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Benefits Uprating

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

468 c841-51 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Nigel Waterson | 468 c843-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his usual courtesy in letting me have a copy of his statement in advance. ...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c845-7 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to read what the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Waterson) said last year and comp...

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Mike O'Brien | 468 c841-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make the annual social security uprating statement and a bro...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 468 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) Fuel poverty is the big issue for pensioners. In Stornoway, diesel costs £1.19 a litre. How does the...

Robert Smith | 468 c851 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has rightly recognised that failure to take up pension credit means that some of the po...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c851 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly talks of his island communities, but rural communities throughout the Uni...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c851 (Link to this contribution) It will not all have been done in a year's time. A year from now the system will have been in place ...

Speaker | 468 c847 (Link to this contribution) Order. Some hon. Members still wish to question the Minister, so perhaps he could draw his remarks t...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked about the earnings link, and we have already legislated to ensure that it w...

Speaker | 468 c848 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are far too many individual conversations going on in the Chamber, which is making it v...

Danny Alexander | 468 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for advance notice of his statement. The uprating announced today will...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) This year the retail prices index is above earnings levels, and we have therefore increased the pens...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c849 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that my hon. Friend sounds a bit like my mum. My mum has just turned 80, and she said ...

Derek Conway | 468 c850 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's statement has been rightly welcomed in all parts of the House, but may I press him on...

Brian Jenkins | 468 c849 (Link to this contribution) We all welcome upratings, but does my good friend the Minister intend to write to all the people in ...

Mike O'Brien | 468 c850 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is important. I hesitate to tell local authorities what to do, because they always object ...

Philip Hollobone | 468 c849 (Link to this contribution) What is the official estimate of the rate of inflation as it applies to pensioners, and how does it ...

Subjects

Council tax benefits Children Housing benefit Jobseeker's allowance Income support Pension credit Pensioners Workplace pensions Pension rights Overseas residence Social security benefits State retirement pensions Young people Telephone services Uprating Pension Service

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Yes

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