Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Jonathan Evans Excerpts
Wednesday 28th November 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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The Government are making available transitional funds to help people who have made significant adaptations to their homes in order to cope with serious disability—exactly the circumstances the hon. Gentleman describes—because we recognise that there is a vulnerability and we want to protect those people.

Jonathan Evans Portrait Jonathan Evans (Cardiff North) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend recognise that the housing benefit budget in this country is £23 billion and that 5 million receive it? With a budget of that size, surely it is appropriate that the Government are demonstrating to the taxpayer that they are working to get value for money.

Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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My hon. Friend is exactly right, but our reforms are based not just on the need to achieve value for money for the taxpayer. Underpinning our welfare reforms is the need to elevate the principle of making work pay and to ensure much greater fairness in the way our welfare system is delivered.