Dec. 04 2023
Source Page: Treasury Minutes progress report – December 2023Found: 23 Universal Credit / Fraud and Error – progress review 24 Sale of former Northern Rock assets
Nov. 30 2023
Source Page: HMPPS Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23Found: Prisoners have access to a minimum number of PE hours per week (1 hour per week for adults and 2 hours
Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The JRF recommended that universal credit should have what it called an “essentials guarantee” to ensure - Speech Link
2: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) The defunding of universal credit over the years has widened the gulf between the affluent and the destitute - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) They will benefit from our approach to universal credit and other benefits, 1.6 million households will - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It would mean that the rate of universal credit is set by an independent body which takes the cost of - Speech Link
5: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We will be spending £30 billion on universal credit in the next five years—a 40% increase. - Speech Link
Nov. 28 2023
Source Page: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23Found: This amounted to an injection of up to £115 million – the biggest uplift the sector has seen in over
Nov. 28 2023
Source Page: Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23Found: This amounted to an injection of up to £115 million – the biggest uplift the sector has seen in over
Nov. 28 2023
Source Page: HMPPS Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23Found: Prisoners have access to a minimum number of PE hours per week (1 hour per week for adults and 2 hours
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) which is why we are increasing universal credit and other benefits by 6.7% from next April in line with - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) If a claimant does not accept those new conditions without good reason, their universal credit claim - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) That rule was there pre-universal credit, and it is right, so I am not sure how it will cost £10 million - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) day and week to week. - Speech Link
5: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) claim that the sanctions they intend to apply in cutting off universal credit to the poor will not be - Speech Link
Report Nov. 23 2023
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: Addressing Child Poverty Through Parental Employment An inquiry report by the Social Justice and Social
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) unveiled game-changing plans to make full expensing permanent. - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) deduction is welcome and this is a good moment to make it permanent, especially as the UK will be hosting - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) universal credit after the pandemic.We need to be the voice of disabled people, the sick and the mentally - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) It is a scandal that some people had to restrict themselves to one shower per week. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) most transformational thing we could do for business and investment growth was make full expensing permanent - Speech Link
Nov. 22 2023
Source Page: Autumn Statement 2023 speechFound: I will also repeat the £3m uplift to the Community Security Trust.