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Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Tugendhat (CON - Life peer) Therefore, it is vital that the Chancellor fulfils his intention to make full capital expensing a permanent - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I certainly agree with the noble Lord in his disappointment about universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) to be delivered to households across the country.The noble Lord, Lord Bird, asked for universal credit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Thu 16 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) offer to enable more people on universal credit to see a work coach in a youth hub or to benefit from - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) As the Secretary of State explained, allowing the costs to be paid up front from universal credit and - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) the costs where it matters.We need to see a proper increase in universal credit. - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) increase in the universal credit childcare cap and aspects of the White Paper. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Wed 15 Mar 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) The universal credit system must help people into employment, and childcare is a huge barrier to that - Speech Link
2: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) To add more brutal sanctions on to universal credit claimants was probably rather unconscionable, given - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) and Pensions, where we saw so many challenges with the introduction of universal credit and wanted to - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) people with up-front childcare costs when they are on universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) credit uplift or address the two-child limit. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Single-Parent Families - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) That includes increasing the Scottish child payment by 150% to £25 per week per child. - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) child payment of £25 a week, but when the UK Government take away that extra £20 universal credit uplift - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) That is why I will not tire of calling on the Government to reinstate the universal credit uplift, and - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) worse off per month under universal credit compared with the legacy system, which equates to a drop of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) We know that when the £20 universal credit uplift was in place during covid, food bank use went down. - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) the hourly national minimum wage per week. - Speech Link
3: None universal credit uplift and increasing it to £25 per week. - Speech Link
4: None Alongside colleagues from across the House, I have campaigned hard to retain the £20 uplift to universal - Speech Link
5: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) If the Government wanted to make a real difference, they could reintroduce the uplift to universal credit - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme Anniversary - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) arriving on the Ukrainian family scheme to support people waiting for their first universal credit payment - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) for many families to be more permanent. - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (LAB - Liverpool, Wavertree) would not be able to claim their housing costs under universal credit. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 21 Feb 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) for universal credit, which provided 1.7 million families with, on average, an additional £1,000 per - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) universal credit IT system? - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) like the benefit cap, the two-child policy and cuts to universal credit, to name just a few. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Budget Bill
2nd reading: Part 2 - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) blocked by those who are afraid to make the argument to their voters. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Those six orders were exceptional measures to introduce the welfare reform that involved universal credit—Stormont - Speech Link
3: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) Province’s lowest-earning households, with an average annual income of £12,200, had just £29 per week - Speech Link
4: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (LAB - Life peer) Barnett formula, which I had to live with for 20 years as a Minister for Wales and for Northern Ireland - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security and Pensions - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Nigel Mills (CON - Amber Valley) Given that we managed to get the £20 universal credit uplift through in a matter of weeks, I really cannot - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) £20 universal credit uplift was in place. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) in food bank use was when universal credit had its £20 uplift. - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) uplift to universal credit and legacy benefits.Universal credit may not meet a claimant’s needs in full - Speech Link
5: Guy Opperman (CON - Hexham) I am proud to make the case for universal credit, unlike the Labour party. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Benefit Sanctions - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) Universal credit is the last line of the social security safety net. - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) of the £20 UC uplift and its extension to those on legacy benefits, the ending of the five-week waiting - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) We have moved away from the national insurance supplementary benefit scheme to universal credit. - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Sanctions combined with deductions from universal credit mean that almost £2 billion per annum is snatched - Speech Link