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Commons Chamber
SEND Provision and Funding - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) in work, and so that the children of today are not the problem of the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradley (Con - Mansfield) , and for us to work with schools and SENCOs to deliver it. - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) the Department is continuing to work with local authorities with the highest dedicated schools grant - Speech Link
4: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) many years we have recognised the importance of universal education for all children and young adults - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System - Tue 09 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) When I moved to the Department for Work and Pensions in October 2022, the Labour party had no credible - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We have also provided an up-front credit to pay for start-up costs in advance of flights.Although we - Speech Link
3: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) The Treasury, the Education Department and the Home Office will have different views. - Speech Link
4: Tahir Ali (Lab - Birmingham, Hall Green) the universal obligations under which we in the UK are bound to assist those seeking safety and security - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Their innovative ideas and compassion in working with refugees and asylum seekers are a credit to them.We - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We know that, over this last year, overpayments to capital fraud and error in universal credit alone - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) get government contracts.Currently, the Department for Work and Pensions can request details of bank - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) It says:“These Department for Work and Pensions proposals have been suggested previously, but they are - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) These include state pensions and universal credit, but they also include other benefits—working tax credit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Refugees: Notice Period for Home Office Accommodation - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of London (Bshp - Bishops) should be extended to 56 days to allow universal credit and housing benefit to come through. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) for Work and Pensions and DLUHC on ensuring that individuals can move on as smoothly as possible. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We work closely with DLUHC and regularly engage with the local authorities to ensure that they are supported - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) You can start to apply for things like universal credit before you receive the biometric residence permit - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord makes an interesting point, and I will take that back to the department. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Friend to her new expanded role in the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Universal credit was introduced and further rolled out because it is a welfare system that makes work - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) The Department for Work and Pensions continues to support individuals into employment through back to - Speech Link
4: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) 50%, which the Work and Pensions Committee pushed for. - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) The youth hubs we have at the Department for Work and Pensions, which are focused on the under-25s, zero - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Gentleman for this work on the Backbench Business Committee and for his question. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) All credit goes to the RAF, for some of the pioneering work it has done, and to the Virgin-led coalition - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) It was agreed in June between No. 10, the Treasury, the Department for Education and Birchwood Community - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) country for the work that that they do. - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) credit £450 on average and pensioners £900 extra. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) As a result, those will be eligible for a 5% uplift to a 39% credit rate. - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) When I was at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, we raised those issues again and - Speech Link
3: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) We have made huge strides on simplifying it for people on universal credit, making every extra hour of - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) The changes in policy—particularly universal credit and really good childcare offers—have transformed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Broadband: Rural Communities - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I have sent numerous emails to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) The council had the information on who qualifies for universal credit and who therefore qualifies for - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) we are working particularly with colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions to try to draw attention - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) to social tariffs in any letter to anyone in receipt of universal credit or any other benefits. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Refugees: Homelessness - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are engaging with the Department for Work and Pensions and DLUHC on ensuring individuals can move - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The Government work closely with police forces and other agencies to ensure that sort of thing does not - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) credit and housing benefit applications can be dealt with. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) I will take that up with DWP colleagues, as it sounds very much like it is for their department. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) ”should be a priority for every government department, and it suggests a“Cabinet level Minister holding - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) I cannot take any credit for the report itself, but I am delighted to be involved in that work. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) On inception, the policy had two clear intentions: first, to make universal credit fairer and more affordable - Speech Link