Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Harper and Chris White

Monday 8th December 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Harper]

We have introduced a scheme, and introduced a levy to pay for it. This continues the work that we agreed on when the previous Government introduced a similar scheme under the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008. I am proud of the scheme we have introduced. It will go a long way towards helping people who have been affected by this dreadful industrial disease.

[Chris White (Warwick and Leamington) (Con)]

T7. Last month, there was a debate in this Chamber on promoting the living wage. May I congratulate the Department for Work and Pensions on being the first Department in Whitehall to pay its staff and contractors the London living wage? Does the Secretary of State agree that we should encourage all Government Departments to follow suit?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Harper and Chris White

Tuesday 24th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean) (Con)]

1. What recent assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the level of employment.

[Chris White (Warwick and Leamington) (Con)]

12. What recent assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the level of employment.

[The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr George Osborne)]

There are more people in work than ever before, with the latest figures showing the fastest increase in employment since records began. Today we have the very welcome news that Abu Dhabi will be investing £1 billion in building new houses in Manchester. That is a step towards it becoming the northern powerhouse I want to see, and it is a £1 billion vote of confidence in our long-term economic plan.