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Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We should also explore things such as the minimum income guarantee and universal basic income. - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) We spend another £685 million to support carers receiving universal credit through the carer element.As - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Paragraph 20 says:“The VEP Service receives the same information Universal Credit…receives from HMRC… - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Around 100,000 carers receive that as part of their pension credit award. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) , universal credit and the employment and support allowance—are in scope. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) Maybe it is easier now under universal credit—I hope my noble friend the Minister will be able to tell - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) credit, pension credit and employment support allowance. - Speech Link
4: None The relevant benefits are: attendance allowance, DLA, income support universal credit, housing benefit - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) There are also challenges with universal credit when not everyone is not working, and there may be different - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) For some parents, child tax credit helps to fill the gap, yet when there is a relationship breakdown, - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) cannot be that complicated.Finally, will the Minister look at where child maintenance arrears sit in the universal - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) However, the CMS then did everything wrong: it took overpayments; it wrongly moved him to the collect - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) As of July 2023, 6.1 million people were claiming universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) These are: to boost incomes and reduce costs by ending the poverty premium; to reboot universal credit - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That will ensure that 1.6 million private renters in receipt of housing benefit or universal credit gain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) hard for me, and I feel my ancestors starting to shift uneasily in their graves, but I want to give credit - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) The Tories are absolutely clear that people can live on universal credit, despite all evidence to the - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) constituents, many of whom will have had calls from the Department for Work and Pensions when benefits overpayments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) access innovative services to manage their finances and spending, track their carbon footprint or access credit - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) These include state pensions and universal credit, but they also include other benefits—working tax credit - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) its fraud plan how it plans to focus the new powers, which in the first instance will be on fraud in universal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Credit - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) proposal from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust for an ‘Essentials Guarantee’ in Universal - Speech Link
2: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I remind the Minister that, of the 6.2 million people on universal credit, 38% are in full-time - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) credit, which pointed out the injustice of people who moved on to universal credit and who received - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Citizens’ Rights (European Affairs Committee Report) - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (CB - Excepted Hereditary) State’s full powers of discretion to waive benefit debts has not been used, including in respect of universal - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) answers the questions posed by the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull.Turning briefly to the question of the DWP overpayments - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Credit Deductions - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) , including tax credit overpayments, often take people by surprise because they are historical or are - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) receiving universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) credit advance payments, overpayments and budgeting loans.I want to draw attention to several factors - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None 2019-21, Universal Credit: the wait for a first payment, HC 204.] - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) That includes universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) Has universal credit really delivered all that was promised? - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Some universal credit claimants can apply to have the housing elements of their universal credit paid - Speech Link
5: Guy Opperman (CON - Hexham) According to the latest national statistics, it has fallen to 3.6% from 4%, and overpayments from fraud - Speech Link