Proceeding contribution from James Clappison (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 February 2008. It occurred during Legislative debate on Social Security.
Social Security
I was trying to set the scene for the details, and I shall come to those now. There is a provision for uprating incapacity benefits, so the salient answer to point made by the hon. Member for South Swindon is that it is likely, given the Government's wretched record in getting people off long-term incapacity benefit, that many of the people she describes are still on that benefit. That is notwithstanding the fact that, overall—
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- Proceeding contribution
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- 472 c597
- Session
- 2007-08
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- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Council tax benefits Children Fraud Income support Increases Fuel poverty Guaranteed minimum pensions Incapacity benefit Pension credit Pensioners Workplace pensions Poverty Pensions National insurance contributions Lone parents Social security benefits Welfare tax credits Take-up Uprating Social tariffs
- Legislation
- Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2008
- Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2008
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