"My Lords, the noble Lord gave an assurance that the DWP will not replace the £4.4 billion of savings from the PIP programme, which it is now going to abandon, with cuts elsewhere in the DWP budget. However, he has not answered the obvious and important question of how those …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
"I was hoping to catch my noble friend before he sat down, which I thought he was about to do.
I am very grateful to my noble friend, and I think the whole House will probably be very grateful to both him and the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, for raising …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
"The Minister has moved on rather rapidly. He brushed past the quite important issue of a monopoly without going into it. What seems to arise from this situation is that we have here a government department—the Department for Work and Pensions—which has given a contract on a monopoly basis to …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
"My Lords, you do not need to wait to watch the market to believe that transparency is absolutely essential in any honest financial business. Why cannot the Government decide that there should be complete transparency of charges from the beginning? Should they not have decided that at the outset, when …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
"My Lords, it is obviously very important to do everything that we possibly can to help young people into work for the first time or back into work from unemployment...." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
But what the Minister describes as a scarring effect can affect people at any age if they spend too long outside the workforce and cannot get back into a job. I have asked the Minister questions about this before and he …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech
"My Lords, there is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence, certainly in Lincolnshire and I suspect elsewhere, that it is disproportionately difficult for older people in their 50s and early 60s to get jobs through the jobcentre system. In the event that there is evidence of age discrimination against applicants, …..." Lord Davies of Stamford - View Speech