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Grand Committee
Social Security (Contributions) (Limits and Thresholds, National Insurance Funds Payments and Extension of Veterans Relief) Regulations 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) They allow people to make contributions when they are in work and to receive contributory benefits when - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) working tax credit and child tax credit and the weekly rates of child benefit and guardian’s allowance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) people into work, particularly full-time work, to reduce the risk of poverty. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) for work or who are unable to work by linking the increase in the rates of universal credit to the increase - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) In moving these regulations in the Commons, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Work and Pensions said - Speech Link
3: None Since 6 April 2017, families can claim support as universal credit and child tax credit for up to two - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Maintenance Service - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) receives just 96% of what they would have under direct pay.The Department for Work and Pensions reported - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) There are also challenges with universal credit when not everyone is not working, and there may be different - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the Department for Work and Pensions to impose tougher sanctions on non-paying parents such as forcing - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) moved from the Department for Work and Pensions in 2017, we are now on our fifth Minister with responsibility - Speech Link
5: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Member for East Ham, and other members of the Work and Pensions Committee and of the Public Accounts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) As of July 2023, 6.1 million people were claiming universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) This has implications for the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) These are: to boost incomes and reduce costs by ending the poverty premium; to reboot universal credit - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) There is no specifically identified line of universal credit for your childcare and, if you increase - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) for Work and Pensions and ignored the broader economic issues of an ageing population. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) It then became the national employment panel in the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to the theme of childminders and universal credit, my noble friend Lord Willetts and the noble Baroness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) one or both products as part of its universal credit package. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , including the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s work with libraries, the Department for Work - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is administered by the Department for Work and Pensions through the flexible support fund. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) to give credit where credit is due, and that credit goes to a small collection of Secretaries of State - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Friend agree that had any of our constituents been face to face with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) The Tories are absolutely clear that people can live on universal credit, despite all evidence to the - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Work and Pensions when benefits overpayments were made and they had to pay them back, will expect him - Speech Link
5: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Make no mistake: ordinary citizens owing money to HMRC or the Department for Work and Pensions would - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) and support allowance and universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) Friend outline the work that the Department for Work and Pensions is doing to ensure that local people - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) The way that universal credit works means that work coaches can use their flexibility, but if a payment - Speech Link
4: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) universal credit and qualify at precisely that point. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Redwood (Con - Wokingham) The Government are working on some important programmes, through the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We must remove barriers to work and incentives to not work, and most of all, must ensure that hard work - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) We heard many questions in today’s Department for Work and Pensions orals about what we can do to get - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) I thank the legislative team of the Department for Work and Pensions and my staff for their help preparing - Speech Link
2: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) The Department for Work and Pensions used that definition for calculating benefits, but in the Social - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) support for the Department for Work and Pensions to adopt a 12-month end of life approach that would - Speech Link
4: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) support available from the Department for Work and Pensions for people nearing the end of their lives - Speech Link