Mentions:
1: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) for the financial year ending 2026, were published on Thursday 14 May 2026, at 9.30 am.Universal credit - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pat McFadden (Lab - Wolverhampton South East) A young person under the age of 25 who is on the health element of universal credit is now less likely - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Over 8 million people are claiming universal credit, almost 4 million people are claiming sickness benefits - Speech Link
3: Oliver Ryan (LAB - Burnley) They built universal credit in a way that actively penalised people for trying—where taking on a few - Speech Link
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1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Universal credit is modernising the social security system, improving value for money for taxpayers - Speech Link
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1: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) The Chancellor deserves credit for recognising and emphasising this. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gill (Lab - Life peer) The Government deserve credit for recognising that Britain cannot prosper through isolation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) We are still waiting for an investigation into the 1991 closure of the fraud-ridden Bank of Credit and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) I have been truly concerned with the Government’s love fest with private credit, which we saw during - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) credit and prevent those who are not British citizens accessing so much welfare. - Speech Link
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1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Millions of people and thousands of small businesses are locked out of affordable credit and forced into - Speech Link
2: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) It is time to be bold and to consider the merits of a universal basic income. - Speech Link
3: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) Children have been lifted out of poverty and families have been supported through the Universal Credit - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West) Leader of the Opposition, who is no longer in her place, said that 1.5 million extra people were on universal - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Can the Prime Minister tell us how many more people are out of work and claiming universal credit since - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) The Prime Minister does not want to say how many more people are out of work and claiming universal credit - Speech Link
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1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) We have expanded free school meals to children in all families receiving universal credit, and we have - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) As she knows, from this month we have got rid of the two-child limit in universal credit, which is lifting - Speech Link
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1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) We are rebalancing universal credit to incentivise people to work, rather than encouraging inactivity - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pat McFadden (Lab - Wolverhampton South East) If it is someone who has been unemployed and on universal credit for six months, there is the potential - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) People claiming universal credit, new style employment support allowance and personal independence payment - Speech Link
3: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Under the Secretary of State’s Government, over a million more people have gone on to universal credit - Speech Link
4: Pat McFadden (Lab - Wolverhampton South East) It is the Labour Government who are reforming welfare, including the changes in universal credit this - Speech Link
5: Rupert Lowe (RB - Great Yarmouth) A staggering £10.1 billion of the £61.2 billion spent on universal credit in 2024 was gifted to foreign - Speech Link