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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Mar 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I pay tribute to Worthing jobcentre, which has been very proactive in dealing with new benefit claimants and will have a lot of extra work, alas, with people who find themselves out of a job because of the pandemic.

Work coaches offer important support to a diverse range of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" With forecasts showing that there may be as many as 1 million young people without a job, I urge the Minister to think outside the box. I have long argued that we should use graduates and gap-year students to help some of those pupils who have missed out on …..."
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Written Question
Older Workers and Social Security Benefits: Females
Tuesday 7th January 2020

Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women between 60 and 66 years old are in (a) full-time employment, (b) part-time employment, (c) receipt of in-work benefits and (d) receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance.

Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

For parts a) and b) the latest information is contained in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Women in employment

Full-time

Part-time

60-66

505,000

675,000

Source: Labour Force Survey, Jul-Sep 2019

For part c), table 2 shows the number of women aged 60-65 and over 65 who are claiming Universal Credit and are in employment (figures for the specific age group 60-66 are not available within Stat-Xplore).

Table 2: Women claiming Universal Credit and in employment, October 2019

In employment

60-65

16,676

Over 65

57

Source: DWP Stat-Xplore

For part d), table 3 shows the number of women aged 60-65 who are claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (figures for the specific age group 60-66 are not available within Stat-Xplore).

Table 3: Women claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, May 2019

60-65

10,703

Source: DWP Stat-Xplore

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"As we have heard, many 1950s-born women have now reached the age at which they expected to receive a pension but are not, and many are struggling. Given that the judicial review is now out of the way, will the new Secretary of State agree to meet me and my …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Department for Education

"I congratulate the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier), on bringing forward this report. It is good that we have recently had more debating time on things to do with children in schools. We have another debate on schools funding …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Department for Education

"The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and it is of course the local authorities that get the blame for not delivering the goods, even though we have not been giving them the money to do so in certain cases. There are also huge differentials in the way in which those …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Department for Education

"Well, I have been here for 22 years, and I have also seen a thing or two.

When I was a Minister at the Department for Education, we came up with the early intervention budget because it was the right thing to do on so many fronts. It alarms me …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Jan 2019
State Pension Age: Women

"I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way because, otherwise, I might have been the only person not to interrupt her, and I do not want to feel like the odd one out. As the other co-chair of the all-party group and a signatory to the Bill, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Dec 2017
Pension Equality for Women

"I am proud to be a co-signatory of the motion. So far the hon. Gentleman has referred only to WASPI but, as we know, there is an awful lot of interest in this whole issue, and only some of the groups involved call themselves WASPI. We are actually talking about …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Dec 2017
Pension Equality for Women

"Another day, another debate on pensions for women born in the 1950s. We have now had many more debates on this subject than Elizabeth Taylor had husbands, and much like her seventh husband, I find it difficult to know what new to bring to the bedroom, if not the debate …..."
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