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Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
Committee of the whole HouseCommittee of the Whole House - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None for those whose qualification for these benefits is incapacity or disability deriving from less severe - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) When one in five people receiving universal credit and disability benefits has used a food bank in the - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Those who receive the universal credit health premium at the moment will be fully protected, and once - Speech Link
4: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) One in five people on universal credit and disability benefits have used a food bank in the past month - Speech Link
5: None disability premium or enhanced disability premium specified in Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the Employment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) We can bandy around the distinction regarding the superior landlord with the offshore pension fund and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) As I stated in Committee, “premium” is already commonly understood to include any insurance premium tax - Speech Link
3: None We have pledged to work with the disability sector to raise awareness of disabled tenants’ rights and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) If you are on benefits, you are 60% more likely to be asked; if you have a disability, it is 20%. - Speech Link
5: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) For many of them, it is a substitute pension, and many of them have mortgages on these homes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
2nd reading - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) , which will be co-produced with disability groups, as I understand it. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Health and disability benefits were £40 billion before covid. - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) I grew up with a sister who has a learning disability. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
5: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
6: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
7: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
8: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
9: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability. - Speech Link
10: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) ;(ii) the personal allowance, support component, severe disability premium or enhanced disability premium - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 01 Jul 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) that if the Government today pass their disgraceful, discriminatory and, some say, illegal cuts to disability - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) poverty, including with the fair repayment rate, which lowers the cap on deductions in universal credit - Speech Link
3: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) The additional costs of living in these communities—known as the rural premium—exacerbate hardship. - Speech Link
4: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) She will have seen the increases in the state pension in April. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None This amendment and my other amendment to clause 85 remove unnecessary references to a payment or credit - Speech Link
2: None According to estimates by Scope and other disability charities, disabled households face additional costs - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As a basic, I presume that he will still be eligible for universal credit, albeit, as the noble Lord, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty: Glasgow North East - Tue 06 May 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Maureen Burke (Lab - Glasgow North East) In Glasgow North East, wages are lower, and the percentage of people with a disability is higher, than - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) The universal credit standard allowance is only £92.Most people agree that the essential basket is a - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) A maximum of 25% of someone’s universal credit standard allowance has been reduced to 15%. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Debt: It’s Time for Tough Decisions (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Fri 25 Apr 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) on the kindness of strangers and foreign investors, at a time when the world as a whole is under severe - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) It is in not only the pension funds but in sovereign wealth funds, FDI and a thousand other resources - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) I am unsure how stopping under-22s accessing universal credit incentivises more young people to work - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) The tax burden is on track to hit a record high in 2027-28.We should give credit where credit is due—the - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Come on, give me some credit! I join my hon. - Speech Link
3: Tessa Munt (LD - Wells and Mendip Hills) The special category mechanism was replaced with the severe health condition award, which means that - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) From April, councils can opt to charge a council tax premium of up to 100% on second homes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Spring Statement - Wed 26 Mar 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) The universal credit standard allowance will increase from £92 per week in 2025-26 to £106 per week by - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) to increased poverty, including severe poverty, and worsened health conditions. - Speech Link
3: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Friend knows, we set out in the Green Paper that we are consulting on a premium payment for the most - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welfare Reform - Tue 18 Mar 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) Three quarters of the people who claim universal credit and disability have gone without essential items - Speech Link
2: Natasha Irons (Lab - Croydon East) What reassurance can she provide to the one in five people in receipt of universal credit and disability - Speech Link
3: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability, who is reviewing universal credit, as we promised - Speech Link