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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Apr 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6. The Chief Secretary said in response to the right hon. Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin), who is no longer in his place, that schools would be funded for the additional costs of the teacher pension scheme, yet the Minister for School Standards wrote to me yesterday saying …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Tax Avoidance, Evasion and Compliance

"I echo the words of the Chairs of the Treasury Committee and the Select Committee on Justice. The Minister’s words that the Government will not focus on enforcing historical IR35 cases will stick in the gullet of those, like my constituents, who are sick with anxiety at facing huge bills …..."
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Written Question
Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
Friday 11th January 2019

Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claiming (a) working tax credits and (b) child tax credits have received overpayments in each year of the last 10 years.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

Information on the number of claimants in receipt of Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits who have received overpayments in the last ten years are published in HMRCs Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards, supplement on payments 2016-2017, published on 28th June 2018.

Data for overpayments can be found within the “Main aggregate” tab in the publication tables.

This publication can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-supplement-on-payments-2016-to-2017

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Dec 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"In the next two months, the Royal Bank of Scotland will close all but 56 branches in cities across England, leaving banking deserts in towns and rural areas like mine. What is the Chancellor doing to use the Government’s shareholding to exert public pressure on RBS and ensure that we …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Dec 2018
ATM Closures

"I thank my hon. Friend for bringing forward this important debate. My very rural constituency is similarly affected. When I met the PSR, I found its attitude was, “Wait and see whether there are any problems, and then we might think about acting.” Does he agree that that is not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman believe that money to support entrepreneurs is being well spent through the Government giving an average of £450,000 in entrepreneurs’ relief each to just 6,000 entrepreneurs? Does he acknowledge that the Government will take £1.5 billion off the 300,000 small businesses that will lose out through …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"Would the hon. Gentleman not agree with the Institute for Fiscal Studies that the cumulative impact of personal tax and benefit reform since 2015 has been that the bottom two thirds of society is far worse off and that the only people who are better off under this Government’s policies …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"With such disagreement on statistics between hon. Members on both sides of the House, it would be helpful to refer to an impartial observer from the United Nations who has spent the past two weeks going across the United Kingdom and looking at our levels of poverty and the associated …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"I find it hard to believe that any of us, as Members of Parliament who are seen to be compassionate and caring people who represent our constituents, do not have struggling constituents coming to them. A single parent came to me who has had to give up his job because …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"I am afraid that for constituents like mine, about whom I was speaking earlier, work is not a route out of poverty. For them, trying a temporary job and moving into work is a fast route on to universal credit and into absolute poverty.

In spite of all the promises …..."
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