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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 05 Jul 2017
State Pension Age for Women

"Earlier, the hon. Gentleman referred to communications. How can it possibly be right that when I wrote to women in my constituency whom I identified might be affected, many wrote back and said that was the first time they had ever been told by anybody? That is the injustice of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 05 Jul 2017
State Pension Age for Women

"I had not asked to speak, Sir Edward, but if you force me to—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Mar 2017
Personal Independence Payments

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Mar 2017
Personal Independence Payments

"Thank you very much for spotting me, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State seems to think—he has said it several times now—that just because we prayed against the statutory instrument, we are bound to have a one-and-a-half hour debate and a vote. That is completely untrue. The only person who …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jan 2017
Jobcentre Plus Offices: Closure

"Rhondda has one of the highest unemployment rates in this country, so how on earth does it make sense to close the debt management service—the only one in Wales, at Oldway House in Porth in the Rhondda—taking the 93 jobs and sending them somewhere else? For that matter, why on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"But would it not make sense for the Department for Work and Pensions to do some investigative work now, when there are thousands if not millions of British pensioners living elsewhere in the European Union? Those people currently have free access, for example, to the NHS in their local areas …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Under-occupancy Penalty

"But it is out of order...."
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Written Question
Jobcentre Plus
Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to letters sent by district managers of Jobcentre Plus to hon. Members on 30 September 2014, how many such letters were sent; and what the estimated cost to his Department of sending those letters was.

Answered by Lord Harper

The information requested was not collated centrally by the Department. It was intended that all District Managers would write to their local Members of Parliament about Universal Credit national expansion, so that each hon. Member should have received a letter. Such letters should, as a matter of routine, be sent by second class post.

Written Question
Food Banks
Thursday 11th December 2014

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 20 December 2012 to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree, Official Report, column 929W, on food banks, what visits Ministers of his Department have made to foodbanks in order to assess the effects of welfare reforms on foodbank use since December 2012.

Answered by Esther McVey

DWP Ministers have visited a range of organisations, including foodbanks, and discussed various topics, including welfare reform.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is one thing to get a job; it is quite another to get a job that pays enough to put food on the table. That is why the majority of people who use the food bank in the Rhondda are in work, which is surely a Dickensian-style disgrace. Is …..."
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