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Commons Chamber
Statutory Sick Pay and Protection for Workers - Wed 18 Mar 2020
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) They are not allowed to claim ESA or universal credit at all. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) That is where universal credit needs to be changed. - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) Universal credit is not enough. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Universal credit is no substitute, as my right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit: Delayed Roll-Out - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) Are there improvements that we can make to universal credit? - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) Universal credit is a massive improvement. - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) The previous system has been described as clunky and confusing, as leading to overpayments and therefore - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) Their answer was immediate and unequivocal—universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) However, universal credit is an evolving process. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Services - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Members’ attention to the Child Poverty Action Group report on Tower Hamlets and universal credit, which - Speech Link
2: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) It would own up to and put right the mess they have made of universal credit, and it would offer a targeted - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) I have no problem with universal credit simplifying the benefits system and I want a system with a taper - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) There is nothing on universal credit. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
High-income Child Benefit Charge - Tue 03 Sep 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) There is now some relief for mortgage interest at the bottom part of the tax return, by way of a credit - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) personal independence payments, employment and support allowance, community care grants or pension credit—all - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) In doing so, it sets the scene for universal credit, which also removes independence by treating people - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) the Minister’s Department did not seem to want to take responsibility for the clawing back of alleged overpayments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Jul 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) The cuts to legal aid affect people such as Marcus, a 71-year-old on pension credit, a leaseholder who - Speech Link
2: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Will she use what time and authority she has left in office to look at fixing universal credit, funding - Speech Link
3: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) As he will know, I believe that universal credit is a better system than the legacy system we inherited - Speech Link
4: Mary Glindon (LAB - North Tyneside) Commercial Services Union, are not only being denied the money they are owed, but are making monthly pension overpayments - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) armistice of the great war, 100 years of women’s suffrage, 70 years of the NHS, the treaty of Rome and the universal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit Fraud - Wed 10 Jul 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) Universal credit is now in all jobcentres, with around 2 million people claiming this benefit. - Speech Link
2: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) As a Government, we take the issue of fraud, error and overpayments seriously. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) Ministers have made one monumental misjudgment after another with universal credit. - Speech Link
4: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) By delivering through universal credit we can get support to the people who need it. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions - Tue 02 Jul 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Credit, work pays.The recent decision to remove the two-child limit under Universal Credit for those - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) credit, we can see that universal credit has been rolled out in a slow, progressive manner, and we have - Speech Link
3: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Advance the first payment of universal credit and stop the cycle of hardship. - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) We know that about 20% of people seek help when claiming universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) By removing the cliff edges, universal credit ensures that work always pays. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 01 Jul 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) What progress her Department has made on rolling out universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Amber Rudd (IND - Hastings and Rye) The national roll-out of universal credit was completed in December 2018. - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Universal credit was rolled out in my area last year. - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) That is why our focus is on universal credit. - Speech Link
5: Amber Rudd (IND - Hastings and Rye) I know that there have been concerns across the House about how overpayments of benefits that result - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Breathing Space Scheme: Consultation Response - Wed 19 Jun 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) In addition, it is incontestable that the introduction of universal credit is causing strain and stress - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) credit advances and third-party deductions from universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) It makes sense to have eligibility for small traders up to the VAT limit.On universal credit, any overpayments - Speech Link
4: Lord McKenzie of Luton (LAB - Life peer) He touched upon the issue of overpayments of social security, whether through universal credit or otherwise - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) Likewise, if they have been overpaid universal credit and it is being docked because that is being paid - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breathing Space Scheme - Wed 19 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Reclaimed overpayments—for example, from universal credit—will be included in the scheme. - Speech Link
2: Heidi Allen (LDEM - South Cambridgeshire) The five-week universal credit wait is a big issue. - Speech Link
3: Ruth George (LAB - High Peak) As I set out in a recent Westminster Hall debate, the amounts being deducted from universal credit are - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Universal credit over- payments will be included from day one. - Speech Link