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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Does the Minister accept that raising the universal credit basic rate is critical to tackling child poverty - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) As a result of our work capability assessment reforms, the Office for Budget Responsibility has scored - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) My constituent’s universal credit payments have been stopped over Christmas for two years running, because - Speech Link
4: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) The way that universal credit works means that work coaches can use their flexibility, but if a payment - Speech Link
5: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) period rules for universal credit. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Living Standards - Thu 01 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) It started with the credit crunch and the global financial crash. - Speech Link
2: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) We will also look to reform things like work capability processes—I have raised that on a number of occasions - Speech Link
3: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) credit will gain an average of £470—almost £500—in the ’24-25 financial year.We are maintaining the - Speech Link
4: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) The speech he just gave was so good that I think he even believed some of that glowing assessment of - 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) We know that, over this last year, overpayments to capital fraud and error in universal credit alone - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) on a cross-channel basis will be advised by their lawyers to move their data processing capability into - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Society is witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in the capability and reach of surveillance technologies - Speech Link
4: 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


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) his local community and this sector, which is very important to the United Kingdom and our sovereign capability - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) All credit goes to the RAF, for some of the pioneering work it has done, and to the Virgin-led coalition - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) Leicestershire have unfortunately often taken two years to complete the education, health and care needs assessment - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) the autumn statement, those on housing allowance will be receiving an extra £800 on average, those on universal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) We do not agree with that assessment of the Government of Rwanda. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) through that.We have a major problem with detention in this country, which includes a lack of detention capability - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) This year is the 75th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. - Speech Link
4: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) We need to erode our asylum backlog and I give full credit to my right hon. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) First, let us give credit where credit is due. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) We should seek to create solutions that build relationship capability and resilience. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) I cannot take any credit for the report itself, but I am delighted to be involved in that work. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) On inception, the policy had two clear intentions: first, to make universal credit fairer and more affordable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of availability of dentistry appointments - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Trussell Trust joint campaign with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation calling for an essentials guarantee in universal - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost of living on mental - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) capability assessment activities and descriptors consultation will mean that if they are reassessed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Report stage - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) credit, working tax credit, child tax credit, child benefit, pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) credit and all the others. - Speech Link
3: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) , universal credit, child benefit and others whose bank accounts—millions of bank accounts—they will - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) interoperability, different sectors will have different levels of existing digital infrastructure and capability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The JRF recommended that universal credit should have what it called an “essentials guarantee” to ensure - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) They will benefit from our approach to universal credit and other benefits, 1.6 million households will - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It would mean that the rate of universal credit is set by an independent body which takes the cost of - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We will be spending £30 billion on universal credit in the next five years—a 40% increase. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) What assessment have the Government made of how many new jobs could be created in the self-driving vehicle - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) say, about the budget and what liaison there is with other countries.The Government deserve enormous credit - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They ought to have access to universal information.Data will be important. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Vehicles with automated systems will be subject to detailed technical cybersecurity assessment as part - Speech Link