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Commons Chamber
Underpayment of Benefits: Compensation - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) Universal credit has helped to simplify it by putting benefits into a single bundle, but as the new Minister - Speech Link
2: Simon Baynes (CON - Clwyd South) The Resolution Foundation has praised it, and has praised universal credit for its resilience during - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) There are people who criticise universal credit, but, as I said earlier, it is a simplifying mechanism - Speech Link
4: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) credit uplift and perhaps a universal basic income so that the poorest do not continually fall through - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 16 Dec 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) £9.50 next year, and giving nearly 2 million families an extra £1,000 a year through our cut to the universal - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) recently raised the case of my constituent, Mr Lafferty, involving Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs maladministration - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Thu 16 Dec 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) total sum of £2.6 billion to the people who are owed that money due to the worst case of Government maladministration - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) They took the brunt of the universal credit uplift cut and did a sterling job.My constituency has also - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) We must praise them and give them the credit and support that they deserve.There are fantastic charities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 20 Sep 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) I must emphasise that the Bill does not extend to other benefits, including universal credit, where the - Speech Link
2: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) Although the temporary increase in universal credit has come to an end, surely the hon. - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) That is before we even come to the issue of the Department for Work and Pensions’ maladministration with - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) This cannot be the right time to take £20 a week away from everyone receiving universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) I think that 40% of universal credit claimants are in work. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) Friend for her remarkable work on universal credit during the pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) How many people in Wales in receipt of universal credit are in work. - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) I do worry about this cut to universal credit of £20 a week. - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) It was always a temporary uplift to universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) However, universal credit is a policy reserved to the UK Government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) credit, hitting working families yet again. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Lady referred to the uplift in universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Worse, it is a universal credit debt that the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted was caused - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 21 Jul 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) judgment from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman yesterday, which judged that there was “maladministration - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly and I have made a call that the £20 a week cut in universal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Report stage:Report: 1st sitting - Wed 01 Jul 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) it, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I think it is much more important than any of us ever properly give it credit - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (CON - Harrogate and Knaresborough) further investment in research and development, specifically the increase in the R&D expenditure credit - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) £180,000 to £250,000-plus, or rent payments of £650 to £1,000-plus per month are forced to apply for universal - Speech Link
4: None There are aggressive letters, maladministration, and, for this constituent, health issues. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Services - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Members’ attention to the Child Poverty Action Group report on Tower Hamlets and universal credit, which - Speech Link
2: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) It would own up to and put right the mess they have made of universal credit, and it would offer a targeted - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) I have no problem with universal credit simplifying the benefits system and I want a system with a taper - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) There is nothing on universal credit. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Mar 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Amber Rudd (IND - Hastings and Rye) Gentleman to engage with the change that is universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Chris Ruane (LAB - Vale of Clwyd) In 2017, universal credit was introduced. - Speech Link
3: Alok Sharma (CON - Reading West) Any claimant may claim universal credit by telephone. - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) Quite apart from the problems with and maladministration of work capability and PIP assessments, I have - Speech Link
5: Alok Sharma (CON - Reading West) The universal credit claimant survey published last year showed that, under universal credit, the likelihood - Speech Link