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Written Question
Food Banks
Thursday 28th January 2016

Asked by: Christina Rees (Labour (Co-op) - Neath)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics on national food bank usage.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The Government has no plans to collect or publish statistics on food bank usage.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
In-work Poverty

"Does my hon. Friend know that 167,400 working families in Wales will be impacted by these cuts and that 134,600 of them are families with children?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
In-work Poverty

"It was remiss of me not to say in my earlier intervention what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner.

Does my hon. Friend agree that although responsibility for tackling in-work poverty in Wales is a devolved issue, the levers for tackling it lie mainly with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
In-work Poverty

"As the hon. Gentleman knows, new claims for legacy benefits will cease by June 2018 and migration to universal credit will be completed by 2021. As the Department for Work and Pensions says it cannot estimate the number of people who will be on universal credit by the time the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
In-work Poverty

"Does my hon. Friend recognise that lone parents are already twice as likely as two-parent families to be in poverty? Single parents are worse hit in the combined reforms; as a share of income, they lose seven times more than two-parent families. By 2021, single parents will lose £1,300 a …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
In-work Poverty

"Surely the increase in jobs in Wales is down to the excellent policies of the Welsh Labour Government and schemes such as Jobs Growth Wales with EU investment...."
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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Wales
Monday 23rd November 2015

Asked by: Christina Rees (Labour (Co-op) - Neath)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what process his Department identified the areas of policy within its responsibility proposed for reservation in Annex B of the publication Powers for a Purpose: Towards a lasting devolution settlement for Wales, published on 27 February 2015.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Annex B to the Powers for a Purpose Command Paper provided an illustrative list of the main areas in which reservations would be needed in a reserved powers model. The list described the Government’s emerging thinking as the new reserved powers model was being developed. The Government published its full proposals in the draft Wales Bill on 20 October. .

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Wales
Monday 23rd November 2015

Asked by: Christina Rees (Labour (Co-op) - Neath)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the matters within his Department's responsibility in Schedule 1 of the draft Wales Bill have been designated as reserved.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The reservations listed in Schedule 1 to the draft Wales Bill reflects the Government’s view of where the Welsh devolution boundary lies following the devolution of further powers to the Assembly provided for in the draft Bill.

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Wales
Monday 23rd November 2015

Asked by: Christina Rees (Labour (Co-op) - Neath)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times he has (a) met and (b) corresponded with a minister of the Welsh Government on the draft Wales Bill in the last 12 months.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The Wales Office is the lead Government department on the draft Wales Bill, and is the primary point of contact with the Welsh Government on matters related to the draft Bill.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 07 Jul 2015
Jobcentre Plus

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Williams. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans) on securing this important debate.

Job seeking is often a stressful, unpredictable journey that is usually travelled alone. Losing a job is difficult, not only for the individual, …..."
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