Information between 14th March 2022 - 8th December 2024
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Parliamentary Debates |
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Business of the House
106 speeches (13,024 words) Thursday 25th May 2023 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) establishment of the diffuse mesothelioma payment scheme on 20 May 2013, the Conservative peer Lord Freud - Link to Speech |
Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
13 speeches (5,712 words) Monday 6th March 2023 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Freud, was decisive in making that happen. - Link to Speech 2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) noble Lord’s comments there and to remind ourselves, as we do need reminding, of my noble friend Lord Freud - Link to Speech |
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023
27 speeches (9,158 words) Wednesday 22nd February 2023 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Whatever one thinks of the cap—I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Freud, that it is an excrescence—at - Link to Speech |
Long Covid
45 speeches (18,643 words) Thursday 17th November 2022 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) satisfaction of knowing that they and their families will have financial support—thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Freud - Link to Speech |
Child Poverty Strategy
19 speeches (1,458 words) Monday 6th June 2022 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) My Lords, during the passage of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, my noble friend Lord Freud said that - Link to Speech |
Working Tax Credit and Universal Credit: Two-Child Limit
49 speeches (13,019 words) Thursday 21st April 2022 - Westminster Hall Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Karen Buck (LAB - Westminster North) The former DWP Minister, Lord Freud, speaking in the other place, said:“Currently, the benefit system - Link to Speech |
Universal Credit (EAC Report)
37 speeches (17,394 words) Wednesday 23rd March 2022 - Grand Committee Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Baroness Janke (LDEM - Life peer) I know from reading the book Clashing Agendas by the noble Lord, Lord Freud, about the pressures in place - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Thursday 10th October 2024
Formal Minutes - Work and Pensions Committee - Formal Minutes 2015-16 (complete session) Work and Pensions Committee Found: Lord Freud , Minister for Welfare Reform and Andrew Rhodes , Benefits Services Director, Department |
Thursday 10th October 2024
Formal Minutes - Work and Pensions Committee - Formal Minutes 2013-14 (complete session) Work and Pensions Committee Found: Universal Credit Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Lord Freud |
Thursday 10th October 2024
Formal Minutes - Work and Pensions Committee - Formal Minutes 2012-13 (complete session) Work and Pensions Committee Found: Universal Credit Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State, and Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare |
Thursday 10th October 2024
Formal Minutes - Work and Pensions Committee - Formal Minutes 2010-12 (complete session) Work and Pensions Committee Found: Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 budget Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform |
Wednesday 14th June 2023
Oral Evidence - Policy in Practice, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Social Security Advisory Committee, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and Social Metrics Commission Benefit levels in the UK - Work and Pensions Committee Found: The second part of it is then universal support, which Lord Freud and I were both very keen on implementing |
Wednesday 15th March 2023
Oral Evidence - University of Portsmouth, and Manchester Metropolitan University Plan for Jobs and employment support - Work and Pensions Committee Found: Q322 Nigel Mills: Do you think it has changed since Lord Freud said that? |
Thursday 23rd February 2023
Written Evidence - Mr John Sutton HAB0015 - Health assessments for benefits Health assessments for benefits - Work and Pensions Committee Found: No reference to the Reliably, Repeatedly and Safely statement by Lord Freud (see below). |
Thursday 24th March 2022
Written Evidence - Praevaleo Ltd t/a Michael Patterson EXA0048 - Exempt Accommodation Exempt Accommodation - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: for the reasons I have identified in my responses.In 2012, the then Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud |
Wednesday 21st July 2021
Inquiry Publications - Oral evidence - Sir Roger Gale MP; Bob Stewart MP; Adam Holloway MP Committee on Standards Found: the written evidence, you suggested that the findings of the Lords Commissioner in relation to Lord Freud |
Wednesday 21st July 2021
Inquiry Publications - Second Report - Mrs Natalie Elphicke, Sir Roger Gale, Adam Holloway, Bob Stewart, Theresa Villiers Committee on Standards Found: All the letters were also signed by Lord Freud, a Member of the House of Lords, whose conduct falls |
Wednesday 21st July 2021
Inquiry Publications - Written evidence relating to Mrs Natalie Elphicke, Sir Roger Gale, Adam Holloway, Bob Stewart, Theresa Villiers Committee on Standards Found: The Lord Freud Mrs Natalie Elphicke DBE MP 6 WE2: Letter of 20 November 2020 from [name redacted |
