Welfare

Craig Williams Excerpts
Monday 21st March 2016

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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The changes to ESA have been debated at length in this House on numerous occasions, and Members have had an opportunity to vote on them. I will of course look at the other issues that the hon. Gentleman mentions and will be in touch with him.

Craig Williams Portrait Craig Williams (Cardiff North) (Con)
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I welcome my right hon. Friend to his new position. I can think of no Member of this House who could bring any more compassion and empathy to this new role, given his personal life experience. Does he agree that a fair welfare system should not just be about numbers?

Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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It is about human beings, as I said in my statement. All the statistics that we talk about in this place have lives, families and individuals behind them, but it is especially important in the area of welfare and disability to remember that we are talking about human beings.