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HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords—15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord has clarified the situation, in that the Act came in some time after his then party came into power and the consultation took place prior to the general election…15 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsMy Lords, I welcome this question from the right reverend Prelate. First, I want to say that we now spend more in this country than any other developed nation on family benefits.10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsMy Lords, this Government support families. Our welfare system supports those who are vulnerable and helps people into work. These reforms are working, with 3.3 million more…10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsThe noble Baroness will have heard that we are doing a lot through cash injection for childcare support, but I accept that it is important to look at the process of how and when…10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsIt is not to use up time, it is to set out our case. A working couple on universal credit with three children aged four, six and eight, for example, could be eligible for…10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsMy Lords, I am not ashamed. There are many and varied reasons why people use food banks and it is misleading to automatically link this to any single cause, as the party opposite…10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsMy Lords, let us look quickly at what we offered in the Budget. The Budget has made an enormous difference in the amount of money that we have put into the system following…10 Jan 2019HANSARDBenefit ReformsI said I would begin by saying that we now spend more in this country than any other developed nation on family benefits. The aim of the two-child policy is an important one: to…10 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditI will respond by saying first that perhaps we should ask the press what on earth is going on. The news that there is a delay is wrong. The Government previously committed to hold…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditI am sorry. Under the legacy system people lived, as it were, in the shadowlands of dependency. We are lifting people out of poverty and encouraging more people into work. The…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditMy Lords, the noble Baroness is wrong to say that the regulations have been widely condemned. Why do 70 different stakeholders want to work with us if they condemn what we are…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditI thank my noble friend for this question, because of course our focus is very much on all claimants. Each claimant has a different bespoke need. The reality is that they have a…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditI very much take on board what the noble Lord said. This has been very much part of our thinking in the department. It is very important that we make sure that we have an…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditMy Lords, I am trying to clarify it to the best of my ability. The reality is that, as I have already said, we want to make sure that we protect those with a severe disability…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal CreditMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat as a Statement an Answer given to an Urgent Question in another place by my right honourable friend the Minister for…08 Jan 2019