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Written Question

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Tuesday 8th April 2014

Asked by: Baroness Clark of Kilwinning (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for a decision for a reconsideration of an employment and support allowance decision has been since 28 October 2013.

Answered by Mike Penning

While mandatory reconsideration data is being collected, it is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available.

The Department is looking into what can be published. The data will need to be validated in order to ensure that it satisfies the relevant standards.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Feb 2014
Welfare Reform (Sick and Disabled People)

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Dr Whiteford), who always makes very informed contributions on this subject.

This is the third time this week we have debated issues to do with benefits. In all these debates, the position of people with disabilities should …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2014
Housing Benefit

"My hon. Friend’s constituency is similar to mine. Is it her experience that the people who come to see her about the bedroom tax are disproportionately the disabled and carers, and does she agree that it is particularly distressing for those groups?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2014
Housing Benefit

"Does the hon. Lady agree that the real problem is that we do not have enough social housing?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to say a few words. I will be speaking against the orders, but I am not suggesting that we should vote against them because of course, if we were to do so, the pitiful increases that some people will receive as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"Obviously the Minister is aware that the range of factors taken into account has been smaller every year since the change was brought in. I oppose the orders not necessarily because they do or do not include housing costs—I understand the point he makes; he has made it before and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"As the hon. Gentleman will appreciate, I am focusing on the change from RPI to CPI. He will be aware that in the last Parliament I strongly advocated a return to the link with earnings. However the reality, as he well knows, was that even though Labour did not reinstate …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"Surely the Minister accepts that benefit increases are at least in part about social justice. Since 2010 we have seen this Government take a range of steps that have increased inequality in this country. Surely he must accept that choosing CPI simply because it seems to be a smaller amount …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Pensions and Benefits Uprating

"Does the Minister not accept the point that has been made in a number of debates in recent years, which is that the inflation that the poorest experience, and indeed that pensioners experience, is far higher than CPI?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jan 2014
Welfare Reforms and Poverty

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley). I congratulate all those who signed the motion and did the work to secure this debate, because I think that a commission of inquiry should be established to investigate the impact of the Government’s welfare …..."
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