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HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; we have to do that. Five years ago, we were spending £12 billion on personal independence payment, and this year, in current prices, we will…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. Given his description of the people being cared for, they will continue to receive personal independence payments. Once…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to my hon. Friend, but we will not withdraw the policy. We will certainly reflect on it, and we will consult properly on the content of the Green Paper. The figures…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to underline again the hugely important contribution, not least economic contribution, made by carers. The consultation is under way, and it…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to the hon. Member for raising that point, but the Green Paper is very clear about the protections provided for people who are terminally ill. There are special…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceWe have retained the household support fund, as the hon. Member rightly points out, and the future arrangements will be set out in due course. However, I can reassure him of the…27 Mar 2025HANSARD Seriously Ill Children: Financial Support for ParentsI am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff) on securing this important…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Seriously Ill Children: Financial Support for ParentsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the pressures on the family in those circumstances. My hon. Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire referred to the fact that…25 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekYes, I would be very glad to meet representatives of the devolved Governments, and to co-operate with them on this, as we do in many other areas.20 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekI welcome that innovative arrangement; if the hon. Member drops me a line about it, I would be interested to look at it further. That is a similar example to what we heard about…20 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekThe situation in Cornwall has also been raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon). My understanding is that the adult skills fund will be devolved…20 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekI am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. We have had a wide-ranging and thoughtful debate. I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen…20 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekI am very glad to do so; I completely agree with my hon. Friend. This week gives us a chance to celebrate British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language. As we have heard, 151,000…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHealth and Disability Green PaperI refer the hon. Gentleman to the previous Government’s proposal to convert PIP from cash into vouchers, which caused huge anxiety. We made it clear in the announcement yesterday…19 Mar 2025HANSARDHealth and Disability Green PaperYesterday afternoon, we set out the Government’s plan to fix the broken system, which gives proper employment support to help hundreds of thousands who are out of work on health…19 Mar 2025HANSARDHealth and Disability Green PaperMy hon. Friend raises an important subject, and as she knows, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has set up the…19 Mar 2025HANSARDHealth and Disability Green PaperI am sure the hon. Lady will welcome the additional £26 billion being invested in the national health service in the coming financial year, for exactly the reasons she set out,…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Motability scheme is highly valued by disabled people around the UK. If the hon. and learned Gentleman has examples of misuse of that scheme, I would very much like to see…17 Mar 2025HANSARDDisability Living AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to press for improvements. We want to change how we think about jobcentres and the benefit system. Our youth work coaches talk a lot to disabled…17 Mar 2025HANSARDDisability Living AllowanceAgain, the hon. Gentleman is right to call for improvements. We want to see improvements in assessments, and he is probably well aware that we will shortly be publishing a Green…17 Mar 2025