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HANSARDWelfare ReformThis is a really common issue in the benefit system. If we could never change it, we could not undertake reforms to make it sustainable for the future. Existing claimants will…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformAbsolutely. My right hon. Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability and I met carers’ organisations and many other disability organisations the day after we published…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformYes.30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformThe reason we are protecting existing claimants and beginning to focus PIP on those with higher needs in future is because we want a system that is sustainable and lasts. I do not…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformThe Mayfield review will be reporting before the Budget. Sir Charlie Mayfield wants to work closely with disabled people and the organisations that represent them. He has seen…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformMy hon. Friend raises a really important issue, which is the world of work and the need to ensure that employers recruit and retain more people with long-term sickness or a…30 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyAs the former chair of Feeding Leicester, I know that many of our food banks offer a range of support, helping to signpost people to mental health treatment, debt advice and other…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyIf I may briefly say so, I am very proud that the spending review delivered the largest ever investment in employment support for sick and disabled people—quadrupling what we…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyI could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Economic inactivity is higher in Scotland than in the UK as a whole, and a staggering one in six young Scots are not in education,…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyThis vital step will benefit 7,560 children in my hon. Friend’s constituency. It comes on top of rolling out free breakfast clubs, starting with Calton and Grange primary schools…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyReducing housing costs is one of the key things we are looking at in the child poverty taskforce in advance of our strategy, which we will publish in the autumn. We are investing…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyI thank my hon. Friend for her important question. I can absolutely confirm that the child poverty strategy will be looking at all the levers we need to tackle this really…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChild PovertyThe hon. Gentleman will know that that assessment does not take into account all the steps that we are taking to get more sick and disabled people into work, with the biggest ever…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentMany disabled people want to work, but only 17% of people on personal independence payments are in employment. We believe that disabled people should have the same rights, chances…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentI do not recognise the attitude that the hon. Member describes—quite frankly, we feel precisely the opposite. This vital benefit makes a crucial contribution towards the extra…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentI absolutely will consider that. In fact, I ask my hon. Friend and his constituents to feed into the work that my right hon. Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disability…23 Jun 2025HANSARDSeverely Disabled People: East Worthing and ShorehamProtecting those who can never work is at the heart of our welfare reforms. That is why, in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, we are ensuring that those…23 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am proud of the steps this Labour Government are taking to tackle child poverty. Our historic expansion of free school meals to families on universal credit will lift 100,000…23 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI congratulate, through my hon. Friend, those in his constituency on the fantastic work that he has described. I recently visited an incredible supported internship programme that…23 Jun 2025HANSARDSeverely Disabled People: East Worthing and ShorehamI thank my hon. Friend for the work he is doing locally. As I said, those with severe lifelong conditions —progressive conditions that will never improve, and which mean they will…23 Jun 2025