All 5 Debates between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid

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Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid
Monday 30th October 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I listened carefully to what the hon. Lady said, and I have followed developments closely in Scotland. We are working closely with our Scottish colleagues to make sure that we can share information and knowledge on this very important issue. As to whether we would take similar steps in England, it is important that I leave the first-point decision making for the independent building regulations review.

Gavin Shuker Portrait Mr Gavin Shuker (Luton South) (Lab/Co-op)
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4. What recent estimate he has made of the number of children in temporary accommodation.

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Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid
Monday 24th April 2017

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Shuker Portrait Mr Gavin Shuker (Luton South) (Lab/Co-op)
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1. What assessment he has made of trends in the number of homeless people sleeping rough since 2010.

Sajid Javid Portrait The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Sajid Javid)
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One person sleeping on the streets is one too many, which is why we committed ourselves to spending more than £550 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in England. That includes supporting 84 projects through our £50 million homelessness prevention programme, an end-to-end approach to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping.

Gavin Shuker Portrait Mr Shuker
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Since joining the House in 2010, I have seen with my own eyes the incredible increase in the number of people sleeping rough on our streets. I have seen it in my constituency and in places that I have visited around the country, and, indeed, I see it on the doorsteps of Westminster itself when we arrive and leave for votes. Can the Secretary of State tell me what changed in 2010?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The hon. Gentleman may know that the number of statutory homelessness acceptances is below its peak—less than half its peak in 2003—but of course there is much more to be done, especially, as he pointed out, when it comes to rough sleeping. I have seen it as well: I have seen it throughout the country, and I have seen it here at Westminster. As he may also know, I said a great deal about this issue at the Crisis 50th anniversary conference. I said, for instance:

“Ending rough sleeping is within our gift. It is something we can do. It is something we must do. And, working together, it is something we are going to do.”

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Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid
Tuesday 15th December 2015

(8 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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In the short time that my hon. Friend has been a Member of Parliament, he has done a lot to champion small businesses in Worcestershire. I have seen that at first hand. The Worcestershire growth fund represents an excellent funding opportunity and I certainly join him in encouraging companies in his constituency and mine to apply.

Gavin Shuker Portrait Mr Gavin Shuker (Luton South) (Lab/Co-op)
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T2. The illegal money lending team has commenced 330 prosecutions against illegal loan sharks and had £63 million written off for the most vulnerable in our communities. The decision to cut a third of its £3.6 million budget may not have crossed the Secretary of State’s desk at the time, but he has had plenty of time to review the decision and it will have a big impact, so why does he continue to dodge questions about this short-sighted cut?

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Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid
Tuesday 10th September 2013

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The hon. Lady did a lot of good work with Citizens Advice before she came to this House, so I think she shares with me a genuine interest in child poverty. If that is the case, she will recognise that the existing measure for child poverty is flawed. It is based on relative incomes and it produces perverse results. For example, according to that measure, during the previous recession—Labour’s recession, the deepest in our post-war history—child poverty fell by 300,000. The hon. Lady knows that that cannot be right, so if she wants to work with me to help develop a measure that actually works, I would welcome that.

Gavin Shuker Portrait Gavin Shuker
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Despite the Minister’s divisive rhetoric about benefits, two thirds of all children living in poverty have one or more parents in work, not out of work. Does he not accept that his inaction on prices and wages is not just hammering those young people but hammering the rest of us as well?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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Work remains the best and the most immediate way out of poverty. The hon. Gentleman will be concerned that his constituency saw a 72% rise in unemployment during Labour’s last term in office. It has now fallen under this Government. He is rightly concerned about workless households, so he should welcome the fact that the number of children living in workless households is at an all-time low—the lowest since records began in 1996.

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Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sajid Javid
Tuesday 6th November 2012

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Sajid Javid)
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The UK labour market is showing some signs of recovery. There are more people in work now than ever before, and youth unemployment is at its lowest since 2011. The Youth Contract was launched in April to support up to 500,000 young people into employment, and the Work programme has been under way since 2011.

Gavin Shuker Portrait Gavin Shuker
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In my constituency, long-term youth unemployment is not up by 11% or 110%, but by 1,150%. Will the Government now apologise for their complacent decision to scrap the future jobs fund?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I think it is the hon. Gentleman who should be apologising. He is probably having a hard time explaining to his constituents why the number of young people on jobseeker’s allowance in the last five years of the previous Government went up by 45%. I have some good news for him, however. Under this Government, that number is down, and under this Government the number of vacancies in his local jobcentres is up by 30%.