Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Housing Benefit (Abolition of Social Sector Size Criteria)
"That fits with what is happening in Aberdeen. People are not going into the private rented sector, because it is too expensive. Rents are above the cap that the Government have set. The irony is that the Government are prepared to pay money up to a cap that is higher …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Housing Benefit (Abolition of Social Sector Size Criteria)
"The only choice that a person has is to stay where they are and pay the bedroom tax. That is the problem...."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Housing Benefit (Abolition of Social Sector Size Criteria)
"Will the Minister tell my Select Committee when we can expect the Government’s response to our report on housing costs, which was published in April?..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Dec 2014
Post Office Card Account
"In his statement and his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Gregg McClymont), the Minister made it clear that the POCA will not become a transactional account, and it is therefore less likely to be suitable for people who have been moved on …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am surprised by the Minister’s answer, because my Select Committee made exactly this recommendation and the Government have turned it down. The situation has got worse for people who are reapplying for employment and support allowance, because they think that their ill health has got worse. In future, they …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 02 Dec 2014
Benefit Sanctioning
"Before my hon. Friend finishes, will he tell us whether the research found evidence of people having to resort to payday lenders or loan sharks to get over the immediate problem of a lack of cash? Did that then create problems for them further down the road because they had …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2014
Universal Credit
"Will the Secretary of State confirm that the reason the volumes are so low is that only the simplest cases in the simplest groups are covered? Although it has been rolled out to families, they will still be only the simplest and easiest-to-deal-with families. Given that 250,000 jobseeker’s allowance claims …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 24th November 2014
Asked by:
Anne Begg (Labour - Aberdeen South)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's consultation, child maintenance: closing cases in Segments 3 and 4 simultaneously, published on 27 October 2014, what effect such simultaneous closure will have on (a) forecast volumes and the cost of calls demands to the Child Maintenance Options Service, (b) forecast volumes and cost of recruitment and training of new staff for the Child Maintenance Options Service and (c) forecast staff numbers and costs associated with the validation of child maintenance arrears in closed cases in the year from April 2015.
Answered by Steve Webb
Child Maintenance Group is still considering the precise number of case closure letters that will be issued each week for Segments 3 and 4. Consequently, it isn’t yet possible to describe how confirmed letter numbers will influence forecasting assumptions. As all CSA cases will need to be closed over the agreed transitional timeline, resource demands will remain the same regardless of whether Segments 3 and 4 are implemented simultaneously.
Written Question
Monday 24th November 2014
Asked by:
Anne Begg (Labour - Aberdeen South)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's consultation, child maintenance: closing cases in Segments 3 and 4 simultaneously, published on 27 October 2014, whether such simultaneous closure will affect the contract between G4S and his Department on the anticipated level of call demands to the Child Maintenance Options Service for the years 2015 and 2016.
Answered by Steve Webb
The proposed, simultaneous closure of Segment 3 and 4 cases will not affect the nature of the Child Maintenance Options supplier contract between G4S and DWP. This contract’s governance arrangement provides for operational resources to be reviewed each month and agreed for three months in advance, taking account of actual service demands versus forecasted business volumes.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Oct 2014
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Reform (Disabled People)
"It is a great pleasure to follow the new Member, my hon. Friend the Member for Heywood and Middleton (Liz McInnes), and I add my congratulations to her on her maiden speech.
Let me make clear how many disabled people across the whole of the United Kingdom are feeling just …..."Anne Begg - View Speech
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