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HANSARDKickstart SchemeI completely agree with my hon. Friend. Kickstart is delivering valuable jobs and work experience to young jobseekers at risk of long-term unemployment. Although kickstart closed…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises an important point. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor worked closely with him in his previous post as a local government Minister. The supporting families…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have the highest regard for the hon. Gentleman, and he is a doughty champion for the people of South Yorkshire. The levelling up White Paper will be a key moment in setting out…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyWe are running the Government of the United Kingdom, and we needed to respond at speed to an unprecedented public health emergency. If we had failed to provide the £400 billion of…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is a fantastic advocate for Wrexham, and for wider pride in north Wales, which is incredibly important. I am happy to meet her to discuss any aspect of the bid…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyMy right hon. Friend puts it extremely well. We must remember the context: the economy was going through a heart attack at that time, owing to the necessary steps we took to…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. This relates to the future fund, a rules-based scheme that means that any firm is eligible for funding, providing it meets the…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI thank the hon. Lady for her question, and I completely agree that we want to pursue fraud whenever it has occurred. That is why, at the March 2021 Budget, we established a £100…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsAs my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has announced, we are increasing the national living wage to £9.50 an hour for workers aged 23 and over from this April. That means a pay…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI will comment specifically on some of the fraud relating to Government economic support schemes put in place during the pandemic. My colleagues and I share the anger and…01 Feb 2022HANSARDKickstart SchemeWe know that young people have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. I am delighted that, to date, more than 122,000 kickstart jobs have been started by young people…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The purpose of clause 93 is to provide a new function enabling HMRC, or anyone acting on its behalf, to exchange information with a relevant person for the purpose of facilitating…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 94 disapplies section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995 and article 89 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 to ensure that benefits in relation to a partnership pension…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 92 provides the power for scheme regulations to make provisions in relation to certain fee-paid judges who are not McCloud judges but whom it is accepted should have…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 87 amends the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 to reflect that the secret intelligence service and security service pension schemes have a closing date of 31 March 2016,…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 96 provides Treasury ministers with the power to make regulations that amend, repeal, revoke or modify other statutes where the need to do so is consequential on provision…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 90 allows the Government to make regulations to create a compensation scheme in relation to any compensatable losses incurred by relevant members. Clause 85 provides…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 95 corrects a minor error in a section of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 pertaining to ill-health retirement benefits. Question put and agreed to. Clause 95…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It is the OBR’s decision to make. Question put and negatived. Clause 86 accordingly disagreed to . Clause 87 Amendments relating to the Secret Intelligence Service etc Question…27 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he said. As a former Minister for Local Government, I absolutely agree with everything he says about the value of local government workers and…27 Jan 2022