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Written Question
Chief Scientific Advisers
Thursday 19th June 2014

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings he has had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser in the last 12 months.

Answered by Esther McVey

As was the case under previous administrations, details of internal meetings are not normally disclosed.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2013
Universal Credit

"(Urgent Question): Will the Secretary of State confirm that the facts in the National Audit Office report about universal credit, set out this morning, are true?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2013
Universal Credit

"Our bible, “Erskine May”, states clearly on page 201 that Ministers must give accurate and truthful information to the House,

“correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity”.

On 5 March this year, the Secretary of State told my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) that

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"I beg to move,

That this House believes that the Government should publish, by October 2013, a cumulative impact assessment of the changes made by the Government that affect disabled people.

Five of my right hon. Friends and I have tabled the words of today’s motion, but the words in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I shall come back to his point slightly later.

The Opposition believe in reform of the benefits system and of support and care for disabled people, but we also believe in one thing more—that fewer, not more, disabled people should live in poverty …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"The whole House will have heard my hon. Friend’s powerful story. I am afraid that too often in the past three years we have had not the politics of national unity, but the politics of dividing lines—dividing lines after dividing lines. When has this country ever achieved great things when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"That evidence is now becoming well known, and we have had more evidence circulated by great organisations, such as Carers UK today, about the impact this tax is now having on some of the most vulnerable people in our community, including hundreds in the Minister’s constituency...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"In a moment. Perhaps when the Minister intervenes he can justify what Carers UK found:

“Three quarters (75%) of carers having to pay the ‘bedroom tax’ are being forced to cut back on essential spending on food, electricity and heating.”

Will the Minister justify that to the House?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"It ill behoves the Minister to play word games this afternoon on a policy that is affecting hundreds of people and their carers in his own constituency. What is he saying to carers in his constituency who are having to cut back on food, electricity and heating?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Disabled People

"In a moment. What is the Minister going to say to councils up and down the country surveyed by Channel 4 for tonight’s broadcast showing that one third of councils are having to deny help to disabled people because the provision of the discretionary housing payment fund is, frankly, insufficient? …..."
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