Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Torsten Bell and Katrina Murray

Tuesday 9th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Torsten Bell]

The hon. Member is right to call those things a moral and economic disgrace. Does he know who created them? It was the Conservative party opposite. Who saw a 50% rise in the number of those not in education, employment or training? The party opposite. Who created the benefits system that is failing today? The party opposite. Who failed to reform the benefits system? The party opposite.

[Katrina Murray (Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) (Lab)]

5. What progress she has made on the financial inclusion strategy. [R]

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Torsten Bell and Katrina Murray

Monday 3rd February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Torsten Bell]

I will commit to fighting every day to avoid a repeat of the exercise under the last Government whereby pensioner poverty rose by 300,000, having fallen by 1 million under the last Labour Government. We will make sure that we publish details of the take-up of pension credit by the end of February.

[Katrina Murray (Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) (Lab)]

8. What steps she is taking to support people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into work.