"The Government have today published the report from the independent review into overpayments of carer’s allowance linked to earnings and the Government’s response to its recommendations. These are available on gov.uk and copies will be placed in the Library of the House.
Finding out what went wrong with carer’s allowance
"I welcome the initiative that my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) has taken in applying for and obtaining this debate. I want to pick up on a number of important points that she made in her excellent speech, but I will begin by commenting on the …..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct that this has quite a long history, but my sense is that it has got considerably worse in the last few years and the Department has stopped publishing things that obviously should be published and answering perfectly reasonable questions. As a result, it …..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"The hon. Lady is right and my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea made that point as well. I think that is unhelpful and should be removed.
We also called in our report for larger employers to be required to publish the proportion of their employees who are disabled, and …..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"I agree. There is a big job to be done, and involving disabled people in doing it would be an important part of the solution.
There is also an industrial injuries disablement benefit backlog at the moment. It remains the case, as my hon. Friend has pointed out, that when …..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"The Work and Pensions Committee visited Glasgow and met senior officers of Social Security Scotland. There is a great deal in the approach for which the hon. Lady is advocating. She is right and the Minister would do well to take a look at that...." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"As the Minister is running through the things that the Government are doing, can he clarify what their intentions are on the national disability strategy? That was stuck in the courts in January. Do the Government intend to move that forward and, if so, when?..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"Is the Minister going to come back to the subject of the national disability strategy and tell us what the Government’s intentions are on that?..." Stephen Timms - View Speech
"I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Torbay (Kevin Foster). I thank him for the help he gave me when he was a Minister, and I agree with what he says about pension credit. I think the key is probably for local government to work more closely with …..." Stephen Timms - View Speech