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Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) children lived in relative poverty in 2023, according to data published by the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government have since taken firm action to support those on the lowest incomes, including through uprating - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Welcome as it is, benefits uprating is really the minimum we should be expecting. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Having said that, perhaps I can reassure the noble Baroness that my Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link


Written Statements
Households Below Average Income: Statistics Release - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) The Department for Work and Pensions has today published its annual statistics on incomes and living - Speech Link


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) number to be.We estimate that three million workers will receive a direct pay rise as a result of this uprating - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Member for New Forest West, who sits on the Work and Pensions Committee, to have a look at that, because - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) British Pensioners recently, and I fear that another scandal is about to break in the form of frozen pensions - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Health and Social Care, but some of the issues she raises will fall to the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) will know that I welcome the support the Government have given to pensioners, with an 8.5% increase in pensions - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The triple lock and uprating of the state pension by 8.5% from April this year will protect pensioner - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will make sure that the Department for Work and Pensions has heard the hon. Lady’s concerns. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) significant.The steps made through such measures as the removal of a lifetime limit on pension saving and the uprating - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) Health and pensions will receive £176.2 billion and £124.3 billion respectively this year. - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) Pensioners rightly had a 10% rise in their pensions last year. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We have announced increasing funding to the NHS and we are uprating state pensions by 8.5% this year, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) As a former Pensions Minister, I know the impact that such modernisation has had on the state pension - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Friend, the Chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, for raising that important and, I might say, - Speech Link
3: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Ind - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Is it not a fact that Department for Work and Pensions policies that keep families in poverty, including - Speech Link
4: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) triple lock means that the state pension will be uprated by 8.5% from April, building on the 10.1% uprating - Speech Link
5: Yvonne Fovargue (Lab - Makerfield) The Department for Work and Pensions looks after deductions from universal credit, and rent arrears are - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security (Contributions) (Limits and Thresholds, National Insurance Funds Payments and Extension of Veterans Relief) Regulations 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) national insurance contributions are paid into the National Insurance Fund, which is used to pay state pensions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Even allowing for this uprating, child benefit needs to rise by 25% to restore its real value.I can remember - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It means that most state pensions will gain value relative to that increase. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) First, a lot of the coverage of this increase said that state pensions would be increased by 8.5%. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) pension credit and the higher rate of widows’ and widowers’ pensions in industrial death benefit. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Maintenance Service - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I congratulate the Chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) I congratulate the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, the right hon. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) I congratulate the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, the right hon. - Speech Link
4: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) I am grateful to my colleague on the Work and Pensions Committee. - Speech Link
5: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I note that the secondary legislation he refers to is regarding automatic uprating of particular indicators - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Most schemes provided pensions above this set minimum, with many providing pensions that were significantly - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Have the Government taken any action on the pensions gender gap? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) First, I think I mostly followed the question about how much is the total benefit of uprating between - Speech Link
4: None department will write once again to over 11 million pensioners as part of the annual state pension uprating - Speech Link