Debates between Rupa Huq and Stephen Timms during the 2024 Parliament

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

(2 months, 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.