Parliamentary search - Social Security

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

442 c1580-612

Session

2005-06

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Department for Work and Pensions

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House of Commons chamber

Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2006
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 442 c1580 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take motion 3 on the Order Paper:"That the draft Guaranteed Minim...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I am satisfied that the orders are compatible with the European convention on human rights. The upr...

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Stephen Timms | 442 c1581 (Link to this contribution) We continue to be extremely active in promoting the take-up of pension credit. There has been a larg...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1581 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister comfortable with the fact that, according to Government figures, about 1.5 million p...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1580-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised an interesting point. I think that the RPI is the right basis on which to ...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1582 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman recognises the nobility of the Government’s aim and hope that he a...

Anne Begg | 442 c1582 (Link to this contribution) The Minister rightly highlighted the Government’s success in redistributing wealth to the poorest pe...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1582-3 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. It was a scandal that so many pensioners were on a means-t...

Peter Bone | 442 c1583 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that an error appears to have built up over the years. The Secretary of State is requ...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 442 c1581 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has mentioned the winter fuel allowance. People are grateful for the £200, but it has b...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1581-2 (Link to this contribution) I cannot announce an increase in the winter fuel allowance. When the allowance was introduced, it wa...

Philip Hollobone | 442 c1582 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the nobility of the Government’s aim of improving pensioner incomes, but does the Minis...

John Bercow | 442 c1584 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, particularly because I have recently enjoyed a period ...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1583-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will welcome the fact that the basic state pension has been uprated w...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1584-5 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the recent birth of his child. I am delighted that he wa...

David Leslie Taylor | 442 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a member of such a scheme, although I have not reached state retirement age...

James Plaskitt | 442 c1611-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman again seeks to assert that there has been a recent decision or change of policy, ...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1611 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that all the things that he has just described depend fundamentally on pens...

James Plaskitt | 442 c1608-11 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to make headway. The hon. Gentleman also dwelt on the issue of fraud and error in the be...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1608 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

James Plaskitt | 442 c1608 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman waits until the Government respond to Lord Turner’s report, he will find that ...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I wonder how the hon. Gentleman reconciles the remarks that he has just made about means-testing wit...

James Plaskitt | 442 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) We have had a short but, nevertheless, lively debate. I have been struck by the fact that the hon. M...

David Ruffley | 442 c1606-7 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I should like to respond to the debate, which has been interesting, imp...

Philip Dunne | 442 c1606 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your guidance. I was merely trying to draw to t...

Speaker | 442 c1606 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have given the hon. Gentleman some leeway, but he is going rather wide of the mark. I repea...

Philip Dunne | 442 c1603-5 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of your strictures, Madam Deputy Speaker, to confine our remarks to the topic for deb...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1602-3 (Link to this contribution) That is my next point. At the election, the Conservative party laid out proposals to help to lift pe...

Philip Dunne | 442 c1605-6 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. Indeed, until two years ago when the Government made the change, it made no fina...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1605 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the most significant disincentives for people on low incom...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) Many are still claiming incapacity benefit today.

Graham Stuart | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, but I hope that I might be allowed a final sally in respect of incapacity b...

Peter Bone | 442 c1602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech and has reached the crux of the issue. If the Government ...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1600-2 (Link to this contribution) That is true, but it is why it is all the more shameful and sad that the Government have squandered ...

David Ruffley | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) We are all aware of them.

Danny Alexander | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is in full flow about something for which he feels great passion. I do not want t...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1598-9 (Link to this contribution) I believe that Baroness Thatcher is entitled to other benefits these days. If uprating had at least ...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your strictures, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am aware of them and will observe them meticu...

Speaker | 442 c1600 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Gentleman replies, perhaps I might remind hon. Members again that we are deba...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1597-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention and I agree that that should be a priority. The DWP has a number...

Philip Dunne | 442 c1597 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is extraordinary that for the 16th or 17th year in succession,...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1597 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention and I am aware of the excellent research to which the hon. Gentl...

