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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"I entirely endorse the argument that my hon. Friend is making. The big punishment in yesterday’s Budget was the increase in taxation on dividends. That says to our wealth creators and entrepreneurs—the people who create jobs—“Don’t bother.”..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"Labour Members are like a broken record. The last Conservative Government certainly made a number of mistakes—we have put our hands up to that—but we left employment high and unemployment at a record low, and jobs were being created every single day.

Now, businesses are not taking on—or are planning …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"In reflecting on the title that the Government have offered up for today’s Budget resolutions debate, “Economic Sustainability and Fair Choices”, I have found myself wondering on what planet anyone could possibly call yesterday’s Budget sustainable or fair. The forecasts show that GDP growth will be down in every year …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"While the spousal transfer is a very narrow measure that might give a couple of years or maybe a decade’s relief, at the end of the day farmers will still have to sell massive chunks of their farm to meet the inheritance tax bill. What will the hon. Lady say …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"Answer the question! This is a debate...."
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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Energy
Tuesday 29th April 2025

Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to improve energy efficiency across her Department's estate.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

We have interpreted this to refer to measures undertaken across the Department’s estate in support of broader sustainability and decarbonisation objectives.

DWP is forecast to achieve the challenging energy efficiency related targets set out in the Greening Government Commitments (GGC), which finished in April 2025. While we await final clearance on the latest iteration GGC framework, we continue to prioritise energy efficiency across our operational estate.

The DWPs strategy for improving energy efficiency includes:

  • Strategic asset acquisition – Ensuring energy performance is a key consideration in the procurement and leasing of new assets.
  • Decarbonising existing estate – Through technologies such as solar PV, decarbonisation of heating systems, LED lighting upgrades, minimum design standards for all works undertaken and building management system (BMS) enhancements.
  • Operational optimisation – Including active monitoring, smart controls, management system development and behavioural interventions to reduce consumption and improve performance.

Looking ahead to this financial year, we intend to expand and accelerate these activities, subject to available resources, building on successful projects and continuing to embed energy efficiency as a core principle of our estate strategy

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What steps she is taking to ensure that the household support fund helps the most vulnerable during winter 2021-22. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"The £500 million household support fund is extremely welcome and my local council is busy ensuring that support reaches those who need it through their excellent Helping Hand scheme. Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Buckinghamshire Council on ensuring that a comprehensive package is available for those …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"Increasingly sophisticated digital skills are ever more crucial for those seeking work. With that in mind, what steps is my right hon. Friend taking to help all universal credit claimants to improve and strengthen their digital skills as they seek work?..."
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