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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I asked the right hon. Lady a simple question, but I fear that she does not know the answer; she certainly did not reply to it. What is clear is that Labour wants to spend more on welfare. So do the Liberal Democrats, and so does Reform. Only one party …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the right hon. Lady back after the summer. She said recently that it had been “a bumpy…few months”—an understatement, in my view. Last time we stood here, she had just completed a rather humiliating climbdown on her welfare savings plans. She set out to save money, but ended …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is good to see you back after the summer recess.

The hon. Lady can fling around the stats all she likes, but the facts are clear and bleak. Under her watch, youth unemployment has gone up; nearly a million young people, and rising, are not …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"My hon. Friend makes an important and thoughtful point. Many families, whether they are living off benefits or in work, would like to have more children but have to make these difficult choices about what they can afford. This is a point about fairness.

I know that many Labour Members …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"I could not put it better than my right hon. Friend.

We know that bringing up children is expensive and important. When working couples have to make tough decisions about whether they can afford to start a family in the first place, they should not be made to pay more …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"I beg to move,

That this House believes the two-child benefit cap should remain in place and that households with a third or subsequent child born from 6 April 2017 claiming Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit should not receive additional funding, because those who receive benefits should make the …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"I do not agree with the hon. Member. I am going to talk about poverty in a moment, so if he will just hold on, he will hear my view on that point.

This is a ticking time bomb. If we do not solve this problem, our economy will collapse, …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"I will first make a little progress, but then I will be happy to give way to the hon. Lady.

Last week’s welfare fiasco saw a Bill that was meant to save money become a Bill that will cost money. We have also seen the fiasco of the winter fuel …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"My hon. Friend makes an important point about the problem of a welfare trap, where people would better be better off on benefits than working full time on the minimum wage...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"If I could take the hon. Lady back a bit, she might remember when we came into office in 2010, and we had to bring down the deficit year after year to get the country’s finances under control.

Giving children the best start in life is not as simple as …..."

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