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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Earlier on, the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton), mentioned scaremongering by the Opposition. I can confirm that that scaremongering causes grave anxiety among my constituents. Will the Minister confirm that, for example, an advance payment does not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jun 2018
Universal Credit and Welfare Changes

"I thank the Secretary of State for her statement. I also thank the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse), who visited Stirling last week and held a roundtable meeting with representatives from the Stirling citizens advice bureau, our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Personal Independence Payments

"It is important to put the urgent question and the comments from the Opposition in context. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government are spending more than £50 billion on supporting sick and disabled people, and that we spend more in this country on supporting disabled people than …..."
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Written Question
Unemployment: Scotland
Tuesday 29th May 2018

Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the minimum monthly living expenses required for a single unemployed person in central Scotland.

Answered by Lord Sharma

The Department has not made an assessment of the minimum monthly living expenses required for a single unemployed person in central Scotland.

However, the Department publishes a range of measures of living standards in the Households Below Average (HBAI) publication. The latest estimates are to 2016/17 and 2017/18 results have been pre-announced to be published in February / March 2019.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 May 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. Where are we on the transfer of welfare powers to the Scottish National party Government? Whose court is the ball in?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Mar 2018
Scottish Welfare Powers

"Reference was just made to the Scottish Social Security Committee report. In its conclusions, it in fact states:

“There have been a number of consistent concerns raised about the Bill, in particular the balance between what is contained in the Bill and what will be in regulations.”

The distinct lack …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Mar 2018
Scottish Welfare Powers

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his generosity. Surely the whole point of this debate is not the issue raised in the previous intervention by the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patricia Gibson), but what will happen to social security in Scotland in future. That is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Mar 2018
Scottish Welfare Powers

"On a point of information, Mrs Thatcher left office in 1990. The devolution settlement the hon. Gentleman is referring to occurred under Tony Blair’s Government, eight years later...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Mar 2018
Scottish Welfare Powers

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. I congratulate him on his powerful speech, even though I do not agree with everything that he is saying. Does he agree that the evidence that he is presenting shows how difficult it is for the Scottish Government to get their …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Mar 2018
Scottish Welfare Powers

"Having made a number of interventions, I will take a few seconds simply to say that what concerns me most about the passage of the Social Security (Scotland) Bill, as outlined by the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Mr Sweeney), is the disregard that the Scottish National party in …..."
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