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HANSARDWomen: Cost of LivingI understand the passion with which the noble Baroness makes her points. All I can say, and I have said it time and again, is that I will take the representation back to the…10 Mar 2022HANSARDWomen: Cost of LivingClaimants can apply to their local authority for a discretionary housing payment if they need help to meet rental costs. We have the flexible support fund to help people as well,…10 Mar 2022HANSARDWomen: Cost of LivingI thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. I say again that we are cognisant of and understand the issues faced by lone parents, not least in respect of childcare and the…10 Mar 2022HANSARDWomen: Cost of LivingMy Lords, the Government are acting to support families with the challenge of rising living costs by providing £12 billion of support for this financial year and next, increasing…10 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022I am afraid that I cannot. I am sorry. On support for people affected by the benefit cap, as I have said, our work coaches are cognisant of all these things, and I am sure they…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022I shall do so. The noble Baroness also raised the benefit cap not being increased. Again, there is a statutory duty to review the levels of the cap at least once in each…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022As I said, I fully appreciate the issue of people who use keys to pay their energy costs, which are higher. Let me take that back as a special project. I will speak to the…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022Further information: if the House votes the order down, that is a sign that the Government must change the process.09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022The point of the debate is to approve the order. Here we go.09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022I am not giving pay rises, I can assure the noble Baroness.09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022I shall certainly write about the points raised by the noble Lord in relation to the uprating order, but I shall also try to do a little better and write to DLUHC and ask it to…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022I think that the noble Baroness appreciates that the UC system is more modern and able to do things, but her point about the £20 uplift is already on my list to take back to the…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022My Lords, I start with an apology. In my opening comments, I said the Government propose to spend an extra £6.6 million in the uprating order; it is actually £6.6 billion. Forgive…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGuaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2022That the Grand Committee do consider the Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2022.09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022My Lords, I am required to confirm that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022 and the draft Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2022 are compatible with…09 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022That the Grand Committee do consider the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022.09 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe situation that the noble Lord describes is truly shocking. I can confirm that the UK advocated strongly for the passage through Parliament of the Yazidi survivors’ law, which…03 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI will try to answer the noble Baroness’s questions. On the debate being on 17 March, I am sure—and I refer to my noble friend the Leader—that it is to do with parliamentary…03 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI am sure that all of us support the point that the noble Baroness makes. I am sure that our Government are in dialogue with the EU to ensure that we fulfil all our obligations to…03 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe UK’s aid of £286 million for 2021-22 provides live-saving support to the most vulnerable. The UK is pressing the World Bank and its shareholders to allocate the remainder of…03 Mar 2022