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- Upcoming Business – Commons: Select Committee (18 June 2013)
Scottish Affairs: The impact of the Bedroom Tax & other changes to housing benefit in Scotland.
Witnesses: Keith Dryburgh, Policy Manager, Citizens Advice Scotland- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit (17 June 2013)
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent in housing benefit for residents of (a) houses in multiple occupation, (b) the private rented sector, (c) local authority housing and (d) other social housing in the last year for which figures are available; and what the average cost per person was in each such case in each of the last 10 years.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing (17 June 2013)
Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been allocated to each local authority in discretionary housing payment in each of the last five years; and how much has been allocated to each local authority in 2013-14.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing (17 June 2013)
Alan Reid: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was allocated in discretionary housing payments; and what amounts were actually paid out to tenants in each local authority in Scotland in the most recent year for which figures are available.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing (17 June 2013)
Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether adult children who are in the armed forces but who continue to live with parents during periods of leave, will be treated as continuing to live at home for the purposes of applying the size criteria when deployed on operations.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing (17 June 2013)
Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the guidance published to local authorities on 25 March 2013, for the purposes of the spare room subsidy, what constitutes living with parents when applied to adult children who are in the armed forces but who continue to live with parents when not deployed on operations.
- Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (17 June 2013)
Steve Webb: ...the regulations, which were not consulted on because they did not represent changes to policy. Amendments to child maintenance regulations have been made in response to legislative changes to child benefit. These amendments clarify that parents who elect not to receive child benefit payments will be treated in the same way as those that continue to receive the payments. The regulations...
- Genetic Medicine (13 June 2013)
Anna Soubry: ...it is very kind of me. It is a good time to hold this debate, as the development of genomic technologies, based on the individual’s genetic data, is a rapidly developing field that will bring benefits for NHS patients and the economy. The UK is a recognised world leader in scientific research in genetics, and the services that are available to NHS patients are among the best, if not...
- Economy: Culture and the Arts — Motion to Take Note (13 June 2013) See 6 other results from this debate
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch: My Lords, I, too, am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Wheatcroft, for securing this debate and to everybody who has contributed. There is enormous art expertise in this House, yet it seems that it is all too rare that we get an opportunity such as this for an in-depth discussion. We have proved our worth with that expertise today. At the outset, I endorse the central proposition that...
- Petitions: Walsall Gala Baths (13 June 2013)
Valerie Vaz: ...to have swimming facilities in the town centre. Especially and in particular, we do not wish to lose the only brine pool that is centrally located, well used and much appreciated for its medical benefits to many of its users. The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to take all possible steps to encourage Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council to...
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 64 - Charge on certain high value disposals by companies etc (13 June 2013)
David Gauke: ...while it was owned, capital gains tax will not be charged either. As I have said, a wide range of exemptions from the annual tax on enveloped dwellings exist for genuine commercial businesses. Companies benefiting from such exemptions will also be exempt from the capital gains tax charge under clause 64 and schedule 24. As under the new annual tax on enveloped dwellings regime, there are,...
- G8 Summit — Motion to Take Note (13 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate
Lord Lexden: ...when he was First Minister, devolved government might never have been eventually restored on a firm basis. It is well known that Northern Ireland faces formidable economic problems, which this House discusses from time to time, as indeed it should, avoiding the grave error made in Westminster after the creation of Northern Ireland in 1920, when the Stormont Parliament was left entirely to...
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 16, 183, 184 and 200 to 212, schedules 3 and 41 and certain new clauses and new schedules) - Clause 91 - Charge to tax (13 June 2013) See 1 other result from this clause
David Gauke: ...capital or full share, it is the intention to charge the partnership on the property irrespective of the capital share of individual corporate partners. It is important to note, however, that most partnerships carry out a genuine business and will benefit from the available reliefs. A question was asked about uprating under CPI. We believe that it is fair that the amount payable is uprated...
- Backbench Business — Iraq War (10th Anniversary) (13 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate
Rory Stewart: ...Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) for securing this debate, and it is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas), who made an extremely moving speech. I was not in the House for the 2003 vote, and I certainly do not want to focus on it today; I am far from sure that I would have made the right decision. In fact, I think I would have been on the wrong side in...
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 91 - Charge to tax (13 June 2013) See 3 other results from this clause
Chris Evans: ...did not think that I would say this, but clauses 91 through 172 are quite interesting. The annual tax on enveloped dwellings strikes at the heart of the problem in this country. Half of the 700,000 houses valued at £2 million are not being occupied, whether or not they are being used as some facility to avoid tax. The clause introduces an important measure. It is not a mansion tax,...
- Business of the House: Royal Bank of Scotland (13 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate
Caroline Lucas: ...agree more, but rather than flog it off, would not a more effective way to achieve that aim be to maintain the bank in the public sector and to direct investment into projects that will genuinely benefit the public and the economy—into small businesses, affordable housing and home insulation—which will also create hundreds of thousands of local jobs?
- Business of the House (13 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate
Andrew Lansley: I thank the shadow Leader of the House for her response. Let me begin by echoing her expression of support for your letter to the Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee, Mr. Speaker—not least because I think that we in the House of Commons want consideration of the relationship between Members’ interests and their responsibilities to proceed on the basis of advice from...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Consumer Protection (13 June 2013)
Graham Jones: In June last year the Government announced a crackdown on cowboy builders. The DCLG website states: “The measures will also ensure that householders have a financial safety net in place… if… self-check installers fail to finish work properly or if they can’t be chased through the courts.” Around 85,000 complaints about cowboy builders are made to the OFT every...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Apprentices (SMEs) (13 June 2013)
Vincent Cable: May I first anticipate the House’s disappointment that I am answering this question, rather than my colleague, the Under-Secretary of State for Skills, my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock)? He is being a role model for our policy of shared parental leave and is currently nursing Humphrey Hancock, who was born a few days ago. My hon. Friend the Member for Castle...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Royal Mail (13 June 2013)
Kris Hopkins: More than 90% of BT’s employees registered to participate in shares when the company was privatised. Does my right hon. Friend agree that everybody in this House, and outside, should encourage as many Royal Mail employees as possible to participate in and benefit from shares from a sale?