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Written Question
Legal Aid Scheme
Wednesday 11th June 2014

Asked by: Michael McCann (Labour - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Mike Penning

The Department does not centrally record information about the identity of claimants' representatives or information relating to claimants' funding arrangements. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Legal Aid Scheme
Wednesday 11th June 2014

Asked by: Michael McCann (Labour - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers have represented clients in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Mike Penning

The Department does not centrally record information about the identity of claimants' representatives or information relating to claimants' funding arrangements. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2014
Job Insecurity

"Does my hon. Friend agree that Opposition Members will not be celebrating the proliferation of zero-hours contracts, which allow our young people, in particular, to be exploited by employers who want them to be at the other end of the telephone waiting to be told when to come to work …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Jul 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Jul 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Judging by the evidence of my constituency surgeries, the testimony of other Members and the number of successful appeals, it appears that Atos cannot tell the difference between someone who is sick and someone who is not. Given that that is the company’s job, when is the Secretary of State …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Feb 2013
Pensions and Social Security

"Will my right hon. Friend confirm that, although strivers are the very people the Prime Minister has said he wants to protect, he will ultimately be damaging them as a result of the new regulations?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. How many people currently claiming a state pension will benefit from the new higher rate state pension under his proposals for a single tier scheme...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am grateful for the Minister’s response. Will he confirm that Britain’s 12 million current pensioners and 4 million future pensioners will not benefit at all from the Government’s proposed changes?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2013
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman accept that since his Government were elected, they have increased borrowing by £212 billion?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2013
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

"rose—..."
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