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Commons Chamber
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) living wage, cutting tax for those on universal credit, and just in the last couple of weeks, the biggest - Speech Link
2: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) That means 20% cuts to the NHS, to welfare and to our Scottish Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) That is all before we factor in the cruel cut to universal credit or this year’s inflation rate—so no - Speech Link
4: Miriam Cates (CON - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) has the ability to inspire, to uplift - Speech Link
5: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) So they do not deserve any credit. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) action to alleviate the problem, in order to ensure that there are homes for the permanent populations - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) The problem is not second homes and short-term holiday lets per se; as the hon. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) real terms between that year and 2019-20, from £41 billion to £26 billion in 2019-20 prices.We therefore - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) it wants to ensure that every new development needs to be 100% for permanent occupancy. - Speech Link
5: Marcus Jones (CON - Nuneaton) I will miss the conversations that I have had week on week with my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Even during the pandemic, with the £20-a-week uplift to universal credit, our support was the least generous - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) Members will refer to this, but the refusal to keep the universal credit uplift has taken away £20 a - Speech Link
3: Karen Buck (LAB - Westminster North) temporarily by the pandemic universal credit uplift, which of course did not apply to legacy benefits - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) Others have referred to the five-week wait for universal credit payments. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Delivery of Public Services - Tue 28 Jun 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) In fact, trade through Holyhead is down 34% as a permanent feature. - Speech Link
2: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) to the backlogs; they have proposed staffing cuts of 20%. - Speech Link
3: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) It is a result of removing the universal credit uplift. - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) the same Department on the average online journal response time for universal credit claimants:“Universal - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) universal credit and the taper rate, the increased national living wage and the higher national insurance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill
3rd reading - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) The welcome universal credit uplift during the worst of the pandemic did not include any uplift in the - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) It fails to reinstate the £20-per-week universal credit cut, which would have provided households on - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) and millions of people were flowing on to benefits, they had to add £20 a week to universal credit because - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) , Lord Fox, asked whether the Government were wrong to reduce the £20 uplift to universal credit. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) As that comes on top of last October’s £20-a-week cut in universal credit, that family’s standard of - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) to make an additional £25 a week uplift to universal credit and to extend that to all legacy benefits - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) announced in this Bill we would like the £20 uplift to universal credit restored. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) cutting Transport for the North’s budget by 20%. - Speech Link
2: William Cash (CON - Stone) that the project will be subject to 20 substantive amendments, including the removal of the Golborne - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) to a permanent solution that would benefit the people of Tameside and east Manchester for generations - Speech Link
4: Robert Largan (CON - High Peak) The second was to try to make the right hon. - Speech Link
5: James Grundy (CON - Leigh) I give credit to the hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Basic Income - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) We already have the tapers in place for the universal credit system, which has markers to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) I propose the reinstatement of the £20 universal credit uplift, and that benefits and wages be inflation-proofed - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) Universal credit is a dynamic benefit that reflects people’s needs from month to month. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
2nd reading - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) It was therefore a hammer blow when, last year, the Government callously slashed universal credit by - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) to“provision to make the regime for pavement licences…permanent”.This goes back to what I said earlier - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) to make the bills work, finding that there is too much week or too much month left at the end for their - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Price Inflation - Thu 19 May 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) This week they have fallen to about £620 per tonne—it was £290 per tonne a year ago. - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) , the reintroduction of the universal credit uplift, a reversal of the national insurance hike and an - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) of a tapered reduction in universal credit; it always pays people to work more hours and take on more - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) My weekly shop amount has already jumped from under £50 per week to £75 a week… I am finding it virtually - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) again about raising national insurance, cutting universal credit and putting a windfall tax on the oil - Speech Link