Jeremy Hunt | 442 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being very generous in giving way. Is he aware of resear...

Speaker | 442 c1595 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going to enter into a debate on the Post Office card ac...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1595 (Link to this contribution) I intend to say something later about the disincentives to work that will continue if the orders are...

Alan Reid | 442 c1595 (Link to this contribution) If pensioners living in remote areas find that because of Government policy their pensions increase ...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1595 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to enter into a great debate on the Post Office card account, and I am grateful for ...

David Ruffley | 442 c1596 (Link to this contribution) This seems something of a groundhog day, in that the hon. Gentleman is repeating the speech that I a...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point. If, as a result of the Government’s policy, the me...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, I think, for that intervention. If the hon. Gentleman had been paying closer attentio...

Daniel Kawczynski | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. He is right: we were meant to be together in the Falkland Islands today....

Jeremy Hunt | 442 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that although money is an important element of the eradication of pove...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I believe that one of the main reasons why many young people are not making their own pension provis...

Speaker | 442 c1588 (Link to this contribution) Order. I again remind the hon. Gentleman that perhaps a passing reference to the new deal I could ac...

David Ruffley | 442 c1586 (Link to this contribution) We welcome this debate, and I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the Government’s proposals...

Anne Begg | 442 c1586 (Link to this contribution) The Conservatives constantly criticise means-testing and targeting, both of which effectively give m...

David Ruffley | 442 c1586-7 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady looks at Hansard tomorrow, she will see that I referred to ““mass means-testing””. ...

Speaker | 442 c1587 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are not discussing the Green Paper today? We are disc...

Jeremy Hunt | 442 c1585 (Link to this contribution) The Minister talked about tackling poverty among children. Is he aware that income poverty among dis...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will support the approach supported by his hon. Friend the shadow Sec...

Jim Sheridan | 442 c1585 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Stephen Timms | 442 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend; I will not give way again. Our uprating measures maintain our commit...

Anne Begg | 442 c1590 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps this is an occasion on which if the hon. Gentleman shows us his, we will show him ours. As h...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1588-9 (Link to this contribution) Unlike my hon. Friend, I have no intention of doing so, if indeed he did so intend. Like him, I am c...

David Ruffley | 442 c1589 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point in his own way.

Graham Stuart | 442 c1588 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

David Ruffley | 442 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way, but I hope that my hon. Friend does not fall foul of Madam Deputy Speaker’s ...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1590 (Link to this contribution) Disgraceful.

David Ruffley | 442 c1590 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says from a sedentary position, it is indeed disgraceful. I repeat that by 2050 th...

Stephen Timms | 442 c1589 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman that I will receive the announcement that I think he has been making a...

David Ruffley | 442 c1589-90 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the Minister really needs to pay closer attention to what we are saying. It is not ...

David Ruffley | 442 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sure that those who are to receive the uprating and...

David Ruffley | 442 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I will not be led astray, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just try my best to be courteous to Members who in...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 442 c1591 (Link to this contribution) And two changes of Secretary of State.

David Ruffley | 442 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) And, as my hon. Friend reminds me from a sedentary position, after two changes of Secretary of State...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1592-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the chance to debate the orders before the House, which, like Conservative Members, Libera...

Jeremy Hunt | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the outcome of the euro debate was the Government’s adoption of...

Danny Alexander | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I see that we are trying your patience again, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I shall not respond to that i...

Daniel Kawczynski | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Danny Alexander | 442 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, with whom I expected to be in the Falkland Islands today.

David Ruffley | 442 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Lady will accept two things. First, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witn...

Speaker | 442 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has been given some leeway. Perhaps he will now confine his remarks to the...

David Ruffley | 442 c1587-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I took the trouble to look up the last fo...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the speeches by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Ruff...

Graham Stuart | 442 c1598 (Link to this contribution) : Bring back Mrs. Thatcher!

Stephen Timms | 442 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006, which was laid before t...

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