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Written Question
Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Maternity Leave
Wednesday 10th June 2020

Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that self-employed women that qualify for 30 hours free childcare scheme will be able to access that scheme in the event that Self-Employment Income Support Scheme calculations bring their total income below the threshold for qualifying as a result of a period of maternity leave over the last three years.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

To be eligible for Tax Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare, both parents need to earn at least the equivalent of 16 hours per week at the National Living Wage. The Government introduced a temporary measure to ensure that those who are unable to meet this requirement due to loss of income as a result of Covid-19 will maintain their entitlement.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 May 2020
Covid-19: Economic Package

"Women who are eligible for the self-employed income support scheme but have taken a period of maternity leave since 2016 could receive up to one third less financial support. This discriminates against women on lower incomes in particular, penalises families with young children, and exacerbates the gender pay gap. Will …..."
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Written Question
Loneliness
Thursday 5th March 2020

Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that the nine Departments tasked with tackling loneliness receive adequate funding to (a) deliver the Government’s long-term vision on tackling loneliness and (b) build on the progress made against the 60 commitments set out in the 2018 strategy entitled A Connected Society.

Answered by Steve Barclay

The government is taking a cross-departmental approach to tackling loneliness, recognising that no one department holds all the levers for successful change. The work is led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with eight other departments contributing commitments to the Loneliness Strategy. The government's Loneliness Strategy was published in October 2018 and an annual report was published in January 2020, setting out headlines on progress so far. The government will carry out a Comprehensive Spending Review later this year, where the government will take a systematic view across all spending over multiple years and set future budgets. An announcement on the timing of the Spending Review will be made in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jul 2019
Youth Services

"Youth First provides fantastic youth services across Lewisham, and it was instrumental in bringing the community together when 15-year-old Jay Hughes was murdered last November. However, it is chronically underfunded owing to cuts to our local authority, so it cannot provide the detached youth workers that the Minister just mentioned. …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 22 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Third sitting)

"In the evidence sessions yesterday, several circus owners made the point that the animals in their circuses were exotic animals, rather than wild animals. To ensure that there is no ambiguity about that, it would be helpful if the Minister confirmed that the definition of wild animals in the Bill …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 22 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Third sitting)

"We also heard during yesterday’s evidence that 45 countries have already banned or restricted the use of wild animals in circuses, so we are behind the curve. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is no need for further delay?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 21 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No.2) Bill (First sitting)

"Q You talk very compellingly about wild animals in circuses and their welfare. There is nothing in the Bill about domesticated animals in circuses. Do you have any views about whether that should be in scope, or whether there are welfare needs of domesticated animals that are not currently …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 21 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)

"Q Some of the answers to Mr Hoare’s questions were about children being able to see the animals because they are in a circus. Is that different from going to see an animal in a safari park, for example, where the animal is in a habitat in which it …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 21 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)

"Q What about when they are packed up and have to travel from place to place?

Peter Jolly: We do not pack them up...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 21 May 2019
Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)

"Q But they move around, do they not?

Peter Jolly: Our animals are transported; we do not pack them up. We pack the tent up.

Carol MacManus: Zoo animals are moved around, too, but they are generally not used to it. I am not an expert on zoo animals, …..."
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