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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill

"The Minister made it very clear that this is not about the elements relating to spare rooms but an argument that is contested in respect of non-dependant deductions...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill

"Does my hon. Friend not accept that the debate today is not about the principle of the spare room subsidy, spare room rent subsidy, bedroom tax or whatever we wish to call it, but about whether the exceptions set out in guidance—in effect, there are legitimate expectations about those exceptions, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Pension Schemes Bill

"I start with an apology to the House because I had to attend two Committees earlier so could not attend most of this debate. I refer Members to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. My company, John Hemming & Company Systems, provides software to financial services organisations, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Universal Credit

"Does the Secretary of State agree that the Opposition would do a better job if, rather than asking picky bureaucratic questions, they focused on whether universal credit will improve pay for low-paid people and ensure that work pays?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2014
DWP: Performance

"I apologise to the House for having been in a Statutory Instrument Committee—in fact, on DWP issues—listening to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) padding out his speech while saying very little. That is essentially where we are: we are not quite sure what the Labour party’s alternative is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2014
DWP: Performance

"I am sorry, but I will not take an intervention from the hon. Gentleman because it will knock somebody else out.

The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Dame Anne Begg), was quite right to say that welfare reform is a very complex …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"Is it still the Opposition’s policy to get rid of the intermediate apprenticeship?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"One always wonders whether the Opposition have actually learned anything while in opposition, and listening to the shadow Secretary of State gave some indication of whether they have or not. I have had some useful conversations recently with Lord Turnbull, who, as Cabinet Secretary, was the senior civil servant and, …..."
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Written Question
Police
Wednesday 9th April 2014

Asked by: John Hemming (Liberal Democrat - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to implement a universal credit sanctions scheme to replace the current jobseeker's allowance and other sanctions scheme.

Answered by Esther McVey

In 2012 revised sanctions regimes introduced into Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance moved us towards the Universal Credit system, with the same value of sanction across all benefits and the same duration of sanctions at medium and high levels.

We continue to monitor sanctions closely and consider opportunities for continuous improvement.