Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill
"I believe that the relief should be reviewed, which is what new clause 3 would require. We could then see its impact on the most well off and on the poorest, and in particular its impact among those who aspire to be entrepreneurs and who aspire to bring themselves out …..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill
"That is what the new clause would require. If the Government wanted us to abolish entrepreneurs’ relief and had given us a Finance Bill that we could actually amend, and if they had the courage to put their policies to votes on the Floor of the House and to give …..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill
"My hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown) has just said from a sedentary position that the Government have set the parameters for the scope of amendments in this Bill. The same happened with the previous two Finance Bills that they brought to the House. They have not …..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill
"Does my hon. Friend agree that the huge rise in council tax for council tax payers on every level of income is a highly regressive form of tax? In my Derbyshire constituency, people are having to pay more council tax for fewer police...."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill
"The Conservative party came to power in 2010 promising to eliminate the deficit by 2015. Not only has it not done that, but it has doubled this country’s debt and brought public services to their knees. Is the Minister claiming that this project has been a success?..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"After the Budget, then, more than 3 million families will still be losing an average of £2,100 a year by transferring to universal credit. With 40% of claimants in debt and 38% in rent arrears, are not the Government simply transferring the nation’s debt into the pockets of the poorest …..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"My clinical commissioning group in north Derbyshire has seen an uplift of only 1% over the five-year funding settlement from 2016-17, resulting in a deficit of £51 million to find this year in cuts and of £71 million next year. It is having to cut everything that it is not …..."Ruth George - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 24th July 2018
Asked by:
Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were eligible for the disabled worker element of Working Tax Credit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Information on the number of families and workers in receipt of disabled worker element and the number of in-work families in receipt of the disabled child element are published in our yearly finalised annual awards statistics publication at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics
The numbers of families who are eligible for, but not claiming these elements is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Information on the average number of families benefitting from these elements of the Child and Working Tax Credits in the last five years for which we have finalised awards data is shown in the attached table.
Written Question
Tuesday 24th July 2018
Asked by:
Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households with disabled children were eligible for the Disabled Child element of Child Tax Credit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Information on the number of families and workers in receipt of disabled worker element and the number of in-work families in receipt of the disabled child element are published in our yearly finalised annual awards statistics publication at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics
The numbers of families who are eligible for, but not claiming these elements is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Information on the average number of families benefitting from these elements of the Child and Working Tax Credits in the last five years for which we have finalised awards data is shown in the attached table.
Written Question
Tuesday 24th July 2018
Asked by:
Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households received both the disabled worker element of Working Tax Credit and Disabled Child element of Child Tax Credit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Information on the number of families and workers in receipt of disabled worker element and the number of in-work families in receipt of the disabled child element are published in our yearly finalised annual awards statistics publication at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics
The numbers of families who are eligible for, but not claiming these elements is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Information on the average number of families benefitting from these elements of the Child and Working Tax Credits in the last five years for which we have finalised awards data is shown in the attached table.