Mentions:
1: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) a call for bids, the research was awarded to a joint bid from the University of Strathclyde and the Poverty - Speech Link
2: None for an increase in incomes for people with a disability who are living in poverty in Scotland.In the - Speech Link
3: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) The Scottish child payment will have an impact on some households that are in poverty and have a disability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) the personal independence payment, which is a contribution to the additional costs of sickness and disability - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Health Equity North research shows high levels of economic inactivity in the north-east due to disability - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Our national disability strategy and the disability action plan are delivering tangible progress. - Speech Link
4: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) What are the Government’s plans to reduce dependence on food banks? - Speech Link
5: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) It is so important for disability inclusion in the workplace. Will she recommend that hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) benefits, some of whom are being forced to go to food banks as a result? - Speech Link
2: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) Many have also had to turn to food banks as a result of the wait. - Speech Link
3: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) We must never take the progress on child poverty, carers allowance, disability assistance, the bedroom - Speech Link
4: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) That was when they started to struggle to afford food and electricity. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) The Government take food security very seriously and are committed to understanding and addressing food - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) We are also on the verge of publishing our disability action plan. - Speech Link
3: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) We have disability employment advisers in our jobcentres. I am visiting my hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) groups for green jobs and for disability access. - Speech Link
2: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) food banks have seen a 42% increase compared to 2022. - Speech Link
3: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) Figures from the Trussell Trust show that in the six months between April and September, food banks in - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) thank our food banks for the work they do in supporting our communities. - Speech Link
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: Examining outcomes associated with Social Security Scotland spending: an evidence synthesisFound: , debt, material deprivation and food insecurity
Found: poverty in Scotland.
Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) contributory jobseeker’s allowance, contributory employment and support allowance, additional needs disability - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Moreover, food banks in the Trussell Trust network distributed about 3 million emergency food parcels - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) state pension benefits, in particular, will be moving to a more modern IT platform by 2025, followed by disability - Speech Link
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report entitled Emergency food parcel distribution in the UK: April– September 2023 published by the Trussell Trust on 8 November 2023 which noted that 46% of all food parcels provided by the Trust’s food banks are for families with three or more children.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Government is committed to reducing poverty, including child poverty, and supporting low-income families. We will spend around £276bn through the welfare system in Great Britain in 2023/24 including around £124bn on people of working age and children. From April 2023, we uprated benefit rates and State Pensions by 10.1% and, subject to Parliamentary approval, working-age benefits will rise by 6.7% from April 2024, in line with inflation.
With over 900 thousand job vacancies across the UK, our focus remains firmly on supporting parents to move into and progress in work. This approach which is based on clear evidence about the importance of employment - particularly where it is full-time - in substantially reducing the risks of poverty. In 2021/22 children living in workless households were 5 times more likely to be in absolute poverty, after housing costs, than those where all adults work.
To help people into work, our core Jobcentre offer provides a range of options, including face-to-face time with work coaches and interview assistance. In addition, there is specific support targeted towards young people, people aged 50 plus and job seekers with disabilities or health issues.
To further support parents into work, on 28th June 2023, the maximum monthly amounts that a parent can be reimbursed for their childcare increased by 47%, from £646.35 for one child and £1,108.04 for two or more children to £950.92 and £1,630.15 respectively. Importantly, we can now also provide even more help with upfront childcare costs when parents move into work or increase their hours. In addition, on 1 April 2024, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.
This government understands the pressures people, including parents, are facing with the cost of living which is why we are providing total support of £104bn over 2022-25 to help households and individuals.
In the financial year 2023/24, this has included Cost of Living payments totalling up to £900 for households on eligible means-tested benefits, a further £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment for people on eligible ‘extra cost’ disability benefits; and, for pensioner households, an additional £300 Cost of Living payment paid as a top up to the winter fuel payment.
The Household Support Fund is running throughout the financial year 2023/24. This enables Local Authorities in England to continue to provide discretionary support to those most in need with the cost of essentials.
Further, from April 2024, to support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents for private renters. This will benefit 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25.
Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) needs and disabilities are missing out on the free school meals that they are eligible for due to their disability - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Due to his disability, he struggles to eat solid food. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Today, we discuss those who have a special educational need or disability, and colleagues have raised - Speech Link