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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2015
Compulsory Jobs Guarantee

"Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very telling that the number of part-timers who would like to have full-time work has fallen by 140,000? That is a clear indication that full-time work is back...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2015
Compulsory Jobs Guarantee

"Listening to the hon. Lady is reminding me of Nicola Sturgeon’s speech. She is arguing for more borrowing, more spending and more tax, so is the hon. Lady buying into the SNP agenda?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Housing Benefit (Abolition of Social Sector Size Criteria)

"The Minister is making a point about employment and people moving into work. Is not the end of dependency a huge social change? Each one of those people has been helped by this Government...."
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Written Question
Government Assistance: Hertfordshire
Thursday 11th December 2014

Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) completed the Work Programme and (b) received assistance from the Start-Up Loans scheme in North East Hertfordshire constituency.

Answered by Esther McVey

With regard to part (a) in the North East Hertfordshire constituency 210 people have completed the Work Programme up to and including June 2014.

With regard to part (b) of the question the Business Bank’s Start-Up Loan programme has provided 23 loans, with a value of £75,495 to people starting a business in North East Hertfordshire.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2012
Pensions and Social Security

"Does my hon. Friend not think that it is really rather a tribute to his work that the orders are so non-controversial that there is not a single Opposition Back Bencher in the Chamber to discuss the uprating of all the benefits that this country has? I pay tribute to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2012
Pensions and Social Security

"I am grateful to the Minister for being so generous with his time. Does he agree that some quite significant changes are taking place in the hierarchy of indexes that can be used for uprating? For example, earnings, which was always thought to be by far the highest measure, is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2012
Pensions and Social Security

"Does the Minister agree that the Government have also gone further than they needed to on the pension credit? The requirement is to uprate by earnings but he has gone one better by increasing it by 3.9%. So not only were the siren calls resisted, but more generosity was shown …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2012
Pensions and Social Security

"Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we need to exercise judgment about what the increase should be? One of the faults of the last Government was to be too rigid. My hon. Friend the Member for Meon Valley (George Hollingbery) has already mentioned the 75p increase, but there was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2012
Pensions and Social Security

"The right hon. Gentleman is being a bit naughty. It is a general provision in many pension schemes that there is a method of indexation, and it is often permissible to exceed it. To exceed the triple lock is not to break it; it is simply to be more generous. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Dec 2011
Unemployment

"Does the right hon. Gentleman not accept that the future jobs fund was not about providing long-term jobs, but about short-term work placements of six months in the public sector? What is the point of that? If he wants to talk about solid outcomes for the future, he should not …..."
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