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Written Question
Housing Benefit: EU Nationals
Thursday 21st April 2016

Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member states who receive housing benefit and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.

Written Question
Universal Credit: EU Nationals
Thursday 21st April 2016

Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member-states who receive universal credit and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.

Written Question
Work Programme: EU Nationals
Thursday 21st April 2016

Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member states who receive support through the Work Programme and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.

Written Question
European Social Fund
Thursday 21st April 2016

Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of administering European Social Funds in each of the (a) last and (b) next five years.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

The Department cannot separate out the costs of administering the functions for the European Social Fund (ESF) programme.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the latest low-income statistics show that the percentage of individuals and children in relatively low-income circumstances is at its lowest level since the 1980s?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Mar 2016
State Pension Age

"Will my right hon. Friend confirm that countries around the globe are being forced to confront the impact of rapidly rising life expectancy levels, and it appears that only Opposition parties are in complete denial about the need for a sustainable state pension age?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"15. What progress his Department has made in reducing the number of workless households...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome that encouraging figure, which means that fewer children are growing up in workless households. Does my right hon. Friend agree that, while ensuring that every family includes a member in work is the best way out of poverty, it also offers a great role model to any children …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"11. What estimate he has made of the number of households to which the benefit cap no longer applies...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"I have good news from North West Leicestershire, where two thirds of the households to which a benefit cap applied are no longer subject to that cap. Does that show that the Government are successfully targeting taxpayers’ money in a way that encourages benefit recipients to seek work and reorder …..."
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