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HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI will crack on a little, and then I will be happy to take an intervention. I will now spell out each of the Bill’s measures in turn. First, there are powers to investigate…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This Bill will help deliver the biggest ever crackdown on fraud against the public purse, which has now reached an…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I do commit to that, and I thank my hon. Friend for his tireless campaigning on the issue. With almost 1,000 young people unemployed in his constituency, or almost one in 10,…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely will. As my hon. Friend knows, the Government have launched the “Keep Britain Working” review led by Charlie Mayfield, the former chair of John Lewis Partnership. He…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady wants to talk about the facts. The facts are that we inherited a situation in which we will be spending £20 billion more on working-age, incapacity and disability…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am proud to say that I want to get Britain working again after we inherited a situation in which a record 2.8 million people were out of work due to health problems, because the…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would love to visit. That is an important programme focused on keeping people in work and getting those who have recently left back into work as soon as possible. In my hon.…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Minister for Employment, my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Alison McGovern), likes to say, the Department for Work and Pensions is the HR department of the…03 Feb 2025HANSARDEmployers: Economic GrowthGovernment Members are ambitious for people right across the country. We do not accept the situation that we inherited from the Conservative party, as the only country in the G7…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWelfare Cap Breach ResponseThe Office for Budget Responsibility has made a formal assessment that the previous Government’s welfare cap and margin for 2024-25 is on course to be exceeded by £8.6 billion and…29 Jan 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI would like to inform the House that today the Government are taking steps to deliver on their manifesto commitment to safeguard taxpayers’ money through the introduction of the…22 Jan 2025HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportMy hon. Friend raises an extremely important point, which is that a one-size-fits-all approach will not work—even if it ever did. We need to provide tailored information in an…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportThe hon. Lady raises a valid point about the state pension itself and the difficulties for women who have taken time out to look after children. We took that seriously when we…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI have been a lifelong champion of family carers, which is why I have launched an independent review of the overpayment of carers allowance, led by Liz Sayce, and why the…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI think it is the precise opposite. We accept what the ombudsman found about the maladministration, and we apologise and we will learn the lessons to put it right. However, if…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportOur commitment to the pension triple lock, which will deliver an increase of £470 in the new state pension from this April and up to £1,900 extra over the course of this…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI hope that I have been direct, straightforward and honest about why we agree with the finding of maladministration but not with the approach in other areas. People will make…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportMy hon. Friend asks a reasonable question. The difficulty is we estimate that going through 3.5 million women to find out which ones knew about their state pension age increasing…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI know my hon. Friend cares passionately about this issue and many other issues related to pensioners. I repeat what I said in my statement and, indeed, what the ombudsman said,…17 Dec 2024HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI hate to disagree with the right hon. Gentleman, but I did not say it was only about there being no money. I said it was because we do not agree that if we had sent those letters…17 Dec 2024