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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 13 Oct 2020
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill

"My Lords, first, I welcome the two newly ennobled Peers to our proceedings in this Room and congratulate them in advance on their maiden speeches. This is a unique occasion for newly ennobled Members of the House to make their maiden speeches in these newly formed proceedings, but it will …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 30 Jun 2020
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I will not detain the House for very long. I draw attention to the interchange and interface between the insolvency legislation that has now passed into law, on which I spoke a short time ago, and this Bill. The reason for that is that we are at a …..."
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Written Question
Occupational Health
Monday 22nd June 2020

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish a White Paper in response to the Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss consultation,which closed on 7 October 2019; and what plans they have to include in any such White Paper proposals to reduce the costs of ill health and absence from work for (1) individuals, and (2) businesses. [T]

Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)

We plan to publish the response to the consultation ‘Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss’ later this year. The consultation set out proposals to encourage all employers to take positive action to support employees who are managing health conditions in work, and to manage sickness absence more effectively.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 May 2020
Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020

"My Lords, as my Braille watch does not have the facility of timing my speech down to the half minute, I shall be as brief as possible. I welcome these instruments, not least for the signal they send in terms of the continuing commitment to auto-enrolment. My noble friend Lady …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2016
Improving Lives: Green Paper

"My Lords, it would be unfair to use the old joke, “This is déjà vu all over again”, because this is a welcome initiative. I have just two quick points to make. The Minister knows a great deal about this. Perhaps he will accept that trashing the past rather than …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2016
Housing: Under-occupancy

"My Lords, the problem with the previous question is that the bedroom tax does not apply to the retired. It is actually the retired—well represented in your Lordships’ House—who have more accommodation available than younger people bringing up families, where their home should be their castle. Does the Minister concur …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Employment: Job Creation

"My Lords, will the Minister reflect on the paradox that if more people are being assessed more rigorously as being eligible and fit for work, even with disabilities—he and I agree on that—there is a certain irony in using the increase in the volume cost of the personal independence payment …..."
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Written Question
Research
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which reports commissioned by his Department from external bodies between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014 have not yet been published; when each such report was commissioned; what the nature of the research so commissioned was; from which individual or body each such report was commissioned; what the value was of each report so commissioned; on what date each such report was received by his Department; for what reasons the research has not yet been published; and when he plans to publish each such report.

Answered by Esther McVey

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Mar 2015
Amendment of the Law

"First, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) on not just an excellent speech, but the tremendous work he did in those difficult three years alongside the then Prime Minister. When the world gathered in April 2009, applauding the then Prime Minister and …..."
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Written Question
Employment Schemes: Young People
Tuesday 17th March 2015

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of funding allocated to the Youth Contract programme for 2014-15 has been disbursed to date; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Esther McVey

Total figures for the final year are still being finalised.