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Welfare Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

457 c1287-8 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Point of Order
Monday, 5 March 2007
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to re-fight the last general election, and we are certain...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1288-90 (Link to this contribution) May I deal first with the hon. Gentleman’s point about the nature of today’s announcement? Back in D...

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Kali Mountford | 457 c1293 (Link to this contribution) May I take up the flexibility theme? The longer people are away from the labour market, the more dif...

Gordon Prentice | 457 c1294 (Link to this contribution) How many civil servants at Jobcentre Plus are likely to be affected by the proposals, and will they ...

David Laws | 457 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement o...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) In December, I commissioned David Freud to conduct a review of progress on welfare reform to analyse...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1293 (Link to this contribution) We will make a further announcement later this year. Freud has recognised that benefit simplificatio...

Joan Humble | 457 c1293-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the acknowledgement of David Freud—and of my right hon. Friend today—of the importance of ...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 457 c1292 (Link to this contribution) Given that the number of jobs has increased by 2.5 million since 1997, does the Secretary of State a...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1294-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform has already made it clear that that is...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1294 (Link to this contribution) There are no specific proposals yet, but the Freud report clearly suggests that, going forward, ther...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. If we are to achieve everything to which we aspire, a cross-Go...

Terry Rooney | 457 c1290 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will recognise much of what David Freud has put in his report from the excellen...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1292-3 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly do that. David Freud clearly stated that we should provide a more flexible, indivi...

Peter Bone | 457 c1294 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that the report was published today, that the debate would start today a...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1291-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for much of what he has said, although I think he is wrong to su...

Julie Kirkbride | 457 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the Freud report. How soon does the Secretary of State think he will be able to retu...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 457 c1291-2 (Link to this contribution) We welcome many of the report’s recommendations, and join the Secretary of State in thanking David F...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1293-4 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly pay particular attention to those problems, and I appreciate the work that my hon....

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1292 (Link to this contribution) I do not think we should lose sight of what the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developme...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1290 (Link to this contribution) I certainly acknowledge my hon. Friend’s first point: the Select Committee recently produced an exce...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1294 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that the debate has been going on for a considerable time. I tabled a wr...

David Laws | 457 c1288-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. However, given the importance of the report, I am ...

Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c1295 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is a very important issue. In terms of pensioner poverty, there is a clear link between co...

Vincent Cable | 457 c1292-3 (Link to this contribution) In view of the report’s welcome emphasis on flexibility in job search, will the Secretary of State c...

Clive Betts | 457 c1295 (Link to this contribution) May I raise with my right hon. Friend an issue at the interface between the Freud report and the Lyo...

Jeremy Hunt | 457 c1294-5 (Link to this contribution) The Freud report talked about simplifying the massive complexity of the benefit system. Does the Sec...

Lord Howard of Lympne | 457 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) I, too, hope that the Secretary of State will implement the proposals in the Freud report, but why d...

Subjects

Contracts for services Jobseeker's allowance Jobcentres Private sector Jobcentre Plus Incapacity benefit Lone parents Social security benefits Long term unemployed people Public private partnerships Social security Training Unemployed people Welfare to work Welfare to Work Review

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