Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019
"My Lords, the Minister is speaking with great passion and conviction about her commitment to get people back into work. Is it not also incumbent on us all, irrespective of party, to keep constantly under review exactly what some of this work amounts to? It is hardly surprising that there …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 3rd April 2017
Asked by:
Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the Green Paper consultation <i>Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability</i>, what assessment they have made of the ability to work of some disabled people with complex needs; and what measures they are taking to support those people.
Answered by Lord Henley
We are committed to understanding what works for people in the ESA Support Group, many of whom have complex needs, and announced in the Green Paper that we will undertake comprehensive research and develop a large scale trial to test and learn from different approaches of offering employment support to people in this group taking into consideration views and ideas gathered through the consultation, which closed on 17th February.
In the Green Paper, we also announced the details of the Personal Support Package. This package includes a broad spectrum of employment support, with specific provision made for the hardest to help Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (and Universal Credit equivalents). This comprises:
- More places on the Specialist Employability Support (SES) programme; and
- Trialling and testing new forms of employment support to continue to build our evidence base for the hardest to help, including:
- Testing a jobcentre-led alternative to the SES programme;
- Testing locally delivered Supported Employment; and
- Testing the use of Supported Work Experience for young people.
Written Question
Wednesday 29th March 2017
Asked by:
Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of increasing work-related benefits on the level of other benefits which severely disabled people would be entitled to claim.
Answered by Lord Henley
Increases in the level of Employment and Support Allowance payments – the main income-replacement benefit for disabled people and people who have a health condition – will have no impact on the levels of disability benefits such as Personal independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance, because these benefits are not means-tested.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Oct 2013
Syria
"My Lords, I declare an interest as a former director of Oxfam. I warmly thank the right reverend Prelate for giving the House a further opportunity to review the huge humanitarian challenge that faces us. I also pay tribute—and am sure that other noble Lords would like to do so—to …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Oct 2013
Millennium Development Goals
"I declare an interest as the former director of Oxfam and VSO, and also currently as a trustee of Saverworld. Congratulations are due to the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, on having secured the debate and on her highly effective speech in introducing it. She established the need for a major …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 11 Jan 2013
Leveson Inquiry
"My Lords, I believe that perspective is essential in our considerations of this matter. It is essential that we pay a warm tribute to many fine and courageous journalists and to excellent parts of the media, who provide invaluable service to society even when we at times get very upset …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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