Monday, 8 November 2021
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps she is taking to ensure that the household support fund helps the most vulnerable during winter 2021-22.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle delays in payment of the state pension.
What steps she is taking to support families affected by the end of the uplift to the standard allowance of universal credit.
What support her Department is providing to universal credit claimants who are unable to secure employment.
What assessment she has made of the resilience of the universal credit system during the covid-19 outbreak.
What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that disabled people are supported in work.
What support her Department is providing to young jobseekers.
What assessment she has made of the potential effect of ending the universal credit uplift on household budgets.
What assessment she has made of the potential effect of ending the universal credit uplift on the risk of poverty among benefit claimants.
How many people (a) receive the state pension and (b) claim pension credit in Kettering constituency.
What assessment she has made of the (a) utility and (b) value of universal credit compared to predecessor schemes.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle levels of poverty among pensioners.
What steps her Department is taking to help support benefit claimants with increased costs of living.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
Before we come to the statement, I remind the House that as sentencing has not yet occurred, the case to which the statement relates remains sub judice under the terms of the House resolution....
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Emergency debate ( Standing Order No. 24)
Consideration of Lords message
I beg to move, That this House insists on its amendments 31A and 31B and disagrees with Lords amendment 31C.
Resolved, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 33B and proposes amendments (a) and (b) in lieu.—(Rebecca Pow.)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 45B and proposes amendments (a) and (b) in lieu.—(Rebecca Pow.)
Resolved, That this House insists on its amendments 75A and 75B and disagrees with Lords amendment 75C.—(Rebecca Pow.) Lords amendments 85D and 85E agreed to. Motion made, and Question put...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Telecommunications (Security) Bill for the purpose of supplementing the...
Consideration of Lords amendments
I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 4.
For the convenience of the House, motions 6 and 7 on road traffic will be debated together.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021, which were laid before this House on 9 September, be approved.—(Craig Whittaker.) Question agreed to.
I rise to present a petition on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken). The petition states: That the petition of residents of the constituency...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Craig Whittaker.)
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