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Lord Field of Birkenhead Excerpts
Monday 2nd July 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am extraordinarily grateful to the Secretary of State, whose answers I always enjoy. The only point that I would make, gently, to colleagues on both sides of the House is that we have a lot of questions to get through, so we do need to be briefer—and that is now to be exemplified by no less a figure in the House than Mr Frank Field.

Lord Field of Birkenhead Portrait Frank Field (Birkenhead) (Lab)
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Will the Secretary of State commission a report on real-time income, which for many of our constituents provides neither real-time information nor income and results in hardship, and publish that report?

Esther McVey Portrait Ms McVey
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The right hon. Gentleman raises a good point. We are looking constantly at real-time income—how it works and how it works best—and we continue to do that and put out new guidance when we know what is going on.