Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024

My Lords, I rise to speak to the Motion standing in my name, the third of the Motions on the Orde...

My Lords, these regulations are a mistake and I want my concern on the record. I want to make it ...

My Lords, there seems to be rather a hurry to embrace economic rationality on the part of the new...

My Lords, I do not believe that this was in the 1997 manifesto of the Labour Party. It was introd...

My Lords, I grew up in Barnsley in Yorkshire, which is a Labour stronghold, and I find it inconce...

My Lords, as other noble Lords have said, there is a sense of bewilderment for so many people at ...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the Minister on her appointment and I declare an interest as a ben...

My Lords, I entirely understand why the Government want to get rid of a fuel payment to many peop...

My Lords, I commend my erstwhile noble friend the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, on her powerful o...

Absolutely. She will always be my noble friend.

I also urge the Prime Minister to drop his misplaced belief that he and his Government are someho...

My Lords, the decision by the Government to remove the winter fuel payment for millions of pensio...

My Lords, there have been some very fine speeches, but I will not repeat them. I really hope that...

My Lords, I speak in broad support of the regret Motion in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Palme...

My Lords, I have listened to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and my noble friend Lady Stedman-S...

I, and I think many colleagues in the House, were surprised when this measure was selected to sav...

My Lords, I have a few brief comments in relation to what is before the House. As far as my party...

My Lords, I will not detain the House for long, but I want to just say one thing. I may be the on...

My Lords, that seems a good place to start. I start by

than...

My Lords, I too welcome the noble Baroness to her position on the Front Bench. She brings huge ex...