"2. Whether she has made an assessment of the effect of ending the £20 universal credit uplift on trends in the level of homelessness. ..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"Charities warned that the cut to universal credit would risk 100,000 people falling into homelessness, yet the Government ploughed on with it. Added to that is the freeze to housing benefits, with the result that more families cannot afford their rent and risk losing the roof over their head, and …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"What recent estimate she has made of the number of (a) successful and (b) total applications to the kickstart scheme in the Thames Valley region. ..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for her answer. I agree that helping young people to get into work through this crisis is of paramount importance, but I was deeply concerned to hear, in a business roundtable organised by our local enterprise partnership, that that data is being gathered only at a …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"The bit about this that I find most difficult is that the whistleblowers were themselves jobcentre staff. What does it say about the culture in the DWP that they felt that they could not come to the Department and had to go to the BBC? My question is simple: did …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I would like to put on the record my thanks to the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier), who leads the Public Accounts Committee so well, and the National Audit Office. It is fair …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"Indeed, we have heard about the higher needs block; that is yet another area where there is cost-shunting.
On the twin-track system, what we need to do is look beyond: is one system better than the other? Actually, we have a lot to learn from the sorts of innovations that …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"T3. Oxford & District Action on Child Poverty recently met me to discuss the devastating impact of the two-child limit on working families in Oxford. It said, “You literally could not have designed a better policy to increase child poverty than this one,” with estimates suggesting that over a quarter …..." Layla Moran - View Speech
"5. What steps she is taking to measure progress on her Department’s objective of getting 200,000 more people into work through universal credit...." Layla Moran - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for his answer, but a recent Public Accounts Committee report on universal credit found that the Department, as it has in fact admitted, cannot empirically measure the number of people who are going back to work. I welcome the new Secretary of State to her place, …..." Layla Moran - View Speech