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HANSARDIncomes and Living Conditions: 2021-22 StatisticsThe Department for Work and Pensions has today published its annual statistics on incomes and living standards covering 2021-22. This includes households below average income…23 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationThis Budget and the measures it sets out for providing additional support and encouragement for millions of people to re-engage with the labour market spoke to the very heart of…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationOur policy and rules around sanctions have not been changed by the Budget, but it is important that where somebody can work and is offered support to work and decides to take…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI am very happy to engage in detail with the hon. Gentleman on the specific point he raises, but as to the general point of removing the pensions lifetime allowance, Labour has to…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI have made it very clear that thousands upon thousands will be affected. The right hon. Lady is adopting a completely perverse policy in view of the position taken by the shadow…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI point the hon. Gentleman to page 9 of the distributional analysis that accompanied the Budget, where he will find that those in the lowest income deciles proportionally benefit…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationThe answer to the hon. Gentleman’s inquiry is in the early measures, which I was going to come on to. The Chancellor has dealt with the one-month requirement for the up-front…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI give way to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee.16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationThe right hon. Gentleman will know that hitherto we have indeed focused on a gap. The Department will come forward with something to say on that in the not-too-distant future, and…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationAs I just suggested, we will take a measured and appropriate approach to the delivery of a fundamental reform of how these benefits will work. It will involve primary legislation,…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationIt gives me great pleasure to give way to my illustrious predecessor.16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank her for what she did when she was Secretary of State, and before that as Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work. I am…16 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI have enormous respect for the hon. Gentleman, as he knows, but I genuinely wish to clarify one point. Is he at least saying that there are some circumstances in which a sanction…16 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Disability White PaperI would like to update hon. and right hon. Members on the publication later today of “Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper”. This White Paper is a…15 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleAs to whether the OBR is or is not scoring the various measures that are being presented to it by the Treasury, I am intrigued as to how the right hon. Gentleman seems to know…06 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleI thank my hon. Friend for raising this important matter, which of course is well known to the Chancellor and Treasury colleagues. We have a variety of discussions with the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleI can reassure my hon. Friend that we are most certainly looking carefully at that particular cohort of people who have prematurely retired—if I may use that term—and are over the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleEven one person in the circumstances that the hon. Gentleman refers to is one too many. We are going to come forward very shortly with further measures on how we address those…06 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleI am afraid that I am just going to have to repeat what I have said, which is that the right hon. Gentleman will have to be patient. I am confident that we will have some things…06 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Working-age PeopleI very much welcome the hon. Lady’s question—I certainly enjoyed my time working with her on the Treasury Committee, where she raised these matters with great passion. She is…06 Mar 2023