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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"My disabled constituent Ann’s monthly fuel bills of £95 have now risen to £140 and will rise to £200 in April; she also faces inflation-busting care costs. In her budgeting, she has to choose between heating and eating—exactly the problems that were highlighted in the NatCen report. Who benefited most …..."
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Written Question
Energy: Prices
Monday 7th February 2022

Asked by: Clive Efford (Labour - Eltham and Chislehurst)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of rising fuel costs on disabled people in receipt of benefits.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The Chancellor announced (on 3rd of February) a £200 rebate for households delivered via their energy bill this autumn, paid back automatically over the next 5 years, spreading the increased costs of global prices over time in a way that is more manageable for households.

Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Greater London
Friday 21st January 2022

Asked by: Clive Efford (Labour - Eltham and Chislehurst)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment support allowance in (a) Eltham, (b) Bromley and Chislehurst, (c) Beckenham, (d) Orpington, (e) Old Bexley and Sidcup and (f) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19th January to question number 104377.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Underpayment of Benefits: Compensation

"I wish to pay tribute to Greenwich Borough Council’s welfare rights unit for identifying this error and for the tenacity with which it pursued it on behalf of my constituent. This will affect the 118,000 other people who have also been wronged. My constituent suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, arthritis, hypertension …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits

"My hon. Friend is making an extremely powerful speech. We have been through a period when communities have come together, and he has just talked about volunteering and the way that communities have come together to deal with food poverty in particular. Children have been involved in that, and this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Sep 2021
Pensions Update

"We have become used to the Government’s breaking of manifesto pledges, for instance on overseas aid and a border in the Irish sea, but today we have had two in one day, which is pretty remarkable. First, we heard the Prime Minister announce that he would break his pledge not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" Many disabled people have lost carers and are struggling to employ replacements during the covid crisis. This can mean that they have lost vital support in applying for benefits. I spoke to a constituent today who flagged up that there is nowhere on the system for people to indicate …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 May 2020
Covid-19: DWP Update

"It cannot be fair that families on the benefit cap are not benefiting from the uprating of payments that has happened during this crisis. The Resolution Foundation has predicted that, in over two thirds of local authority areas, a couple with two children in an average three-bedroom house will be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Personal Independence Payments: Supreme Court Ruling

"We all have casework in our surgeries involving people suffering from mental health issues who have been denied PIP or have had it taken away from them, but the situation goes beyond that. I have a profoundly deaf constituent who was transferred from DLA to PIP, but they were then …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"My 16-year-old constituent has a severe hearing impairment and has been on DLA since the age of three. My constituent has recently been reassessed and is now receiving no support whatsoever. How do the Government justify such decisions?..."
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