First Registered: 31/01/2018 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
To collaborate across the political spectrum to campaign against legislative loopholes that disadvantage single parents, and for positive representation of a category which is increasingly common yet still all too often stigmatised.
1. Reduce tax for single parent with no financial support
03/05/2020 - Petitions
Found: Single parent families should be taxed on a household income of under £80,000 at basic rate tax and not
2. Gingerbread - written evidence
03/07/2019 - Inquiry: School holiday poverty - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: charity working with single parent families. Gingerbread hears directly from single parents about their
3. SHORTCOMINGS OF THE CHILD MAINTENANCE SERVICE
25/07/2019 - Early Day Motions
Found: in single parent families are almost twice as likely to live in poverty as children in two-parent families;
4. Gingerbread - written evidence
10/10/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit cap - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: ad is the leading charity working with single parent families. We campaign against poverty, disadvantage
5. Gingerbread - written evidence
25/10/2017 - Inquiry: Universal Credit - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: ad is the leading charity working with single parent families. We campaign against poverty, disadvantage
1. Covid-19: Child Maintenance Service
21/01/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: of calls from across the Chamber, from One Parent Families Scotland and from Gingerbread, it is still - Speech Link
2. Family Law
11/06/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: maintenance from universal credit, if the paying parent has no income from employment. The new regulations - Speech Link
2: and charges—20% for the paying parent and 4% for the receiving parent—are set by the Child Maintenance - Speech Link
3: children. Child maintenance payments can be vital to families—especially those on low incomes—and to protecting - Speech Link
3. Low-income Families: Benefits Freeze
13/01/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: assessment they have made of the impact on low-income families of the four-year freeze in working age and children’s - Speech Link
2: which are, on average, nearly £400 this year for families with children. Those losses have contributed to - Speech Link
3: poverty and family breakdown, obviously there are families who have great difficulty fiscally, and we have - Speech Link
4. Child Maintenance Service
23/07/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: for an abusive paying parent to perpetuate their control over the receiving parent, thereby continuing - Speech Link
2: Pensions’ financial investigations unit that the paying parent did have additional unreported income, yet my constituent’s - Speech Link
5. Child Maintenance
06/11/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: want to. I do not think anyone here thinks that a parent should not pay for their child, but believe me - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Dr Rupa Huq MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6865.
Email: rupa.huq.mp@parliament.uk
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Single Parent Families APPG