Select Committee

Disability and Youth Transition Project

DYE0010 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: One participant’s experience with the Kickstart scheme resulted in them having to pay back benefits

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Select Committee

Letter from Nigel Huddleston MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, to the Senior Deputy Speaker on the Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision

Correspondence Apr. 26 2024

Committee: Liaison Committee (Lords)

Found: The Affordable Housing Guarantee Scheme aims to support the delivery of 20,000 new affordable homes.

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Select Committee

Twenty-Ninth Report - Progress in implementing Universal Credit

Report Apr. 26 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Secure training centres and secure schools HC 30 14th Investigation into the British Steel Pension Scheme

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Select Committee

Recro Consulting

DES0040 - Devolution of employment support

Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024

Inquiry: Devolution of employment support
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: prevent young people becoming unemployed, including long-term unemployed – see the failure of Kickstart

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Select Committee

London Borough of Lambeth

DES0006 - Devolution of employment support

Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024

Inquiry: Devolution of employment support
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: What impact could greater devolution of employment support have on the consistency and quality of scheme

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Select Committee

Carers Trust, St George’s University of London, Alek-Zander Chullan-Hoyte, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions, and Department for Work and Pensions

Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: carers on the lowest incomes as well as significantly complicating the current carer’s allowance scheme

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Select Committee

Twenty-Eighth Report - Student loans issued to those studying at franchised higher education providers

Report Apr. 24 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Secure training centres and secure schools HC 30 14th Investigation into the British Steel Pension Scheme

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Written Question

Personal Savings

Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following the findings of the Financial Conduct Authority survey indicating a decrease in savings and investing among UK adults, what steps they are taking to help individuals and families save and invest.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government is committed to incentivising greater saving and investment, to help hard working people save for their future goals and build greater financial resilience.

The Help to Save scheme was launched in September 2018 and is intended to promote financial resilience among working households on low incomes by supporting them to kickstart a regular, long-term savings habit and build a financial buffer for a rainy day.

Individuals can also save up to £20,000 into an Individual Savings Account (ISA) each year, and any savings income received within an ISA is tax free. This, along with the Personal Savings Allowance of up to £1,000 for basic rate taxpayers means that around 85% of people with savings income pay no tax on that income.

However, the Government also recognises that people need support to make effective investment decisions. This is why the Government and FCA are working on a joint review of the boundary between financial advice and guidance to ensure people can access appropriate support with their financial decision-making.

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Select Committee

Twenty-Seventh Report - Government resilience: extreme weather

Report Apr. 19 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Secure training centres and secure schools HC 30 14th Investigation into the British Steel Pension Scheme

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