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HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentMy Lords, I too pay tribute to the work of my noble friend Lady Monckton. In November 2017, my noble friend Lady May of Maidenhead set the UK Government a target to get 1 million…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her remarks. I will make a short reflection on our discussions on Report and in Committee. I speak for my noble friend Lady Finn in so doing.…23 Oct 2025HANSARDJobcentres: Staffing LevelsMy Lords, further to the questions raised by the right reverend Prelate, more than half of jobcentres are reportedly reducing support for people claiming universal credit due to a…23 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I speak in support of these amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, and I am pleased to have added my name to them, because both amendments make…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I realise that we are approaching the end of Report and the hour is late, but I do want to spend a little time speaking to my Amendment 110. Those who were present in…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, Amendments 86, 87 and 88 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Finn concern the independence and effectiveness of the independent reviewer established under Clause…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group tabled by the Government contain a mixture of substantive safeguards and some technical improvements designed to tidy up and clarify the…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, as it is my first appearance at the opposition Dispatch Box on Report, I echo remarks made by my noble friend Lady Finn on the first day of Report, because I also…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I am very glad to have added my name to this series of amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Vaux of Harrowden. They go to the heart of one of the most serious…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her response, but I am afraid we are still not persuaded on the point we raised around the powers of the independent reviewer to be…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I am afraid that we must oppose Amendments 103 and 113 set out by the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, for the same reasons that we gave in Committee. The…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, there are a number of amendments in this group, each touching on different principles relating to the operation of and limits to the eligibility verification measure. I…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I will keep my remarks brief. Amendment 114 is, as the Minister has indicated, a technical amendment but one that raises a point of some practical importance in how this…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI beg to move.21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI thank the Minister for her remarks. As I said, one of my main aims in speaking to this again was to draw out the actions from the Government on what they are doing to address…21 Oct 2025HANSARDJobs MarketMy Lords, there are woeful and worrying figures showing that the number of working-age people signing off work for sickness benefits has gone up from 2,000 to 5,000 per day—per…13 Oct 2025HANSARDJobs MarketMy Lords, feedback from the latest quarterly ONS vacancy survey for April to June suggests that some firms may not be recruiting new workers or replacing workers who have left,…23 Jul 2025