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HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe intend to ensure that everybody who is entitled to pension credit, and therefore the winter fuel payment, claims it and gets it. We have seen a 145% increase in claims—far more…16 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady talked about the winter fuel payment, but she failed to mention our determination to ensure that the 880,000 pensioners who do not claim pension credit, but are…16 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs a lifelong champion of family carers, dealing with the problem of carer’s allowance overpayments is a priority for me and for my right hon. Friend the Minister for Social…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperI congratulate organisations such as the one that the hon. Lady mentions for their brilliant work, not only to keep energy costs down but to support people into work. I will work…16 Dec 2024HANSARDLow-paid WorkThe Government share my hon. Friend’s determination to boost the living standards of his constituents, so the “Get Britain Working” White Paper will ensure that every local…16 Dec 2024HANSARDLow-paid WorkOur plan to get Britain working is crucial to tackling low pay and increasing living standards in every corner of the country. When only one in six people ever fully escape low…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White Paper: Long-term Health ConditionsI believe that sport, as well as art and culture, can play a huge role in engaging and inspiring people, helping them on the pathway to skills, confidence and jobs. I want to see…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White Paper: Long-term Health ConditionsYes, I think it is disgusting that some people think it is all right to steal the blue badges that so many disabled people rely on to work, but also to socialise and to see family…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White Paper: Long-term Health ConditionsDisabled people and people with long-term health conditions deserve the same rights as everybody else, including the right to work. Many of the 2.8 million people out of work due…16 Dec 2024HANSARDYouth GuaranteeThat sounds like a fantastic programme by the YMCA in my hon. Friend’s constituency. That is precisely why we need to join up with what local colleges are doing, with the support…16 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Lady cared so much about pensioners in the cold, why did her Government leave 880,000 not claiming pension credit? Why did they first promise to bring together housing…16 Dec 2024HANSARDYouth GuaranteeI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That is why we are going to give new powers, responsibilities and funding to local areas to deliver our youth guarantee. They know their…16 Dec 2024HANSARDYouth GuaranteeOur new youth guarantee will ensure that every young person is earning or learning, tackling the scandal that we inherited of almost 1 million young people not in education,…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperI absolutely join in the hon. Gentleman’s comments. It was a great joy to see that victory at the weekend. We want to see Access to Work working better. We want to get the…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperThe hon. Member is laughing at his own chutzpah. I am happy to talk about the past 14 years, but the work capability assessment is not working. It needs to be reformed or…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperIf you can work, you must work, and if you repeatedly refuse to, sanctions will remain, but I know from young people in my constituency that they are desperate to get the skills…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperIn the Vale of Glamorgan, the economic inactivity rate is almost one in four people. That is higher than the rate for Wales as a whole, and certainly higher than the UK average.…16 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I shall make a statement on our “Get Britain Working” White Paper, bringing forward the biggest reforms to employment support in a…26 Nov 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperIf I have time.26 Nov 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperToday, the Government have published the “Get Britain Working” White Paper—bringing forward the biggest reforms to employment support in a generation, and turning a Department of…26 Nov 2024