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HANSARDKickstart: Employer AccessibilityKickstart is only for young people claiming universal credit. Many disabled young people claim employment and support allowance instead. Will the Secretary of State consider…08 Mar 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)The Secretary of State said that the universal credit uplift would be extended on a monthly basis. Does that mean that if circumstances warrant it, the uplift will be continued…04 Mar 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)The Secretary of State will have seen the evidence that disabled people have seen a big increase in their grocery costs during the pandemic, and yet people claiming employment and…04 Mar 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I expected the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) to complain about the fact that this was a massively tax-raising Budget. I am not sure whether, perhaps in a coded…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Social SecurityI too welcome the fact that the Government are increasing the value of compensation in line with inflation, even though they are not required to do so. I want to press the…02 Mar 2021HANSARD PensionsI understand the case for stability in the course of the pandemic; that is represented by the order and I would not quarrel with that at all. However, the order does raise a…01 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Office announced in October a joint review with the Department for Education on how immigration status and no recourse to public funds interacted with free school meals…01 Mar 2021HANSARD Fire Safety BillI support Lords amendment 2, and I hope we will be able to vote on the amendments that Members have tabled. I also hope the Government will finally honour the promises to…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Faith GroupsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for granting this debate. I hope that it will draw attention to the extraordinary scale and value of faith groups’ contributions in response to…11 Feb 2021HANSARD PensionsI wish to raise concerns specifically about the guaranteed minimum pension, which is the subject of the order. Concerns have been raised by the public with the Select Committee.…09 Feb 2021HANSARDSocial SecurityDoes the Minister accept the evidence that disabled people have seen significant cost increases in the course of the pandemic?09 Feb 2021HANSARDSocial SecurityI am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) and I congratulate him on his appointment. This order is an annual routine, but this year is different: the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDSocial SecurityI do not quite understand the point that the Minister is making. As it stands, Government policy is to reduce universal credit by £20 a week from April. Surely it is perfectly…09 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsIt has been estimated that 40,000 people were scammed out of their pensions in the five years after the pension freedoms took effect in 2015; attractive deals on Google or…03 Feb 2021HANSARDSupport for University Students: Covid-19Newham Community Project in my constituency is supporting 1,700 destitute overseas students with weekly food parcels. Those students have paid us a great compliment by choosing…03 Feb 2021HANSARDEducational Settings: ReopeningKensington Primary School in East Ham is the Pearson national teaching awards primary school of the year. The school asked for 100 devices for children to learn, although it needs…26 Jan 2021HANSARDDisabled People: Support for ShieldingBut people claiming severe disability premium cannot switch to universal credit; they are not allowed to. The costs facing many in that group have increased by more than average…25 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for Vulnerable PeopleWhat assessment the Church of England has made of the effectiveness of partnerships between local authorities and faith groups in providing support to vulnerable people during the…21 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Support for Vulnerable PeopleThe “Keeping the Faith” report in November showed the remarkable extent to which local councils have turned to churches and other faith groups during the pandemic, especially for…21 Jan 2021HANSARDUniversal Credit and Working Tax CreditIs it now the policy of the Department, as the Prime Minister suggested at the Liaison Committee last week, that people should move from legacy benefits to universal credit in…18 Jan 2021