Oeddech chi'n golygu child benefit can?
Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential effect of (a) increasing the child element of Universal Credit by at least £15 a week and (b) ending the benefit cap on levels of children living in poverty.
Shona Robison: In March 2022, we published analysis that suggests that the Scottish child payment could reduce relative child poverty by an estimated 5 percentage points in 2023-24, lifting 50,000 children out of relative poverty in Scotland. Of course, the United Kingdom Government could use its powers to tackle child poverty and the cost of living crisis by—just to name a few measures—introducing a...
Nicola Sturgeon: ...much with Emma Roddick. I think that the Conservatives should be deeply ashamed of the impact of their welfare policies. We have known for a long time that the current United Kingdom Government benefits system is not fit for purpose. People across the country are paying the price for that every day in ways that Emma Roddick has pointed out. Over many years, we have called for improvements....
Fleur Anderson: .... They do not want to visit food banks, but they are a lifeline in emergency times. Instead of blaming people who go to food banks, the hon. Member for Ashfield should have been looking at the two-child benefit cap, the bedroom tax and the frozen local housing allowance. I commend Sadiq Khan for bringing free school meals to London schools—they will make a huge difference. In London,...
Philippa Whitford: ...end up costing more in hospital later. We also spend a massive extra 43% on social care. That allowed us to provide free personal care, valued at £86,000, when we heard about the potential care cap in England. Providing free personal care, which in Scotland includes people younger than 65 if they have a need for it, allows people to live independent, high-quality lives in their own home...
Mims Davies: ...Housing Element, had their rent fully covered by their total Universal Credit payment. Total Universal Credit payments comprise of the Standard Allowance, as well as other elements such as the child, disability, and housing elements. The sum of these elements can be reduced for the final payment for instance, if a household is in receipt of earnings, has beyond a certain level of savings...
Shona Robison: ...a key priority. We are doing what we can within our powers. In the previous financial year, we allocated around £3 billion to support families, including with our major investment in the Scottish child payment, which is literally helping to keep food on the table with £25 per week per child for eligible families. We are investing more than £84 million in discretionary housing payments...
David Linden: ...went further: to support better those who are the most vulnerable financially, the kind of folks I see at my Friday surgeries at Baillieston, Easterhouse, Parkhead and Cranhill. The harsh yet inescapable reality is that many of the structural problems that the very poorest in our society face are the result of a policy framework put in place by this British Government: policies like the...
Tim Farron: ...passionate about. The hon. Lady made an excellent speech. I just want to say a few words—I will hopefully take less than six minutes—to contribute to the debate. The Government’s position on childcare is clearly that the best way to tackle poverty is to have people in work, and therefore providing childcare is about making sure that people can work. It is also about the vital...
Kenneth Gibson: ...forgoing £308 million in revenue to freeze the business rates poundage while ensuring that 100,000 businesses pay no rates at all—keeping the shutters up on shops and staff in work. All Scottish benefits will be uprated in line with consumer prices index inflation. The SNP Government introduced the Scottish child payment, which is unique in these islands. Initially £10 per week, it has...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett: ...'s Government, further to the remarks by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 24 January (HL Deb cols 93–94), what plans they have, if any, (1) to publish regular data on the numbers of families and children affected simultaneously by the benefit cap and the two-child limit, and (2) to monitor the impact on these families and children.
Maggie Chapman: The old adage “You wouldn’t start from here” applies to the social security system that we are trying to create in Scotland. We have had more than a decade of austerity; the two-child limit, also known as the rape clause; the benefits cap; and cuts to universal credit. Each of those decisions or policies, and so many more, were taken or implemented by the UK Government, and they make...
Guy Opperman: ...and the great efforts made by the Government to support this country through it, and any fiscal difficulties caused by those efforts, this Government are supporting the most vulnerable and uprating benefits by in excess of 10%. That is on top of the cost of living support to the tune of £37 billion provided last May, and what will be provided in this coming year. I am proud to make the...
Jim Shannon: ...that we do so. We were hoping to present a ten-minute rule motion on this issue in the near future. Our slot is probably in July of this year. I and my party feel that it is grossly unfair that the child benefit cap has remained the same for 10 years, while the price of bread has risen by 30% in Northern Ireland in this year alone. The cost of the diesel needed for people to get to work is...
Viscount Younger of Leckie: The Government is committed to reducing child poverty and supporting low-income families. We will spend over £245bn through the welfare system in 2022/23 including £111bn on people of working age. In 2023/24, subject to parliamentary approval, we are uprating all benefit rates and State Pensions by 10.1%. In order to increase the number of households who can benefit from these uprating...
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to remove the benefit cap for large families to help tackle child poverty.
Mims Davies: ...with their Ministerial counterparts in other Departments, taking a collective approach to the policies and interventions that can make a difference. The Government is committed to reducing child poverty and supporting low-income families. We will spend over £245bn through the welfare system in 2022/23 including £111bn on people of working age. In 2023/24, subject to parliamentary...
Emma Roddick: ...realise that it is a ridiculous concept that we are making progressive decisions here, such as those on the rent freeze, the new deal for tenants and anti-poverty measures that include the Scottish child payment, within a financial context that has been set by a right-wing Tory Government elsewhere, whose ideas Scotland has overwhelmingly voted down over and over again. It is a nonsense....
Universal Credit: Benefit Cap and Two Child Limit - Question
