Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Bill Esterson and Chloe Smith

Monday 13th December 2021 Commons Chamber

[Chloe Smith]

I am happy to meet the hon. Lady, who, as a relatively new member of the House, I can see is getting stuck into casework. I welcome her hard work in doing so. The design of universal credit has concentrated support on the most severely disabled. That can be taken in alignment with other points that I have made, including on the support available through the national disability strategy and the ideas put forward in our health and disability Green Paper, as well as the many other things that the Department is doing. I hope that they may be of some support and help to her constituent.

[Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)]

20. What assessment she has made of the potential effect of her Department’s employment schemes on labour market shortages.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Bill Esterson and Chloe Smith

Thursday 27th February 2020 Commons Chamber

[Chloe Smith]

My hon. Friend has clearly already got himself into the detail of the Department in the most admirable way, which is what we would expect from the new Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. He is right that this legislation is pressing and that behind it sits a very large programme being delivered by the UK Statistics Authority, with which I work closely. We will bring forward the order shortly to Parliament, and I look forward to its scrutiny in this place so that we can have a successful census in 2021.

[Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)]

T5. Was Andrew Sabisky recruited to work on the defence and security review that the Prime Minister announced yesterday?