Monday, 17 March 2025
The Secretary of State was asked—
What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of disability living allowance cases that have been incorrectly reduced to a lower rate...
What steps she is taking to support young people into employment, education or training in the Portsmouth North constituency.
What assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of removing the two-child benefit cap.
Whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on employment rates.
What steps she plans to take to ensure that disabled people are adequately financially supported in her planned reforms to benefit entitlements.
What assessment she has made of the adequacy of incentives to seek employment.
What steps her Department is taking to help increase uptake of pension credit.
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of jobcentres on economic growth.
What assessment she has made of recent trends in levels of unemployment.
What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle fraud in the welfare system by serious and organised criminal gangs.
What assessment she has made of the impact of the pensions triple-lock on pensioners in North Durham constituency.
What steps her Department is taking to help reduce levels of unemployment in Stoke-on-Trent.
What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the welfare system in supporting disabled people into work.
What steps her Department is taking to support care leavers into employment.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if she will make a statement on the Sentencing Council’s publication of community and custodial sentences guidelines.
With permission, I shall make a statement about last week’s meeting of G7 Foreign Ministers. We met at a pivotal moment. Some Members of this House may have doubted that we could find...
Ordered, That the Order of 8 January 2025 (Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Programme) be varied as follows: (1) Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order shall be omitted. (2) Proceedings on...
Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Committee and the Public Bill Committee
“(1) It is the duty of every relevant authority when exercising its functions— (a) to be alert to matters which adversely affect, or might adversely affect, the wellbeing of...
“(1) The duty under section (Corporate parenting responsibilities)(1) does not apply in relation to the exercise of— (a) any function of the Secretary of State in relation to...
“(1) Relevant authorities and local authorities in England must, so far as reasonably practicable, collaborate with each other when performing their corporate parenting duty where they...
“(1) A relevant authority must have regard to any guidance given by the Secretary of State as to the performance of the duty under section (Corporate parenting responsibilities)(1). (2)...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, after the end of each relevant three-year period, lay before Parliament a report on how the Secretary of State has performed the duty under section...
“(1) Within 12 months of the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State must, for the purposes of promoting the wellbeing of children— (a) direct the Chief Medical Officers of the...
Amendments made: 111, page 6, line 21, leave out from “facilitate” to end of line 22 and insert— “(a) where the recipient is within subsection (4)(a) or (b), the exercise...
Amendment made: 117, in clause 11, page 16, line 7, after “England” insert “or Wales”.—(Stephen Morgan.) This amendment ensures that the clause 11 amendments to...
Amendment proposed: 188, page 17, delete from line 21 to line 17 on page 21 and insert— “23A Requirement for inspection (1) The CIECSS may order an inspection of a parent undertaking,...
Amendment made: 118, page 23, line 3, at end insert— “(2) None of the provisions in or made by virtue of this section are to be read as requiring or authorising the processing of...
Power to limit profits of relevant providers Amendment proposed: 171, page 29, line 18, at end insert— “(c) independent schools with caring responsibilities and offering SEND...
Amendments made: 119, in clause 18, page 34, line 37, at end insert— ‘(4A) The Secretary of State may provide financial oversight information to the Care Quality Commission for use in...
Amendments made: 123, in clause 20, page 36, line 29, leave out “in England”. This amendment and amendments 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130 and 131 ensure that the clause 20...
1 The Secretary of State. 2 The Lord Chancellor. 3 (1) The governing body of a maintained school in England. (2) In sub-paragraph (1), “maintained school” has the meaning given by...
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument amend Part 1 of this Schedule by— (a) adding a person or description of persons, (b) removing an entry listed in...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Civil Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 2025, which was laid before this House on 6 February, be approved.—(Anna Turley.)
Ordered, That Josh MacAlister be discharged from the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee and Melanie Onn be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Ordered, That Deirdre Costigan be discharged from the Health and Social Care Committee and Alex McIntyre be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Ordered, That Mr Alex Barros-Curtis be discharged from the Justice Committee and Matt Bishop be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Ordered, That Ben Obese-Jecty be discharged from the Work and Pensions Committee and Danny Kruger be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Anna Turley.)
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