Debates between Lord Harrington of Watford and Daniel Zeichner during the 2015-2017 Parliament

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Debate between Lord Harrington of Watford and Daniel Zeichner
Monday 21st November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions (Richard Harrington)
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I can reiterate the fact that plans to expand auto-enrolment are happening, and hundreds of thousands of people are signing up, which is a significant improvement. As for the self-employed and other people who are not in the scheme, that is just the sort of thing that we should be looking at in our 2017 review of automatic enrolment.

Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)
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T6. Given that the Department promised to increase the number of people supported by the Access to Work programme, will the Minister tell us why fewer people are now in receipt of Access to Work than in the last year of the previous Labour Government?

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