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Debate between Rupa Huq and Stephen Timms
Monday 7th October 2024

(1 month, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Timms Portrait Sir Stephen Timms
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I very much hope that we can, because the hon. Gentleman is right: there is a good deal of anxiety about these overpayment problems. We hope that the alert service will at least inform people when they run into a problem so that they do not then develop a large overpayment, which has happened all too often in the past, but we also need to look at the other arrangements relating to carer’s allowance in order to provide the reassurance for which the hon. Gentleman has rightly called.

Rupa Huq Portrait Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
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17. What assessment she has made of trends in the number of benefit sanctions in the last five years.

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Debate between Rupa Huq and Stephen Timms
Thursday 27th June 2019

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Timms Portrait Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)
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1. What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on a public vote on the terms of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

Rupa Huq Portrait Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
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12. If he will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of a public vote on the terms of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.