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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I recently met a very impressive group of young people who have managed to navigate their way through education while also having…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportI am sure that the right hon. Member will raise that concern with the appropriate colleagues of mine. He is absolutely right to draw attention to the value of the work of learning…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportThe Green Paper will face reality square on. It will set out a very full set of clear policies, it will be frank about what they entail and we will listen to people’s views in…03 Feb 2025HANSARDVulnerable People: Work SupportI think my hon. Friend will greatly welcome the youth guarantee announced in the “Get Britain Working” White Paper. We want to ensure that every single young person gets the same…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI commend the resilience of my hon. Friend. Before Christmas, I spoke at a report launch with the charity Working with Cancer, which focuses on exactly the issue she has raised.…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportThe inactivity bequeathed to us by the previous Government had a huge cost. The shadow Minister may not have noticed that, the week before last, a judicial review was lost on the…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportWe will champion disabled people and those with long-term health conditions. Our “Get Britain Working” plan will support many more who were failed by the last Government to enter…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportI commend my hon. Friend for her previous work. She raises a very important point. We have launched the “Keep Britain Working” review, which is being led by Sir Charlie Mayfield,…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The manifesto on which he and I fought the election committed us to putting the views and voices of disabled people at the heart of what we do.…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportWe will be doing a lot to support disabled people into work and to remove the barriers that are too often in their way, as the hon. Lady rightly says. I have already referred to…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportMy hon. Friend’s important point, which to some extent has already been raised, shows how the health and disability benefits system needs to be reformed. Disabled people should…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportWe want to improve the assessment process, and there will be proposals in the Green Paper on how to do that. If the hon. Lady would like to drop me a line about this particular…03 Feb 2025HANSARDDiffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme Levy 2024-25The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (Levy) Regulations 2014 require active employers’ liability insurers to pay an annual levy, based on their relative market share, for the…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Children and Young People with CancerLike everybody else, I am delighted to find you in the Chair this afternoon, Mrs Lewell-Buck I welcome this debate, as well as the speech that the hon. Member for Wokingham (Clive…08 Jan 2025HANSARD Children and Young People with CancerI will give way, but I will not have very much time.08 Jan 2025HANSARD Children and Young People with CancerI am not able to announce a big change this afternoon along the lines that the hon. Gentleman has suggested, but I do want to comment—and would have done, if I had had a little…08 Jan 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language Report 2023-24This Government are committed to removing barriers and increasing opportunities for deaf and disabled people. The British Sign Language Act 2022 provides us with the ability to do…19 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises a good example of the kind of topic we need to work on across Government, and I was pleased to chair the first meeting of the cross-Government disability…18 Dec 2024HANSARDUniversal CreditWe are committed to reviewing universal credit to ensure that it is doing the job that we need it to. We have started by announcing the fair repayment rate in the Budget, and we…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUniversal CreditWe are watching very carefully the progress of migration from tax credits to universal credit, which will be complete in the early part of next year, but I would be very happy to…16 Dec 2024