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Commons Chamber
Cost of Living Increases: Pensioners - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) The poverty we are now facing is so desperate and severe, and the destitution so acute, and it is felt - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) produced by the Disability Benefits Consortium. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (CON - Broadland) , income-based jobseekers’ allowance, income-related employment and support allowance or universal credit.We - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) the Minister’s attention before the issue of people with the least money paying the most—the poverty premiumand - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) People on legacy benefits with severe disabilities are most likely to get employment and support allowance - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (LAB - Bradford South) She was in receipt of income support and the severe disability premium, but her child is now aged five - Speech Link
3: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) As a general point, to support claimants previously entitled to the severe disability premium who moved - Speech Link
4: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) To support claimants previously entitled to the severe disability premium who moved to universal credit - Speech Link
5: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) with a severe disability premium. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) disability provider; and £5 million for the children’s A&E at the Royal Stoke—a hospital built by - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) improve people’s earnings and employment opportunities. - Speech Link
3: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) capacity concert area, leisure facilities and other employment opportunities, and is due to open its - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) For a Government who talk a good game on levelling up, it seems that our premium spirit is indeed missing - Speech Link
5: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) loved ones and receive either carer’s allowance or the caring element of universal credit? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Thu 28 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) employment disaster. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) will be a rise in under-employment and a subsequent squeeze on wages. - Speech Link
3: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) for significant to severe. - Speech Link
4: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) Any movement on those fronts would be welcome: they would not only support employment and reduce the - Speech Link
5: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) the best possible economic and employment benefits for the country. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) They work as a package and therefore I support them. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) That amounts to around 2.1 million poor pensioners, with over 1 million of those living in severe poverty - Speech Link
3: None As so often, the poor end up paying more, and the “poverty premium” on energy is really marked. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) Where the younger partner is unable to work because of disability or caring requirements, they may qualify - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Working People’s Finances: Government Policy - Tue 21 Sep 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The self-employment income support scheme has provided £27 billion to almost 3 million people. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) the self-employment income support scheme—for people who were lucky enough to be eligible for that scheme - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) It is creating employment and changing lives. - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) nurses, hairdressers, decorators, plumbers, brickies, care workers—all those who are now facing the severe - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Food Poverty - Mon 24 May 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) However, there has unfortunately been severe disruption on the east coast main line between Newcastle - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) Talke area, and the uplift of standard universal credit weekly allowance by £20, which has been extended - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) “mental health problems, cognitive disability, overweight and obesity, and longstanding illness.”In 2014 - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (CON - Broadland) low pay in employment. - Speech Link
5: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) Our weighted national funding formula and the £2.5 billion spent annually on pupil premium funds academic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 17 May 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) really still committed to reducing the disability employment gap? - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) We need a comprehensive employment Bill that provides employment rights and a major training and retraining - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) There are severe difficulties. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Browning (CON - Life peer) payment, or PIP, and employment and support allowance, or ESA. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
A Brighter Future for the Next Generation - Thu 13 May 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) disability when I was children’s Minister; the formulation and growth of family hubs—again, I welcome - Speech Link
2: Anne Marie Morris (CON - Newton Abbot) Clearly the north needs help, but levels of deprivation are as severe in the south-west as they are in - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) the declaration of a climate emergency; the retention of the education maintenance allowance; a new, - Speech Link
4: David Johnston (CON - Wantage) we saw those disparities across education and employment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 12 May 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) The recovery premium will be allocated to schools based on disadvantage funding eligibility and the expansion - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) The Loyal Address of 2019 said that an employment Bill would provide“better support for working families - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) Keeping them on life support with employment subsidies and soft loans will act as a drag on the economy - Speech Link
4: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) Teachers are at a premium. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Grey-Thompson (CB - Life peer) noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin, and his disability commission. - Speech Link