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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Sep 2022
Health and Social Care Update

"For some years now, and at any given time, my local hospital has had the equivalent of around one ward of patients who cannot be discharged because of a lack of social care for them. London has the largest shortfall of care workers of any region in the country. It …..."
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Written Question
Universal Credit
Wednesday 27th July 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date the findings of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit's research into the experiences of potentially vulnerable people in receipt of Universal Credit was first presented to (a) the then Prime Minister, Rt Hon Theresa May MP and (b) the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Amber Rudd.

Answered by Johnny Mercer

We do not hold centrally those who were in receipt of the report (dated three years ago) but details about the report are available as a Deposited Paper in the Libraries of the House (Ref: Dep2021-0836 Paper No. 7a).

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Functioning of Government

"The Government are telling us not to worry about whether a Government elected with a majority of 80 two years ago can carry on functioning because we have the civil service, but levelling up is a Government priority. The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill is before the House of Commons at …..."
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Written Question
Universal Credit
Thursday 26th May 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 27 April 2022 to Question 156354 on Universal Credit: Vulnerable Adults, for what reason he has provided a link to the membership of the Universal Credit Programme Board; and if he will publish the full circulation list.

Answered by Michael Ellis

We would not centrally hold a list of all the civil servants who would have been in receipt of the report, three years ago. We have already deposited the Universal Credit Programme Board documentation which lists the senior officials in attendance at such meetings.

Written Question
Universal Credit: Vulnerable Adults
Wednesday 27th April 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) ministers and (b) officials were on the circulation list for the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit report in 2019 on the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Information about the report is available as a Deposited Paper in the Libraries of the House (Ref: Dep2021-0836 Paper No. 7a)

Written Question
Universal Credit: Vulnerable Adults
Wednesday 27th April 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit commissioned research into the experiences of vulnerable people claiming Universal Credit.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Information about the report is available as a Deposited Paper in the Libraries of the House (Ref: Dep2021-0836 Paper No. 7a)

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Mar 2022
Legal Aid

"The Government cannot swerve responsibility for having made the largest cuts that have ever been made to the legal aid budget, which have brought civil and criminal providers to their knees. The whole service is held together by good will. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on legal aid, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Human Rights Legislation

"Leading human rights lawyer and expert, and former adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Adam Wagner, said of these proposals this morning that this Government may be the first in the history of liberal democracies to enact a Bill of Rights that has the effect of reducing rather …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Nov 2021
COP26

"The Glasgow climate pact included a request that countries return next year with stronger targets for 2030, yet within hours the Australian Government had issued a statement saying that they were not intending to strengthen their target. What will the Government do over the remainder of the COP presidency to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"Two and a half years ago, practitioners were promised that the criminal legal aid review would be published in summer 2020. We are still waiting. The all-party parliamentary group on legal aid conducted an inquiry into the sustainability of legal aid, and the report was published last month. We heard …..."
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