Monday 15th March 2021
Oral Evidence - Department for Work & Pensions, and Neil Couling (Senior Responsible Owner for Universal Credit at Department for Work and Pensions) Department for Work & Pensions, and Department for Work and Pensions Universal Credit: the wait for a first payment - Work and Pensions Committee Found: Lord Freud asked me 10 years ago, fiHow did it get like this? |
Wednesday 20th January 2021
Written Evidence - School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham DEG0140 - Disability employment gap Disability employment gap - Work and Pensions Committee Found: DOI: 10.1111/jar.12232.Lyons J (2014) Lord Freud says disabled workers don™t deserve minimum wage - but |
Friday 11th September 2020
Oral Evidence - 9 September 2020 Work and Pensions Committee Found: other side of the fence, I was very familiar with as I worked with the Secretary of State and Lord Freud |
Tuesday 7th July 2020
Oral Evidence - 1 July 2020 Universal Credit: the wait for a first payment - Work and Pensions Committee Found: We worked Lord Freud, myself and Baroness Stroud extensively on this parallel system. |
Friday 19th June 2020
Oral Evidence - 17 June 2020 Universal Credit: the wait for a first payment - Work and Pensions Committee Found: I would point out that when UC was originally being designed in Government, Lord Freud, who was the |
Friday 15th May 2020
Oral Evidence - Tony Wilson (Institute Director at Institute for Employment Studies), and Timewise Institute for Employment Studies, and Timewise The economics of Universal Credit - Economic Affairs Committee Found: I worked on the Freud review that Lord Freud led for the department way back in 2007. |
Thursday 2nd April 2020
Written Evidence - Marilyn Howard, and Women's Budget Group EUC0118 - The economics of Universal Credit The economics of Universal Credit - Economic Affairs Committee Found: government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719089/Example_of_a_UC_monthly_award_notice.pdf16 Lord Freud |
Wednesday 1st April 2020
Written Evidence - Taxpayers against Poverty EUC0111 - The economics of Universal Credit The economics of Universal Credit - Economic Affairs Committee Found: The noble Lord, Lord Freud, touched on the importance of maternal nutrition, and I should like to elaborate |
Monday 23rd March 2020
Written Evidence - Residential Landlords Association, and National Landlords Association EUC0050 - The economics of Universal Credit The economics of Universal Credit - Economic Affairs Committee Found: However, in response, the Minister at the time, Lord Freud, concluded that landlords simply had to accept |
Friday 13th March 2020
Oral Evidence - Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Baroness Stroud, and Stephen Brien (Former Expert Advisor at Department for Work and Pensions) Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Baroness Stroud, and Department for Work and Pensions The economics of Universal Credit - Economic Affairs Committee Found: At this stage, in light of the work Lord Freud and I did on how we deal with bigger irregular earners |
Parliamentary Research |
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How benefit levels are set - CBP-9498
Apr. 14 2022 Found: standards, for all the reasons that we recognise.24 For the Government, the then DWP Minister Lord Freud |
Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency |
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May. 31 2022
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards Source Page: List of ministers' interests Document: List of ministers' interests - December 2016 (PDF) Transparency Found: The Rt Hon Lord Freud, Minister of State !5. Charities Trustee, Jecda Foundation 7. |
May. 31 2022
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards Source Page: List of ministers' interests Document: List of ministers' interests - July 2016 (PDF) Transparency Found: The Rt Hon Lord Freud, Minister of State !5. Charities Trustee of Jecd a Foundation 7. |
May. 31 2022
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards Source Page: List of ministers' interests Document: List of ministers' interests - December 2015 (PDF) Transparency Found: employed: current client contract with The Go Partnership on behalf of NASDAQ The Rt Hon Lord Freud |
May. 31 2022
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards Source Page: List of ministers' interests Document: List of ministers' interests - October 2013 (PDF) Transparency Found: care Patron, Full of Life Patron, Queenies Christmas Charity Founder, If Chloe Can Lord Freud |
Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe) |
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Housing element of Universal Credit for 18-21 year olds
Tuesday 16th May 2017 This briefing provides an overview of the UK Government's policy of removing entitlement to the housing costs element of Universal Credit for some 18-21 year olds. It provides background to the policy and detail of the regulations implementing the change. It also provides information on the likely impact of the policy and how the Scottish Government is seeking to mitigate the impact View source webpage Found: Letter to Lord Freud, Minister of State for W elfare Reform. |