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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q6.  Workers in Rochdale on the minimum wage received a much needed pay rise this summer, thanks to this Government, but honest businesses are being undermined by the menace of illegal working, particularly by illegal migrants from Iran and Iraq in bogus barber shops and fake vape shops. Does the …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context
Paul Waugh (LAB) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 313 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 54
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context
Paul Waugh (LAB) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 314 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 334 Noes - 54
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"The shadow Minister makes a point about the state funding children. Does he accept that a million families that have three or more children receive child benefit presently? If he accepts that point, does he, as a father of three—as am I—not accept the principle that those children come first …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Welfare Spending

"The Minister is making an important speech with which many Labour Members will agree. She will be aware that 59% of families with more than two children and which are on universal credit are in work. That is far from the feckless parent caricature that we have heard from the …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
15 Jul 2025 - Welfare Spending - View Vote Context
Paul Waugh (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 344 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 106 Noes - 440
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Jul 2025 - Taxes - View Vote Context
Paul Waugh (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 333 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 165 Noes - 342
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2025
UK-France Migration: Co-operation

"On Friday, the BBC interviewed an Egyptian economic migrant in Calais who said that he had tried and failed four times to cross the channel but, since the Prime Minister’s agreement with President Macron, he was giving up:

“I don’t want to go to Britain any more, because they are …..."
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Written Question
Universal Credit
Thursday 10th July 2025

Asked by: Paul Waugh (Labour (Co-op) - Rochdale)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the five-week wait for Universal Credit on (a) debt and (b) poverty levels.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

We are reviewing Universal Credit, to make sure it is doing the job we want it to. We are committed to considering how we can support people during the Initial Assessment Period, often referred to as the 5-week wait, before they receive their first payment as part of the review and will provide an update in due course.

Published research on debt whilst on UC can be found here: Impacts of external debt for indebted Universal Credit claimants - GOV.UK; DWP ad hoc research - GOV.UK and the latest Universal Credit deductions statistics are published here Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 10 April 2025 - GOV.UK

Division Vote (Commons)
9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Paul Waugh (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 377 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 103 Noes - 416