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Written Question
Statutory Sick Pay
Monday 23rd March 2020

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.99 of the Budget 2020 Red Book, when her Department plans to issue guidance to employers on the operation of the Statutory Sick Pay repayment mechanism.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The Department is working closely with HMRC on the necessary clauses in the Coronavirus Bill and on the underpinning guidance which employers will need.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2020
Statutory Sick Pay and Protection for Workers

"My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. May I echo the point that she made about Denmark? I understand that both the French and the Italian Governments are seeking to introduce exactly the same system to support workers who would otherwise be laid off. The money is being paid …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Local Housing Allowance: Homeless Young People

"I commend the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing this debate. The Minister will be well aware that only something like 6,480 social rent properties were built in 2018. We have a huge undersupply, as the Minister highlights. The other day, Shelter told me that people are …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Jul 2019
Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness

"The hon. Gentleman is making an extremely powerful and important speech. He seems to be making the case for much-needed and industrial-scale social rented housing, which would provide people with basic security of tenure for their home, so that they can then get a job and enter the workplace with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Jul 2019
Local Housing Allowance and Homelessness

"My right hon. Friend is making a powerful and important speech. Does he agree that there are two issues: that the Government are hiding behind statistics about housebuilding that are inflated through permitted development rights and in other ways, and that we are seeing an increase in HMOs? The provision …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 22 May 2019
Pension Funds: Financial and Ethical Investments

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Howarth. I thank the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Sir Edward Davey) for bringing this important debate to the Chamber.

Pension funds are hugely important—they are also personally important to me—because they are major stakeholders in the UK …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"14. What steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people can access the social security benefits to which they are entitled. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"A year ago I wrote, with 100 MPs from across the House, to the then Secretary of State to highlight what was really faced by so many disabled people, which is a hostile environment in trying to access payments. It now transpires that seven reviews are being undertaken by the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. Does the Minister think that a 47-week average wait for a PIP appeal hearing at the Coventry centre is acceptable, particularly considering that the person appealing will not receive any money during that time and that 80% of decisions are overturned at tribunal?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"We have seen an exponential increase in underemployment since 2010, through the growth of part-time jobs and zero-hours contracts. Does the Minister therefore agree that what we have actually seen is a jobs mirage rather than a jobs miracle?..."
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