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HANSARDJobs MarketI am delighted to welcome that. It was a really exciting announcement, and the Government are committed to investing in new high-quality, highly skilled jobs. We want to be a…13 Nov 2025HANSARDJobs MarketMy Lords, we have made clear what our ambitions are with Get Britain Working and that we will have metrics and publish regular data on them. One thing I want to take the…13 Nov 2025HANSARDJobs MarketOn the unemployment figures, different things are going on under the surface if one digs down into the figures, which I am sure the noble Lord has done. For example, he may be…13 Nov 2025HANSARDJobs MarketMy Lords, despite Tuesday’s unemployment figures, there is positive information on the labour market. However, the latest figures show why we are right to focus on supporting…13 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThat this House do not insist on its Amendment 84 and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 84A and 84B in lieu.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I will also speak to Motions E and F, with the leave of the House. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, for his continued constructive engagement on these issues. I hope…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMoved by That this House do not insist on its Amendment 43, to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reason 43A.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThat this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 75A.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThat this House do not insist on its Amendment 97 and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 97A, 97B, 97C, 97D, 97E and 97F in lieu.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I thank all the noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I am grateful that all noble Lords who have contributed have conceded that we have reached a point where we…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentMy Lords, if anyone is not paying the legal minimum then they are breaking the law, whatever the circumstances, and should absolutely be taken to task for that. However, my noble…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentI am grateful to the noble Viscount for that really good question. We have a service called “support with employee health and disability”. We are not great at names in DWP, but it…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentWe have indeed. Despite being a Minister, I have not yet completely calibrated the scale that runs from, at one end, “in due course”, to, at the other end, “very soon”, but it is…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentI am grateful to the noble Lord, who makes a very important point. There has been an issue for some time—I am not telling him anything new; he knows it better than I do—around the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentMy Lords, I thank my noble friend for sharing her circumstance with us. I am really optimistic about Connect to Work. For noble Lords who do not know, Connect to Work is a…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentMy Lords, I share the noble Baroness’s desire to find more opportunities for people with learning disabilities, severe autism and other conditions to get the benefits of work, of…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentMy Lords, notwithstanding the valuable role that volunteering plays in helping people prepare for work, we want disabled people and people with health conditions to be able to…28 Oct 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Staffing LevelsMy Lords, our jobcentres provide a professional, targeted service. DWP recently conducted a thorough review of jobcentre activity, to look at ways in which we can respond to…23 Oct 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Staffing LevelsMy Lords, DWP monitors demand for jobcentre support on an ongoing basis and has well-established workforce planning systems to make sure that we have the right people in the right…23 Oct 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Staffing LevelsMy Lords, that is the question. We have an increasingly sophisticated model for mapping demand and the number that the noble Viscount gave pretty much matches the demand we are…23 Oct 2025