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Written Answers — House of Lords: Poverty (22 May 2013)

Lord Freud: ...alone and that is why we need to focus on the root causes The Government are taking action on child poverty and believe that work remains the best way out of poverty. The introduction of universal credit will simplify the benefit system and ensure that work is always the best option. In March we announced additional childcare support of £200 million within universal credit, to be...

Written Answers — Treasury: Social Security Benefits: East Renfrewshire (21 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim Murphy: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in East Renfrewshire constituency were in receipt of (a) child benefit, (b) working families tax credits, (c) incapacity benefit, (d) disability living allowance and (e) income support in May (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Pension Credit (21 May 2013)

Steve Webb: ...covers Great Britain for the financial year 2009-10. It provides caseload and expenditure estimates of take-up for income support and employment and support allowance (income-related), pension credit, housing benefit (including local housing allowance), council tax benefit and jobseeker's allowance (income-based). The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 10 June...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Merseyside (21 May 2013)

Mark Hoban: ...level from 15 July 2013. Also, estimates assume that the situation of these households will go unchanged, and they will not take any steps to either work enough hours to qualify for working tax credit, renegotiate their rent in situ, or find alternative accommodation. The Department is identifying and writing to all the households who are likely to be affected by the cap and we are...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Retirement Pensions (21 May 2013)

Steve Webb: ....6 2054 7.9 7.7 2055 8.0 7.8 2056 8.1 7.8 2057 8.2 7.9 2058 8.3 8.0 2059 8.4 8.1 2060 8.5 8.1 Notes: 1. Pensioner benefit expenditure includes state pension, pension credit, housing benefit, localised council tax support, attendance allowance, disability living allowance, winter fuel payments, over-75 TV licences and Christmas bonus. 2. Expenditure is...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Benefits (21 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Lord Willis of Knaresborough: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether parents of 16 to 18 year-olds on the new traineeships programme will be entitled to claim child benefit and child tax credit in line with parents of those attending full-time non-advanced further education in school sixth forms and further education colleges.

Mesothelioma Bill [HL] — Second Reading (20 May 2013)

Lord Howarth of Newport: ...grudging and obstructive in the past, but it has established the Employers' Liability Tracing Office and is willing to go along with this scheme. It is, however, a scheme that needs improvement. Credit should certainly be given to the previous Government for the preliminary work that they did. The Minister was rightly generous to my noble friend Lord McKenzie, who published the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (IT System) (20 May 2013)

Iain Duncan Smith: Let me remind the right hon. Gentleman of a quote from the Institute for Fiscal Studies about the way we are rolling the system out. It said: “The level of problems caused to tax credit claimants and employers as the new tax credit systems went live in April 2003 demonstrated that there were undetected gaps in the design of the testing regime for the systems.” This system is a...

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

Iain Duncan Smith: Yes. When we came into office, the fraud and error in tax credit loan bills stood at some £11.6 billion—money lost by the previous Government. Since then, we have published a new fraud legislative strategy, refreshed in February last year, and we are convicting and punishing more people. There were almost 10,000 convictions for benefit fraud in 2011-12, up more than 40% on 2009-10.

Written Answers — Treasury: Poverty: Children (20 May 2013)

Sajid Javid: The Institute for Fiscal Studies' projections are based on a narrow measure of child poverty. The focus on this measure has resulted in policies that use benefits and tax credits to change income at the margin; it does not capture the full impact of government spending on low to middle income households, including the value of education and health services which have a real positive impact on...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Fraud (20 May 2013)

Mark Hoban: At a cost of £5.8 billion a year, benefit and tax credit fraud and error is still too high. This is why we are piloting a Single Fraud Investigation Service to bring together the expertise of fraud agencies across Government. We have introduced tougher punishments for benefit fraud, including a minimum penalty of £350, and loss of benefit for up to three years for those convicted by...

Economy: Growth — Motion to Take Note (16 May 2013)

Baroness Kramer: ...where it offered no resilience. I can understand how the Labour Government got there. They bought into the idea that boom and bust had ended and that there would be a constant flow of substantial tax receipts coming from the financial services industry and that they therefore could let loose the leash on both spending and borrowing because there would be a constant flow of money coming...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (5th Day) (15 May 2013)

Lord Northbrook: ...the able leadership of my noble friend Lord Wei. Every aspect of our visit was excellently planned, from the detailed FCO briefing before we left to the full programme while we were there. Further credit is due to the Hong Kong Government and the consul-general there, Caroline Wilson, for their superb organisation and interest in hearing our feedback. The British Chamber of Commerce...

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

Danny Alexander: ...their first member of staff or expand their work force. We estimate that the £2,000 allowance in the Bill in question will benefit 1.25 million businesses, most of them small businesses. Our new tax-free arrangements on child care will reduce the cost of employment for employees, putting money back into the pockets of hard-working families and ensuring that it makes financial sense...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Living Standards (15 May 2013)

Susan Elan Jones: Some 400,000 individuals across Wales will face real-terms cuts in tax credits and benefits at a time when 13,000 millionaires across the UK will get a tax cut. Does the Secretary of State think this is right—yes or no?

Written Answers — Treasury: Advance Corporation Tax (15 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Eilidh Whiteford: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate his Department has made of the contribution of the abolition of advanced corporation tax to the reduction in the value of pension funds; (2) how much has been raised by the withdrawal of advance corporation tax credit on pensions.