Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Meg Hillier and Jo Churchill

Monday 18th March 2024 Commons Chamber

[Jo Churchill]

We are working with other Departments, employers and stakeholders to isolate where those vacancies are, and on sector-based work academy programmes. We have put over 266,000 people through construction, care, tourism, hospitality—all those gaps that we need to fill.

[Dame Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)]

Of people currently claiming tax credits, 20% are not moving over to universal credit in the migration. The Department tells us that those who are not claiming would have got a median amount of £3,200 a year. Will the Minister assure me and the House that she is doing everything she can to ensure that people are getting the money that they are owed?

[Jo Churchill]

I assure the hon. Lady that we are keeping a close eye on the issue, but ultimately it is the customer’s responsibility to claim. I gently point out that we have been rolling out the migration in her constituency since May ’23, with not one complaint. There is plenty of help available to those people as they transition.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Meg Hillier and Jo Churchill

Tuesday 23rd June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Jo Churchill]

We know that health inequalities are stubborn, persistent and difficult to change—we knew that before covid-19, but that is not a reason to accept them. We fully agree that more needs to be done to reduce the disparity in health outcomes within the BAME community and the broader community. That is why we will ensure that the work on health inequalities goes on at pace.

[Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)]

What steps his Department is taking to support local authority covid-19 test and trace services.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Meg Hillier and Jo Churchill

Tuesday 28th January 2020 Commons Chamber

[Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)]

There are real concerns in east London about the big delays in the breast cancer screening programme, meaning that many women are not getting their first screening until close to their 53rd birthday. Will the Minister meet me and other concerned east London MPs to ensure that we tackle that, to the benefit of our constituents?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Jo Churchill)]

I would be delighted to meet the hon. Lady and other east London MPs. Mike Richards has done a review of screening, and we need to level up and ensure that everybody can access screening.