Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: The Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/****)Found: the maximum UC childc are amounts to £1014.63 a month for a single child and £1739.37 a month for families
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stephen Lawrence Day: we need to recognise the drivers for disparityFound: Currently, eight government departments share a cross -cutting aim to ‘[s]upport the most disadvantaged
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stephen Lawrence Day: we need to recognise the drivers for disparityFound: Their families are affected by the issues linked to social disadvantage and the limitations this can
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: Andrew MURRISON MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Defence People and Service Families
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Larger families with children are particularly vulnerable to this form of injustice. - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) , including free school meals, which are being claimed by some 2 million of the most disadvantaged pupils - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Surely it is right that all families, whether in receipt of universal credit or not, should face the - Speech Link
Asked by: Rosie Duffield (Labour - Canterbury)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing non-repayable maintenance grants for higher education students from the least advantaged backgrounds.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
The government believes that income contingent student loans are a fair and sensible way of financing higher education (HE). It is only right that those who benefit from the system should make a fair contribution to its costs. The government have continued to increase maximum loans and grants for living and other costs for undergraduate and postgraduate students each year, with a 2.8% increase for the 2023/24 academic year and a further 2.5% increase announced for 2024/25.
In addition, the government have frozen maximum tuition fees for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years. By 2024/25, maximum fees will have been frozen for seven successive years. The department believe that the current fee freeze achieves the best balance between ensuring that the system remains financially sustainable, offering good value for the taxpayer, and reducing debt levels for students in real terms.
The government understands the pressures people have been facing with the cost of living and has taken action to help. The government have already made £276 million of student premium and mental health funding available for the 2023/24 academic year to support successful outcomes for students including disadvantaged students.
The government have also made a further £10 million of support available to help student mental health and hardship funding for the 2023/24 academic year. This funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes. For the 2024/25 financial year, the government have increased the Student Premium (full-time, part-time, and disabled premium) by £5 million to reflect high demand for hardship support. Further details of this allocation for the academic year 2024/25 will be announced by the Office for Students in the summer.
Overall, support to households to help with the high cost of living is worth £108 billion over 2022/23 to 2024/25, which is an average of £3,800 per UK household. The government believes this will have eased the pressure on family budgets, which will in turn enable many families to provide additional support to their children in HE to help them meet increased living costs.
Written Evidence Apr. 18 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: population, while worsening the mobility and accessibility opportunities of the most socially disadvantaged
Found: • prohibit landlords and letting agents from refusing to l et to families with children or people
Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) Councils are unable to invest in early intervention services that can prevent families reaching crisis - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) in need so that more children can remain living safely with their birth families. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Children and young people who are care-experienced come disproportionately from the most disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We know that families need support before crisis point. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baker, Claire (Lab - Mid Scotland and Fife) Our thoughts are with the families of each of those children.I know that we all want a social security - Speech Link
2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) would be more than happy to pick that up in correspondence.My thoughts are, of course, also with the families - Speech Link
3: Mundell, Oliver (Con - Dumfriesshire) Does the minister accept that having such poor services makes it harder for elderly, disabled and disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: Callaghan, Stephanie (SNP - Uddingston and Bellshill) I agree that child poverty remains unacceptably high, particularly among disabled children, whose families - Speech Link