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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Apr 2014
Sanctioning of Benefit Recipients

"Absolutely; I agree. If the purpose of a sanction is to give somebody a bit of a shock—to say, “Look, you need to comply with the things that the Department is asking you to do”—then it does not need to be four weeks long, a year long, or three years …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Apr 2014
Sanctioning of Benefit Recipients

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Apr 2014
Incapacity Benefit Migration

"I am very sorry that I have not been able to be part of the debate, because I was taking part in the sanctions debate. On that point, would it be possible to consider face to face if a different decision was due to be made? If someone was going …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Mar 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. My constituent, Lyn Ward, has had a lumpectomy, a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Eleven months later, she is still waiting for her PIP assessment and in desperation has gone back to work, even though she is not yet fit. When will that be sorted out?..."
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Wednesday 19th March 2014

Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of the removal of the under-occupancy penalty on the number of children living in relative income poverty.

Answered by Esther McVey

This information could be only provided at disproportionate cost.

This Government has made good progress in tackling the root causes of child poverty and has recently published the 2014-17 draft child poverty strategy for consultation which outlines the actions we are taking. The latest figures from 2011/12 show that 2.3m (17%) children are in relative income poverty – down 300,000 since 2009/10. These are the lowest level since the mid-1980s.

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Tuesday 18th March 2014

Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 15 January 2013, Official Report, column 715W, on child poverty, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of (a) the new timetable for the implementation of universal credit and (b) changes to work allowances on the level of relative income poverty among (i) children and (ii) adults.

Answered by Esther McVey

After full roll-out, the Department's latest analysis suggests that Universal Credit will reduce the number of individuals in relative income poverty by some 600,000; including up to 300,000 children and up to 350,000 adults (numbers do not sum due to rounding).

This figure does not take into account the expected increase in numbers of people in work as a result of universal credit, and excludes the impact of the minimum income floor for the self-employed which is designed to encourage those affected to improve their income levels and for which the behavioural response is very difficult to model.

This estimate is not affected by the timetable for the implementation of Universal Credit, and changes to the policy on uprating of work allowances make negligible difference to the impact of Universal Credit on child or adult poverty as measured by relative income.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"This morning I received a letter from my constituent Tracy, a distressed and house-bound disabled woman who put in a claim for PIP last August but is still waiting for a home visit. She has been told that she might have to wait another six months. It is yet another …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"3. What assessment she has made of the effect of pre-watershed advertising on young people...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"But the number of gambling commercials has increased by about 1.3 million since 2005 and doubled since 2010. Will the Minister back Labour’s call for a review of pre-watershed gambling advertising to ensure that those adverts are not influencing children to gamble?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Why will the Minister not follow the lead of Germany and Australia and enable parents to register their child as “x” when they are neither obviously male or female? That would remove the pressure to make a hasty decision on gender immediately after birth...."
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