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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Peterborough
Friday 4th November 2016

Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Peterborough constituency are subject to the most recent changes in the welfare benefit cap; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

It is estimated that around 200 households in Peterborough constituency will be affected by the lower benefit cap in 2016/17.

Notes:
1. Estimates assume no behavioural responses - any behavioural responses to the lower cap, such as claimants moving into employment, would cause the number of households affected to reduce

2. This figure is rounded to the nearest 100 households
3. The methodology used to estimate the households affected by the cap is consistent with that described in the latest impact assessment published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap

The benefit cap will be lowered from 7th November from £26,000 to £20,000, except in London where it will be lowered to £23,000. To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable Housing Benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to our welfare reforms, the Government will provide £870m funding for Discretionary Housing Payments over the next 5 years. Information about this and other measures to ease the transition for families affected by this policy change is included in the latest impact assessment at the link above.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2016
Welfare

"I welcome my right hon. Friend to his new position. He is a good man, and I think he will do a great job. He will of course know that the Conservative party has a proud heritage of welfare reform in areas such as public health and social housing. If …..."
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Written Question
Welfare State: Peterborough
Wednesday 3rd February 2016

Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department is making in reducing welfare dependency and increasing wages in Peterborough; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The government is making good progress in moving to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare economy. In Peterborough the number of people claiming one of the main out-of-work benefits has fallen by over 3,400 (21%) since 2010. Average gross weekly earnings in Peterborough have risen by 12% since 2010, to £487 per week.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"Surely the right hon. Gentleman concedes that this is not a back-of-a-fag-packet policy and that the Government are doing a sensible thing by collating all the information and demonstrable data as part of a proper scoping exercise on assisted housing, with an impact assessment. They have also put aside nearly …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"Is not the difference between the two sides of the House the fact that we on the Government side have got 339,000 disabled people into work and off benefits, whereas in 2010 the Labour party, to its eternal shame, presided over a situation in which 70% of people on disability …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"I want to put on the record my support for the one-year moratorium that has been announced, which demonstrates that being in government is about listening to a wide-ranging debate and taking on board the views of the key stakeholders. It is very welcome. Government is about matching policy principles, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"No, I will not.

The question has to be, where is the Labour party’s policy? Where is the coherence? Where is the comprehensive costing? Where is the alternative? It is not there. And this from the party that voted against every single welfare change that we made in the last …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"Exactly; that is a fairness issue. How can it be fair that working families effectively give a direct payment to other people in social housing, who are often not working? That cannot be fair. We have to deal with the issue of welfare dependency...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"No, I will not.

As my hon. Friend the Member for Solihull (Julian Knight) said, these are difficult decisions. In the short term, they will deliver £240 million in savings. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that in the long term, they will save £1.1 billion. We have to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Housing Benefit and Supported Housing

"I agree with my hon. Friend.

There will be an impact assessment and an evidence-based review of the whole assisted and supported housing regime. We do not know what the final decision will be, but it is for local housing associations to stop complaining and to work with planners, developers …..."
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