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General Committees
Draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) this uplift will see the achievement of one of our core pledges: for the national living wage to reach - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) hours they will work from week to week or month to month? - Speech Link
3: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) assumption that universal credit, like tax credits before it, was actually just subsidising a low-wage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) universal credit, because they work in sectors such as agriculture and tourism and their incomes are - Speech Link
2: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) It states that 55% of the people receiving universal credit in Wales ran out of food last month and could - Speech Link
3: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff Central) Some 900 permanent jobs would also be well on the way, adding a total of almost £400 million a year to - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) They receive 20% more funding per person than is received for comparable services in England. - Speech Link
5: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) to forget the lessons of history and make the same mistake again? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) element of universal credit, which will also give people a fighting chance to get the skills they need - Speech Link
2: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) on universal credit that take out budgeting advances from 12 months to 24 months is clearly helpful, - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) I very much hope that the campaign to make the household support fund permanent will be accepted by the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) raise business investment by around £20 billion per year in a decade’s time. - Speech Link
2: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) increasing universal credit and scrapping the two-child benefit limit. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) do at every Budget, to scrap the two-child limit on universal credit. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) orchestras permanent from 1 April 2025. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) A Conservative Government implemented the life-changing universal credit reforms so successfully being - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Lady must also accept, however, that that was not the design of universal credit that met such opposition - Speech Link
3: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) Universal credit has helped more people get into work, and work is always the best route out of poverty.Before - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) period from 12 to 24 months for those on universal credit who are forced to take out advanced budgeting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) On average, UK adults consume BBC services for around 17 hours per week, more than Netflix, Disney and - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) The repeal of this abominable legislation is long overdue and all credit is due to the Government. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We do not leave it up to Warner Bros, MGM or Universal to decide the age ratings of the films they produce - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
SEND Provision and Funding - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) In my Autism Spectrum Condition Resourced Provision class, we used to have three hours per week and now - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) It is to the Government’s great credit that high needs funding has since increased substantially, more - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) make sure that their needs are met.That is not a new issue this week, however. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) by, week by week; and it is the right thing to do. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) doctor’s report is received.All that takes place before the 20-week clock starts ticking, and in four - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) As a result, those will be eligible for a 5% uplift to a 39% credit rate. - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) We have made huge strides on simplifying it for people on universal credit, making every extra hour of - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) permanent, declines to give the Bill a Second Reading because it fails to make a much-needed reduction - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) to cover 30 hours per week next year, that would equate to £17,000 to £18,000, rather than remaining - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) The changes in policy—particularly universal credit and really good childcare offers—have transformed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The JRF recommended that universal credit should have what it called an “essentials guarantee” to ensure - Speech Link
2: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) The defunding of universal credit over the years has widened the gulf between the affluent and the destitute - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) They will benefit from our approach to universal credit and other benefits, 1.6 million households will - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It would mean that the rate of universal credit is set by an independent body which takes the cost of - Speech Link
5: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We will be spending £30 billion on universal credit in the next five years—a 40% increase. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) which is why we are increasing universal credit and other benefits by 6.7% from next April in line with - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) If a claimant does not accept those new conditions without good reason, their universal credit claim - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) That rule was there pre-universal credit, and it is right, so I am not sure how it will cost £10 million - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) day and week to week. - Speech Link
5: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) claim that the sanctions they intend to apply in cutting off universal credit to the poor will not be - Speech Link