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Jenny Gilruth: I go back to my response to Ms Duncan-Glancy. It is important that we have context about the powers that the Government has in this Parliament and the external factors that undoubtedly impact on our children and young people. Our analysis, which was published in April last year, estimated that reversing key UK Government welfare changes that have taken place just since 2015 could lift an...
Shirley-Anne Somerville: ...with campaigners that it should be paid at the same amount to everyone. We already take action to protect people against the impact of UK Government policies, including the bedroom tax and the benefit cap, but we cannot mitigate every action on our fixed budget. The Scottish child payment was doubled in April 2022, to £20 per eligible child, and it increased again to £25 when we extended...
Mary Robinson: ...a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. It is also a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck), with whom I am pleased to co-chair the APPG for the child of the north. I congratulate her on securing this important debate. I also wish to join my co-chair in thanking all the members, expert witnesses and researchers for their work in producing...
Stewart Hosie: ...rather obvious that, when it comes to the cost of living, the Government should have three urgent tasks. The first is continuing to help families with high energy costs, not by simply freezing the cap—although it is not really a cap at all—but by reducing it from £2,500 to £2,000, as well as maintaining the energy bills support scheme. The second is to bear down on inflation; forcing...
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the two child limit on benefit recipients; and if he will review the cap.
Hywel Williams: Have the two-child limit and the benefit cap increased child poverty?
Kate Osamor: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 169369 on Social Security Benefits, for what reason people who are unable to work because they are the primary carer for a child under the age of 3 are subject to the benefit cap.
Shirley-Anne Somerville: ...something remotely similar as well. Housing is also vital in the fight against poverty and will be a focus for the Minister for Housing and me in this portfolio. An estimated 3,200 households with children have been helped into affordable housing in each year to March 2022. We will also, of course, continue working towards our target of providing 110,000 affordable homes by 2032. Our next...
...on motion S6M-08589, in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville, is: For 67, Against 30, Abstentions 17. Motion agreed to, That the Parliament commits to continuing the national mission on tackling child poverty; acknowledges that the most recent poverty statistics remain too high and that all levels of government must take action to reduce poverty and inequality in society; recognises the...
Meg Hillier: ..., so that everybody in a school—the teachers, the support staff; indeed, where appropriate, other pupils—understand the actions that need to be taken in different circumstances for different children, so that all staff are aware of that information. They cannot all be aware in the moment, so there need to be proper records; that way, staff can access the records on an individual child...
Tom Pursglove: The Government understands the pressures people, including families with a disabled child or children, are facing with the cost of living. Children with a visual impairment may be entitled to Disability Living Allowance (DLA), which is a contribution towards the extra costs associated with being disabled. Recipients are free to choose how they spend DLA, and there is no requirement for them...
Kate Osamor: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2023 to Question 159058 on Social Security Benefits, what (a) advice and (b) other support his Department provides to claimants who are subject to the benefit cap and the primary carer of a child under three.
Kate Osamor: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the benefit cap at incentivising claimants who are the primary carer of a child aged under three into work.
Mims Davies: The Government is committed to reducing child poverty and supporting low-income families. We will spend around £276bn through the welfare system in Great Britain in 2023/24 including around £124bn on people of working age and children. With 1.12 million job vacancies across the UK, our focus remains firmly on supporting individuals, including parents, to move into, and progress in work,...
Baroness Wyld: ...the Conservative Party, as well as gaining cross-party support in the other place. I pay tribute to all those who have spoken so passionately and sensitively about their personal experiences of children born prematurely, including Luke Hall MP and David Linden MP. I give thanks to the APPG on Premature and Sick Babies. I am enormously grateful to Bliss and other charities that provide...
Lord Evans of Rainow: ...House and giving us the opportunity to debate this important issue, and I thank those who have participated and engaged on the Bill. The Government think that it is of utmost importance to support children and families and are committed to helping parents into work. That requires a balanced system that provides strong work incentives and support for those who need it, but which ensures a...
Mims Davies: ...the Government, I commit to continue to support women at all ages and career stages. I fully recognise that, as the hon. the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patricia Gibson) said, supporting children is an important role. Family life and that support is important. I hope to cover quite a lot of the questions—I am keen to make my speech, too—but I want to point out that over the...
Viscount Younger of Leckie: ...bring along to see for myself what is happening. It is very much what I would like to do—genuinely. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for initiating this debate on the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit & Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023. This annual legislation informs rent officers in the Valuation Office Agency, the VOA, and rent services in Scotland and Wales of...
Margaret Greenwood: ...rate tax band. The IFS has said that the freeze would cost most basic rate taxpayers £500 from April and most higher rate payers £1,000. It is difficult to see how that will not have an impact on child poverty. Alison Garnham, the chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, has pointed out that the Budget contained “no mention of the UK’s 4 million children in poverty”. She...
Viscount Younger of Leckie: ...the Chancellor announce a range of employment measures in last week’s Budget that will provide further support to help people enter work and increase their working hours. This includes extending childcare support so that eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks of the year from when their child is nine months old. For...
