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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2016
Disability Employment Gap

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2016
Disability Employment Gap

"The shadow Secretary of State mentioned experts and then descended into partisanship, so I thought I might try to bring him back to the experts. He has not yet mentioned the Sayce report, so what are his views on that? It discussed many aspects of employment support for disabled people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2016
Disability Employment Gap

"The Secretary of State is generous in giving way. On Access to Work and the fact that we are increasing spending on it, that increased spending will be of little value if it remains, as Liz Sayce said, the “best kept secret” in the DWP. How can we ensure that …..."
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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Research
Wednesday 2nd December 2015

Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of his Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

Spending Review 2015 set out settlements for departments and showed how the government will deliver on its priorities, eliminate the deficit, and deliver security and opportunity for working people.


Final decisions on internal departmental funding allocations for future years, including for research and development, have not yet been made.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6. I welcome the Minister’s commitment to introducing a yellow card system for sanctions, but does he agree that we also need to ensure that claimants with mental health problems are placed in the right group in the first place? Will he reaffirm the commitment that I received from his …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Mar 2015
AEA Technology Pension Scheme

"The AEA Technology staff are nuclear physicists accustomed to identifying risk and weighing cost-benefit. If they could not identify risk within the GAD advice, who could have?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Mar 2014
Inherited Social Housing Tenancies

"I was surprised to read today in my local paper, The Oxford Times, that Oxford city council has spent only two thirds of its discretionary housing funds for 2013-14, leaving £200,000 meant for the most vulnerable unspent. May I therefore ask for the Minister’s guidance on how this fund …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2013
State Pension Reform

"I welcome this statement, as the problems of complexity and inequality that have been identified are all too familiar to my constituents, and they have without doubt undermined this country’s savings culture. Will the Minister explain, however, how the new proposals would affect carers in my constituency? Can he guarantee …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2012
Universal Credit and Welfare Reform

"I agree with my hon. Friend’s point about the need to trust people as well as the need to move towards monthly payments and increase people’s capacity to go back into the workplace. I understand that the DWP is considering which individuals might need exemptions and support for certain aspects …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2011
Pensioners and Winter Fuel Payments

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