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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"I welcome the opportunity to respond on behalf of the Government. I was sorry to hear the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown) accuse the Government of not responding to the report of the UN rapporteur. That is not true; we have responded. I was also sorry to hear …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"If I have time at the end, I will happily take an intervention.

We welcome the commission’s thorough analysis and its efforts to promote social mobility and social justice across the United Kingdom, and we have therefore awarded it £2 million to undertake further work on that agenda. Indeed, despite …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"I will at the end if I have time. I have a lot to get through. I will try to respond to the hon. Lady and to other contributors to the debate, and I will happily take interventions at the end if possible.

Making progress means building a strong economy, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"I will try to take some interventions at the end. I want to get through my remarks and to address some of the questions asked of me.

In 2014, we extended benefits-related free meals to cover further education—not something that the Labour party had contemplated—and introduced universal infant free school …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"I have said that I will at the end when I have a bit of time.

In 2018, 18-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds were proportionally 52% more likely to go to university than they were in 2009. Higher education providers have committed to spend £860 million in 2019-20 on measures to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"The hon. Members for Battersea, for Oldham East and Saddleworth and for Bedford talked about the national living wage and the inequality—[Interruption.] I am trying to address the issues that—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jun 2019
Inequality and Social Mobility

"Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was trying to address some of the issues raised.

The issue of inequality was raised by the hon. Members for Battersea, for Oldham East and Saddleworth and for Bedford. Our policies are highly redistributive. This year the lowest-income households will, on average, receive more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2016
Welfare

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment. There is no one more appropriate to take on the reform and social justice agenda of his predecessor. What is his Department doing for disabled entrepreneurs? May I remind him not to forget entrepreneurs who are disabled?..."
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Written Question
Discretionary Housing Payments
Tuesday 14th July 2015

Asked by: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative - Stratford-on-Avon)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on (a) the proportion of Discretionary Housing Payment funding spent by each local authority, (b) how many and which local authorities returned such funding allocated to them, (c) how much funding each such local authority returned and (d) what the average amount of such funding was which was returned in each of the last three years.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information held by the Department on the proportion of Discretionary Housing Payment funding spent and returned by each local authority and the average amount of funding returned in the last three years is provided in the table which I will place in the House library.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Universal Credit

"It is worth remembering that the tax credit disaster meant that £6 billion was overpaid in the first three years of its operation. Does my right hon. Friend agree that when implementing so crucial a change, it is right and proper to take time and to implement it stage by …..."
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