Universal Basic Income

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Davies. I warmly congratulate the hon. Member ...

We have had an interesting debate already this afternoon, and I warmly congratulate my hon. Frien...

As ever, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I start by congratulating ...

Would my hon. Friend accept by contrast that Labour’s working tax credit, after initial teething ...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend has, as ever, hit the nail on the head. I am proud of Labour’s record ...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, as always, Mr Davies. I would like to jo...

Oldham East.

I am so sorry.

I think she confirmed that the official Opposition are considering a univers...

I think the Minister is getting away with himself. I said it would be useful to explore it. That ...

I am grateful for the clarification.

A universal basic income or similar systems that guara...

I have got the Compass figures in front of me. The report says that the net cost of the hybrid mo...

I think the hon. Lady has the relevant page in front of her; I do not, but I have it nearby. From...

rose—

rose—

I am spoilt for choice. I give way to the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth.

I am interested that the Minister is picking on one model. We need to be clear that there is a ra...

I am more than happy to clarify that the report looks at five models. There are three different p...

As we have heard here and in the main Chamber on a number of occasions, when the money is require...

I do not know where to go with that. I am not sure that it is true that the money is there; in fa...

Everyone watching the debate will be interested if the Minister can tell us which of those initia...

One of the main things that I am in the Chamber to say is that a universal basic income has a num...

I hope that the Minister, in his analysis of the Government’s track record in relation to paid wo...

If the hon. Lady will bear with me, the claimant count is close to its lowest for 40 years, unemp...

There is so much in that sentence, and the preceding ones, that I do not know what to pick on fir...

According to this morning’s figures, we still have good wage growth in this country, and at a tim...

Order. There has been some sedentary commentary, but we have until 17.38, so if people want to as...

Will the Minister give way?

indicated assent.

Three out of four people in low-paid work are still in low-paid work 10 years on. How is the syst...

Helping people on relatively low incomes to increase their incomes by moving up the hours scale o...

Will the Minister give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman forgive me if I press on? The extremely important point of technological ...

I invite Ronnie Cohen to wind up the debate, for a couple of minutes.

5.33 pm

Thank you very much—and it is Cowan, as in cow, as in “moo”.

Cowan—sorry.

I thank the Minister, the hon. Members for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) and for ...