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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"When the opportunity arises, I will express my reservations about, if not opposition to, the recall Bill. It is not the right way of dealing with a matter that is obviously of concern to all of us, which is those Members who act in a wrong and dishonest way. We …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"I see the hon. Gentleman shaking his head. Let me mention one statistic that has been sent to all Members by the Trussell Trust, which, as we all know, provides food banks: in 2013-14, nearly 1 million people received three days of emergency food from that trust alone—there are other …..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 9th June 2014

Asked by: David Winnick (Labour - Walsall North)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will arrange for replies to be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North to his letters to (a) the Chief Operating Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service of 7 April and 7 May; and if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to that hon. Member to his letter to the Chief Executive, Capita-PIP ref PIP100 34851/101 of 7 April 2014 on behalf of a constituent.

Answered by Mike Penning

A reply to all of the issues that you raised in both of your letters will be sent to you by one of our Directors by 13 June 2014.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jan 2014
Welfare Reforms and Poverty

"Ministers—and certainly some Tory Back Benchers, as we have just heard—are in a state of denial about the increasing poverty in this country resulting from Government policies. They want us to believe—the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies) is as good an example as any—that we are dealing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jan 2014
Welfare Reforms and Poverty

"That too is an important point, which I hope the Minister will bear in mind when he winds up the debate.

For those who have limited means, for those who cannot find work and for the disabled, the last few years—especially the last three—have become a desperate struggle for survival. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2013
Romanians and Bulgarians (Benefits)

"What about answering the question?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Feb 2013
Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)

"Has it occurred to the hon. Lady during her excellent speech that not a single Government Member has criticised the bedroom tax in any way? Does that not reflect the manner in which the Government are conducting themselves towards the most vulnerable people in society?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Feb 2013
Pensions and Social Security

"The Minister says that we cannot vote against the 1% figure without opposing the uprating of pensions and the rest. That may well be so, and no doubt he is pleased about it, but the fact remains that whether we vote against it or not, some of us feel very …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Feb 2013
Pensions and Social Security

"Shortly after we were elected in 1997, did we not introduce both the non-means-tested winter fuel allowance, which the previous Tory Government had refused to do, and the free television licence for pensioners, which I had tried to introduce in a private Member’s Bill on Friday 16 January 1987, when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Feb 2013
Pensions and Social Security

"My right hon. Friend is being very generous with his time. Is he aware that, as someone who from time to time did not always agree with every aspect of the Labour Government during their 13 years—although I certainly did in the vast majority of cases—one of the things that …..."
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