Parliamentary search - Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

716 cc880-913

Session

2022-23

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill 2022-23
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Bills
House of Commons

Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill: HL Bill 34 of 2022-23
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Research briefings

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 716 c882 (Link to this contribution)

I must inform the House that the reasoned amendment in the name of Kirsty Blackman has not been s...

Therese Coffey | 716 c882 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The cost of living challenge facing...

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Jonathan Edwards | 716 c882 (Link to this contribution)

There is an issue with people who live in park homes—I have a few sites in my constituency—becaus...

Therese Coffey | 716 cc882-3 (Link to this contribution)

My understanding is that the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my ...

Stephen Timms | 716 c883 (Link to this contribution)

I just want to check one point. At the moment, about 150,000 working-age people who receive unive...

Therese Coffey | 716 c883 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, that is the case. I was planning to cover that later. For the record, I will still make that...

Hywel Williams | 716 c883 (Link to this contribution)

One group of people who receive universal credit and are in some difficulty are those who lose so...

Therese Coffey | 716 cc883-4 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is incorrect in saying that money is denied to people. The whole point of rece...

Marsha De Cordova | 716 c884 (Link to this contribution)

In opening, the Secretary of State alluded to the fact that 6 million disabled people would quali...

Therese Coffey | 716 c884 (Link to this contribution)

The warm home discount is not relevant to the Bill, but I understand the point. It is the policy ...

Jonathan Edwards | 716 c884 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Therese Coffey | 716 cc884-5 (Link to this contribution)

No, I will not.

This Government have supported and continue to support those most in need. ...

Jonathan Edwards | 716 c885 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Therese Coffey | 716 c885 (Link to this contribution)

I will not take any further interventions from the hon. Gentleman, because he has already interve...

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 c885 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State will of course know that her figures on absolute poverty and relative pove...

Therese Coffey | 716 c885 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman may not be aware that I cannot make any declaration about the rises in b...

Richard Holden | 716 c885 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State confirm that the payments in this Bill, to almost 25,000 of my consti...

Therese Coffey | 716 c886 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right to point out the additional measures. I do not know exactly how many peop...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 716 c886 (Link to this contribution)

I call the shadow Secretary of State, Jonathan Ashworth.

2.45 pm

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 cc886-7 (Link to this contribution)

Let me begin by being clear with the Secretary of State: we do not intend to divide the House. We...

Jonathan Edwards | 716 c887 (Link to this contribution)

Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that missing from the Bill is any support for unpaid car...

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 cc887-8 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman anticipates a point I am going to make, which is why now is a good moment to t...

Marsha De Cordova | 716 c888 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent point, and he probably articulated it even better tha...

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 cc888-890 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I can assure her that she speaks with an eloquence on these m...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 716 c890 (Link to this contribution)

I have now to announce the result of today’s deferred Division on the Abortion (Northern Ireland)...

Lee Anderson | 716 cc890-1 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you for calling me so early in the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is a great privilege.

Kirsty Blackman | 716 c892 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman thinks that is very generous, how does it compare with benefits systems acr...

Lee Anderson | 716 c892 (Link to this contribution)

I will tell the hon. Lady what is generous: a single parent, like my friend and I were all those ...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 716 c892 (Link to this contribution)

I call the SNP spokesperson, Kirsty Blackman.

3.8 pm

Kirsty Blackman | 716 cc892-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak for the SNP on the Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill. The Chan...

Stephen Crabb | 716 c894 (Link to this contribution)

I am listening very carefully to the hon. Lady’s arguments, and she is making some important and ...

Kirsty Blackman | 716 cc895-7 (Link to this contribution)

The Chancellor of the Exchequer did listen to the arguments that were made, and I absolutely welc...

Stephen Timms | 716 c896 (Link to this contribution)

I am very pleased that the Bill is in front of us. The Select Committee has been clear in the pas...

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 c896 (Link to this contribution)

I have a question for my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee. Is he aware that, ...

Stephen Timms | 716 c898 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. The Select Committee will certainly be looking...

Stephen Crabb | 716 c898 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman is making an interesting and important point about how we do upratings. ...

Stephen Timms | 716 cc898-9 (Link to this contribution)

That would help—just modernising the old systems would help, and I will say something about that ...

Kirsty Blackman | 716 c899 (Link to this contribution)

On that note, the new systems that we have created in Scotland under Social Security Scotland are...

Stephen Timms | 716 cc899-900 (Link to this contribution)

It certainly does need to be done. I am pleased to tell the hon. Lady that on Monday the Select C...

Sarah Olney | 716 cc900-3 (Link to this contribution)

It is vital that we provide additional support to those in receipt of disability and means-tested...

Nigel Evans | 716 cc903-4 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry you have had to wait, Mr Mills.

3.52 pm

Nigel Mills | 716 cc904-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was not planning to speak, but I have been tempted to say a f...

Karen Buck | 716 cc906-8 (Link to this contribution)

This has been a short but useful debate. The Opposition will not oppose or seek to delay these pa...

David Rutley | 716 cc908-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank those who have contributed to this debate. I echo the points made by my right hon. Friend...

Stephen Timms | 716 c909 (Link to this contribution)

I want to go back to what the Minister said about the benefit cap, and I welcome the point he mad...

David Rutley | 716 c910 (Link to this contribution)

There is a statutory duty to review benefit cap levels at least once every five years, and this w...

Jonathan Ashworth | 716 c910 (Link to this contribution)

Twinkle toes!

David Rutley | 716 cc910-1 (Link to this contribution)

Whatever we want to call him, he will take this forward with aplomb, that is for sure.

Ther...

Kirsty Blackman | 716 c911 (Link to this contribution)

Some household support funds ran out months earlier than expected. Does the Minister expect the n...

David Rutley | 716 cc911-2 (Link to this contribution)

The current tranche of household support fund is on top of all the other benefits we have talked ...

Subjects

Disability

Benefits rules

Carers

Eligibility

Government assistance

Pension credit

Pensioners

Low incomes

Poverty

Payments

Means-tested benefits

Cost of living

Universal credit

Household Support Fund

Legislation

Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill 2022-23

Link

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