - Tue 01 Nov 2022

Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) We have now committed to additional funding to mitigate the benefit cap as far as we are able for up - Speech Link
2: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) fair public sector pay uplifts and support public services, given the fiscal constraints on devolution.I - Speech Link
3: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) You need to wind up now, Ms Duncan-Glancy. - Speech Link
4: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) What impact are policies such as the two-child cap, the benefit cap, the five-week wait and the lower - Speech Link
5: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) We need a realistic fiscal framework to be renegotiated; right now, within the devolved set-up, the UK - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Programme for Government (Cost of Living) - Wed 07 Sep 2022

Mentions:
1: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) rise in the energy price to be scrapped; a support scheme to help businesses deal with the rise in energy - Speech Link
2: Grahame, Christine (SNP - Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) The public sector pay increases were budgeted for when inflation was at 3 per cent, but it is now at - Speech Link
3: Bibby, Neil (Lab - West Scotland) With rising fuel prices and rising bus and rail fares this year, we need meaningful action now to reduce - Speech Link
4: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) I am fed up mitigating the bedroom tax, welfare reform, the two-child cap and the rape clause. - Speech Link
5: Ruskell, Mark (Green - Mid Scotland and Fife) fail, and nationalisation in the public interest must now be on the table. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) I pay tribute to the then Foreign Secretary, now the Prime Minister, who, within hours, took a call, - Speech Link
2: John Cryer (LAB - Leyton and Wanstead) praising it, and now the plan is to break up that centre. - Speech Link
3: Robert Largan (CON - High Peak) As a result, the energy price cap is due to rise 65% in October, taking typical bills to around £3,240 - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) It is no fault of the civil servants; there is a failure to cope and plan, and a lack of resources. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Living: Support for Farmers - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) spikes and is not protected by the price cap of the electricity market. - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) It would rather see the machinery and plant equipment sold for scrap than lose its monopoly position - Speech Link
3: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) of the Labour party might explain why—but we now need a new Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and - Speech Link
4: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) We are all seeing her meteoric rise up the ranks of the Conservative parliamentary party, and I will - Speech Link
5: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) public goods for which we are very keen to continue to pay them. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Social Care Charges - Wed 22 Jun 2022

Mentions:
1: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) Scrap non-residential care charges now. - Speech Link
2: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) of local authorities, and calls on the Scottish Government to scrap these plans and introduce a local - Speech Link
3: Roddick, Emma (SNP - Highlands and Islands) a public service since the NHS was introduced. - Speech Link
4: Hoy, Craig (Con - South Scotland) care service, and that it will involve 700 new civil servants and hundreds of managers at a time when - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) A total of £220 million has been spent in the seven weeks since the energy price cap went up. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) the £200 heat now, pay later loan into a grant. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) First, we would scrap the national insurance rise. - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) telling workers to work more or to get another job and do not offer a decent pay rise. - Speech Link
5: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) A cap on business rates of 10% of a company’s declared turnover would help start-up companies and a lot - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases - Tue 17 May 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) a pay rise of £1,000, and we will go further. - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) , why does he not act and scrap the cap? - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) It is now 25% and it will be 50%—just on energy—when the cap goes up again in October. - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) It would give millions of workers a real pay rise, making the minimum wage a genuine living wage, and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 16 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) is critical to take power away from Parliament now and give it to the Executive while we can”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) public sector, it will give a further crank to inflation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) an immediate real cut by 3% or 4% up to that date, which is expected to rise to at least a 7% cut later - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) cap, which I understand could go up to £2,800 by October this year, with a further increase in January - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice - Wed 11 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) so that we can identify problems, drive up standards, and give the public confidence. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) to pay the costs of converting all the properties up and down the country.We could have seen a cap on - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) 4 and scrap the BBC licence fee were a “travesty”. - Speech Link
4: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) up and a recession now looming.What are we supposed to say to our children and young people? - Speech Link
5: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) The past two years have been immensely challenging, but thanks to the efforts of public servants across - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) , public engagement on these issues, and mitigation of the damage caused by extreme weather now and in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Prosser (LAB - Life peer) to pay a high price must therefore put up with a second-rate service, never mind the effect that this - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) and to give us a better economy and a better country. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Oxton (CON - Life peer) first- class customer service we pay for and should now be experiencing again.The travel and tourism - Speech Link
5: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Costs go up for landlords as well as tenants, and rents should at least be able to rise over time in - Speech Link