Oeddech chi'n golygu to child benefit can?
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...
Jim Shannon: ...to the debate. Inflation and the cost of living are really hurting people in Northern Ireland. The right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) set the scene when he referred to child poverty and adult poverty in Northern Ireland, and he was right. I have a staff member who deals with nothing else but benefits, five days a week, and other staff members fill in. That gives...
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...
Fulton MacGregor: ...cannot be accused of playing on safe ground. Inflation has soared to its highest level in nearly 40 years, hitting 10.5 per cent in December. Brexit added almost £6 billion to UK food bills in the two years to the end of 2021, disproportionately affecting the poorest households. I see that today Mark Carney was again criticising the effect of the Brexit decision on the UK economy. In...
Universal Credit: Benefit Cap and Two Child Limit - Question
Tom Pursglove: ...and cover a broad range of contingencies, like the recovery of fines to prevent incarceration, the continuation of supply of electricity or gas, payment of rent arrears to prevent homelessness, child maintenance liabilities to their children, and provision for one-off items of expenditure through advances and the repayment of debts. Given this broad range of circumstances, there is no...
Humza Yousaf: ...and they should hang their heads in shame. I could not agree more with Emma Harper, and I share her concerns. A series of UK Government welfare reforms has eroded the real-terms value of reserved benefits. I am deeply concerned about the UK Government’s welfare policies as the rising costs of essentials are far harder for people on the lowest incomes to afford. We have repeatedly called...
Christina McKelvie: ...Government analysis highlighted that, if key Westminster welfare reforms were reversed, it could put £780 million into the pockets of Scottish households and lift 70,000 people, including 30,000 children, out of poverty in 2023-24. The Scottish Government stands by its call to the UK Government to increase universal credit by £25 per week and extend it to the means-tested legacy...
Ben Macpherson: ...UK Government to target additional support to those people who are already struggling. That support should include a £25 uplift in universal credit, which should be extended to means-tested legacy benefits, and, of course, an end to the benefit cap and the two-child limit. We will continue to press the UK Government to undertake those changes and use all the levers at its disposal to...
John Swinney: ...cost of living crisis. Taken together, in 2022-23, the Scottish Government has allocated almost £3 billion to help to mitigate the cost of living crisis in these difficult days. However, there are two key points that I must advise Parliament about in relation to the budget for this current financial year. First, despite reductions in spending of £1.2 billion, the financial pressures are...
Hannah Bardell: ...over the Good Friday agreement, threatened peace in Northern Ireland and abandoned its people for their narrow anti-EU ideology. The Tory Government have destroyed the UK’s global reputation, cut benefits to the poorest and brought forward policies such as the abhorrent rape clause and two-child cap, which makes the lives of many vulnerable women even more precarious. They have crashed...
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the two-child benefit cap on trends in the level of child poverty.
Baroness Sherlock: ..., I will cover everything in one speech, so it may be slightly longer than normal. These are all probing amendments, which I have tabled simply to allow us to explore how the proposal to front-load child benefit would work. I would like to look at three sets of issues. First off, there is the value of child benefit paid up front. At Second Reading, the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, argued—and...
Kirsty Blackman: ...made by those on the Government Benches. We are not seeing people better able to afford their energy bills; their energy bills are still significantly more than they were this time last year. The benefit cap still needs to grow massively to keep pace with its 2013 levels. The childcare allowance included within universal credit is at the same level it was when it was first introduced, when...
Guy Opperman: ...Friend the Member for East Surrey (Claire Coutinho), and I have had a preliminary meeting. The country wants to try to assist parents who want to go back to work. There is a real desire to address childcare on a long-term basis to ensure that parents who wish to can go back to work. There are many discussions about all aspects of how we reform, improve and expand childcare in this...
Collette Stevenson: I welcome the actions in the Covid recovery strategy to address inequalities and the role that the Scottish child payment will have in supporting families. However, recent analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research shows that removing the two-child limit and the benefit cap could lift 300,000 children in the United Kingdom out of poverty. Does the Deputy First Minister agree that,...
Marie McNair: ...mitigate the cost of living crisis. Instead, it kept the five-week waiting time for universal credit, which is forcing people to go into debt. Millions of pounds need to go towards mitigating the two-child policy, the Tories’ abhorrent rape clause, the bedroom tax and the benefits cap. Instead—to just give one example—the budget should have matched our Scottish child payment. The...
Lyn Brown: After 12 years of Tory Government, the outlook is just so bleak. Forecasters now say that real wages may not return to 2008 levels until 2027—not one lost decade, but two. What does that mean for Newham, where we already have the highest rate of homelessness in the country and the second-highest rate of child poverty? Last Friday, I was at one of our overwhelmed food banks and I heard about...
