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HANSARDUniversal 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 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 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 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillNo, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman one of the things that the Bill does. Part of the problem is that it is very hard to bring up a family on the standard…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillLet me make a little bit of headway before I give way again. Under the last Labour Government, in the 12 years up to 2010, the disability employment gap fell steadily. In 2010, as…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillLet me make a little further progress. I still have not quite answered the question put to me in the first place in the intervention by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hayes…01 Jul 2025HANSARDWork and PensionsWe are reviewing universal credit to ensure that it makes work pay and tackles poverty, and we are looking at exactly the kind of problem that my hon. Friend highlights. I would…26 Jun 2025HANSARDWork and PensionsWe are reviewing universal credit to ensure that it makes work pay and tackles poverty, and we are looking at exactly the kind of problem that my hon. Friend highlights. I would…26 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are reviewing universal credit to ensure that it makes work pay and tackles poverty, and we are looking at exactly the kind of problem that my hon. Friend highlights. I would…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentNo. Members will be voting for reforms to open up opportunities for people who have been denied opportunities for far too long. We are putting that right.23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentIt is really important for claimants of PIP that its funding should be sustainable into the future. The trajectory of the past few years has been unsustainable. We are taking…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentThe OBR has published its assessment, and my hon. Friend is right that it has assessed that one in 10 of those receiving PIP in November next year will have lost it by 2029-30—one…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentI recognise that many people who are on the PIP daily living component who did not get four points on anything at their last assessment are feeling rather anxious. However, what…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentThe current PIP application process is outdated and can be very difficult to follow. Alongside proposed legislative changes, the Department’s health transformation programme will…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentWe are putting in place a fairer system. Action was urgently needed. In the year before the pandemic, PIP cost the Government £12 billion at current prices, and last year it cost…23 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am looking forward to answering questions about these matters in front of the Committee on Wednesday morning. We are working very closely with the Department of Health and…23 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend’s constituent will benefit from the big increase in the universal credit standard allowance, which we have talked about, and from free school meals for her…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentAmong households as a whole, there will be more net gainers than net losers from the package. The reason for that is the increase to the standard allowance of universal credit,…23 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI commend my hon. Friend for all his work on this issue, including his seminal 2022 independent review. He is right that care leavers need support as they move to independent…23 Jun 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentI am not sure whether the shadow Minister wants me to go further or not so far—he seems to be facing both ways. He is right that we are not at this point proposing any changes to…23 Jun 2025