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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) The Tory credit rating is zero. - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) On universal credit, we have done so much over the years to reduce high marginal tax rates and disincentives.It - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) credit taper rate to 50%. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Nearly 4 million people are living in absolute destitution, with 1 million on universal credit requiring - Speech Link
5: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) expectancy in County Durham has been going down in the last 10 years, while suicide rates are at a record - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) There are real consequences, too, for the quality of life of our people. - Speech Link
2: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) consistently calling on the UK Government to take action to tackle the cost of living crisis, improve universal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) As of July 2023, 6.1 million people were claiming universal credit. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) harms from a poor diet and broader experiences of food insecurity, including: lower life-expectancy, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) chances and life expectancy. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) These are: to boost incomes and reduce costs by ending the poverty premium; to reboot universal credit - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is not possible to award a universal credit payment as soon as a claim is made, as the assessment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature Deaths - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) that process, I realised the enormity of the situation I was in and the potential that I could lose my life - Speech Link
2: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) I can talk about it not so much as having saved my life, but it has changed my life. - Speech Link
3: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) The levels of universal credit have been too low for too long. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) Secondly, although universal credit also helps with childcare costs, the processes are very bureaucratic - Speech Link
2: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) expectancy now falling and with the worst access to healthcare of any European country. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) credit who are moving into work or increasing their hours. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Social Security (Investment) - Wed 07 Feb 2024

Mentions:
1: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) We could do so much more if we were not held back by, for example, the fact that universal credit is - Speech Link
2: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) In 2019, it was reported that a boy who was born in Muirhouse had a life expectancy that was 13 years - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Education

Feb. 05 2024

Source Page: Academies consolidated annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022
Document: Academy schools sector in England: consolidated annual report and accounts, 2021 to 2022 (web-accessible PDF) (PDF)

Found: includes high needs place funding; • grants to meet other ministerial priorities (e.g. pupil premium, universal


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Education

Feb. 05 2024

Source Page: Academies consolidated annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022
Document: Academy schools sector in England: consolidated annual report and accounts, 2021 to 2022 (print-ready PDF) (PDF)

Found: includes high needs place funding; • grants to meet other ministerial priorities (e.g. pupil premium, universal


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) expectancy and healthy life expectancy across the UK including devolved nations and regions, and(d) - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) He warned us in 2017 when we started to see life expectancy in England as a whole flatlining, which was - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions
Document: Paper 9: Social security in an independent Scotland (PDF)

Found: Credit April 2022 17 Figure 3: Universal Credit entitlement as a percentage of average earnings,