Results 1-20 of 373 for bedroom tax

Previous Business – Commons: Select Committee (18 June 2013)

Scottish Affairs: The impact of the Bedroom Tax & other changes to housing benefit in Scotland. 2:30 pm; Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Witnesses: Keith Dryburgh, Policy Manager, Citizens Advice Scotland

Nato: Topical Questions (17 June 2013)

Tom Blenkinsop: Government guidelines that were supposed to exempt the families of members of the armed forces from the bedroom tax require a letter to be sent by those in the chain of command to confirm the deployment of the soldiers in question on the front line in Afghanistan. Can the Minister tell me how many armed forces families are in rent arrears as a result—I have heard that it is a large...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 91 - Charge to tax (13 June 2013)

Sheila Gilmore: What concerns me is that we are regularly told about the necessity for this and that to be cut. For example, tax credits, on which many low-income families rely on considerably, have been extensively reduced in the past few years. The Child Poverty Action Group has published its assessment of what is happening with child poverty, and it shows just how big the cuts in the tax credit system...

Children: Contact with Fathers — Question (13 June 2013)

Lord McKenzie of Luton: My Lords, is it not the case that, for many young people with separated parents, overnight stays are made expensive, if not impossible, by the bedroom tax?

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 June 2013)

Fiona Mactaggart: ...champions. I thank the EU for funding it, and I say to Google, “We’re glad you have increased the amount you give to the foundation, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want your taxes.” I want to focus on the second part of the motion, which considers the broader issue of child protection on the internet. We know that 90% of children live in homes that have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 June 2013)

Catherine McKinnell: This week, Newcastle city council has revealed that rent arrears have increased by more than £550,000 since the bedroom tax was introduced in April. Furthermore, 60% of affected households are falling into arrears. When will the Prime Minister admit that this devastating policy risks costing more than it saves?

Children and Families Bill: Clause 107 — Transitional, transitory or saving provision (11 June 2013)

Hugh Bayley: ...I understand why he could not do so during his speech on Report. I rise on behalf of a constituent who fosters three children. As a consequence of the Government’s decision to exempt only one bedroom from the bedroom tax for foster carers, she is required to pay £14 a week to carry on fostering. If she moved into smaller accommodation, she could foster only one of those three...

Children and Families Bill: New Clause 3 — Regulation of child performance (11 June 2013)

Lisa Nandy: ...a witness? I would be grateful if he could give more information about that. I tabled new clause 18 notwithstanding our strong opposition to the under-occupation penalty, known to some as the bedroom tax. We are extremely concerned that that policy will put people off taking care of children whom they otherwise would have looked after because of the financial implications. We want to...

Homeless People: Night Shelters — Question (11 June 2013)

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top: ...as possible from hostel accommodation in to independent living. However, does he realise that that is now being put at threat because of the changes to the benefits system and, of course, the bedroom tax? In Newcastle, the local housing company has had to warn the Cyrenians, which is the biggest supplier, if you like, of work with the homeless, that it is coming to the stage where it will...

Previous Business – Commons: Select Committee (11 June 2013)

Scottish Affairs: The impact of the Bedroom Tax & other changes to housing benefit in Scotland. 2:30 pm; Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Witnesses: Dr Mary Taylor, Chief Executive, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and David Bookbinder, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland

Housing — Motion to Take Note (6 June 2013) See 7 other results from this debate

Baroness Hanham: ...on those sites and can be supported by both public and private finance. The empty homes policy and the decent homes policy have been successful. There is much evidence for that. A number of noble Lords raised what they call the bedroom tax, and what I call the spare room subsidy. The noble Lords, Lord Tope and Lord Palmer, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Blackstone and Lady Turner, all...

Business of the House (6 June 2013)

Tom Blenkinsop: ...’s new requirement for a member of the armed forces to get their chain of command to confirm they are deployed on operations, in order for service personnel to secure an exemption from the bedroom tax? Is that efficient and practical when people are deployed to Afghanistan or at sea? May we have a statement on how many members of the armed forces are still awaiting that confirmation,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (4 June 2013)

Paul Flynn: Why do the Government move at the speed of a striking cobra in further impoverishing the already poor with the bedroom tax, and why, in the case of reforming the parasitic incubus on the body politic of lobbying, do they move at the speed of an arthritic sloth?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Council Tax Benefit (3 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Pamela Nash: The changes to council tax benefit and the subsequent cuts have come in at the same time as the freezing of child benefit and working tax credit, the linking of benefits to CPI rather than RPI and, of course, the introduction of the bedroom tax. How can the Government justify this multiple attack on low-income working families on the same day as bringing in a tax cut for millionaires?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (3 June 2013)

Paul Goggins: ...changes on housing associations? The Wythenshawe community housing group in my constituency estimates that rent arrears will go up by about £1 million this year following the introduction of the bedroom tax. Do Ministers agree that when universal credit comes in, any claimant already in rent arrears should have their housing costs paid directly and immediately to their landlord?

Petition — Bedroom Tax (20 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Nicholas Dakin: I am pleased to be able to present the petition on behalf of residents of Scunthorpe on the impact of the bedroom tax, particularly in the light of headlines over the weekend reporting the huge leap in demand for emergency hardship handouts for tenants as a result of this pernicious policy. The petition states: The Petition of residents of the UK, Declares that the Petitioners believe that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Under-occupancy Penalty (Wales) (20 May 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Paul Flynn: BBC Wales reports that for every 70 victims of the bedroom tax, only one alternative unit of accommodation is available. That means that 69 out of every 70 will have no choice but to endure this tax, which is unfair, impractical and will further impoverish the already poor.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Pensioners (20 May 2013)

Nick Raynsford: What does the Minister have to say to my constituent, a 91-year-old pensioner who is occupying a four-bedroom property and has been told that, because the priority has to be given to allocating smaller homes to people currently being hit by the bedroom tax, she has no immediate prospect of being housed in smaller, more suitable accommodation?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (20 May 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

William Bain: Seven weeks in, the true devastating consequences of the bedroom tax are becoming clear: claims for discretionary housing payments up 338% in a month, and in Glasgow rising to 5,500, the highest in the entire country. Is it not the case that the Secretary of State has not provided local councils with the resources they need to deal with a crisis of his making?

Economic Growth (15 May 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Sheila Gilmore: ...a couple of issues, including Europe and child care ratios. Can we therefore assume that they support all the other unfair measures on which they have chosen not to flex their muscles, such as the bedroom tax and people losing contributory employment allowance after a year?