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HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have already mentioned in a number of responses, we understand the scale and seriousness of the problem the hon. Member mentions. We have already published the terms of…03 Feb 2025HANSARDUnemployment RateThanks to the dreadful inheritance left to us by the Tory Government, we need to raise productivity, reduce economic inactivity, increase employment rates and drive up economic…03 Feb 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Economic GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for meeting with Department for Work and Pensions colleagues in west Ealing and, through her, thank them for all the work they are doing. I know she will…03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and for coming along to our parliamentary engagement session last week, which I hope he agrees was a productive update for everybody.…03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyAs I have said several times, we are working quickly to bring forward the detail of that plan. In fact, only last week we had a parliamentary engagement session so that colleagues…03 Feb 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Economic GrowthI apologise to my hon. Friend; I could not quite hear which jobcentres he has visited. However, I thank him for doing so and for connecting with DWP colleagues in that way; it is…03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI hope the hon. Lady will understand from the tone of what I said that this matter is urgent and that we are working quickly and will bring forward proposals as soon as we can.03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI regularly meet representatives of the Welsh Government because while we strongly believe in devolution, we know that a partnership between Governments is the best way to protect…03 Feb 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Economic GrowthIncreasing employment and helping people into good work is essential to growing our economy, which is why our “Get Britain Working” plan sets out our vision to reform jobcentres…03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThe hon. Lady is absolutely right: this issue is urgent. That was why in the Budget the Chancellor announced the fair repayment rate, which stops families having to deal with so…03 Feb 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyIt is a terrible consequence of 14 years of Conservative misrule that around 4.3 million of our children are growing up in poverty. That is why the child poverty taskforce’s work…03 Feb 2025HANSARDUnemployment RateI am glad the hon. Gentleman is bothered by the employment rate and I hope he is bothered by the record of his party, which saw employment fall off a cliff after the pandemic and…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Treasury Committee for all her work on this issue. I will happily engage with her through correspondence on the matter.03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend eloquently makes the case for our “Make Work Pay” reforms. This is not just about helping our economy grow, it is also about protecting people from poverty. In all…03 Feb 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Economic GrowthI do not.03 Feb 2025HANSARD Welfare CapThe NHS is the bedrock that ensures people can thrive and contribute to society, economically and in every other way. We also need to ensure that the health support people get is…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Welfare CapBefore this Government were elected, we said that we would change this country, and we will. To get change done, any Government have to stand on firm foundations, which is why, as…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Welfare CapI beg to move, That, pursuant to the Charter for Budget Responsibility: Autumn 2022 update, which was approved by this House on 6 February 2023 under section 1 of the Budget…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Welfare CapI thank every Member who contributed to the debate. My hon. Friends the Member for Loughborough (Dr Sandher), for Hendon (David Pinto-Duschinsky) and for Chipping Barnet (Dan…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Welfare CapIn the specifics of our proposal, we will publish a Green Paper on health and disability in the coming months. With regards to the financial controls, we will do all that the…29 Jan 2025