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HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI can give my hon. Friend that assurance, yes. The outcome of the review will be central to the legislation that follows.09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillThe hon. Gentleman raised that point very reasonably in the debate, and it is certainly something we need to consider as well.09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillLet me make just a little more headway. I will give away a little bit later. As my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge and I have discussed, I do not agree that…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI am happy to give the hon. Gentleman the same answer that I gave him last week, which is that the figures will be published by the OBR in the usual way. A number of amendments…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillNo, because reform is urgently needed. We were elected to deliver change and that is what we must do. It is particularly scandalous that the system gives up on young people in…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillNot just at the moment. Clause 1 introduces the first ever sustained above-inflation rise to the universal credit standard allowance. The previous Government ran universal credit…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillThank you, Madam Chair.09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI thank everybody who has spoken in this debate. If someone can work, they should. My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (David Pinto-Duschinsky) was absolutely right to remind the…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI thank my hon. Friend very much for all the work he has done on this, and for helpfully highlighting that concern. It might help if I read briefly to him what the current…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillWe will aim for a consensus among all those taking part, and that is what I hope we will achieve.09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillThe form of words in the Bill, including the word “constant”, exactly replicates the way the severe conditions criteria are applied at the moment. The “constant” refers to the…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillWill my hon. Friend recognise how the Bill protects people in exactly the situation that she describes? Those who receive the universal credit health premium at the moment will be…09 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI will not give way at the moment. The Bill opens up that possibility, and it deals with work disincentives inserted into universal credit by the previous Government. The current…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillWe will set out those figures in the usual way. The last Government wanted to change the personal independence payment from cash to vouchers. They wanted to take the independence…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI need to make a little more progress. As a number of Members highlighted in the debate, including my hon. Friends the Members for Clwyd North (Gill German) and for Southampton…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI can assure my hon. Friend that the review is not intended to save money—that is not its purpose. The review is to get the assessment right and make sure we have an assessment…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI will not be giving way again. The Tories were never really interested in the disability employment gap. They had a brief flirtation in the 2015 general election campaign, when…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI want to make some further headway. In her speech, my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) drew attention to the fact that she and I had known each other for…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillLet me say a little about the announcement I made in my intervention on my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) earlier on. We have listened to the concerns…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillWe have had a passionate and eventful debate. We have heard the concerns, and the Government will amend the Bill, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have set…01 Jul 2025