Estimates day on Wednesday, 5 December 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Terry Rooney. The answering member was Caroline Flint.

Benefits Simplification

Winter supplementary estimates 2007-08. First estimates day (part two). Motion that, for the year ending with 31st March 2008, for expenditure by the Department for Work and Pensions— (1) further resources, not exceeding £627,101,000, be authorised for use as set out in House of Commons Paper No. 29, (2) a further sum, not exceeding £1,147,101,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund, to meet the costs as so set out, and (3) limits as so set out be set on appropriations in aid. Question deferred. Resolved.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 468 c896-931
Session: 2007-08
Department: Department for Work and Pensions
Procedure: Supply estimates
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Related items: Local government finance - council tax benefit. Communities and Local Government Select Committee eighth report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 718-i not printed separately) and appendices.
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Wednesday, 5 December 2007
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House of Commons papers
House of Commons; Local government finance - council tax benefit. Communities and Local Government Select Committee first special report - government response to the Committee's eighth report of session 2006-07 (HC 718).
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
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House of Commons; Benefits simplification. Work and Pensions Select Committee seventh report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 463 i-v not printed separately) and appendices.
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons; Benefits Simplification. Work and Pensions Select Committee third special report - government response to the Committees seventh report of session 2006-07 (HC 463).
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Terry Rooney | 468 c924 (Link to this contribution) For purposes of clarity and honesty, what we have had from the hon. Gentleman is a statement, but wi...; Danny Alexander | 468 c924 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Anne Begg | 468 c912 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has done a lot of work with the organisation Every Disabled Child Matters, whose evid...; Lord Harper | 468 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed an aspiration. I am pleased to be accompanied on the Front Bench by my hon. Friend the ...; Rob Marris | 468 c902 (Link to this contribution) I would.; Terry Rooney | 468 c902-3 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Over the years, failure or inadequacy of performance in IT systems have caused horrendous he...; Terry Rooney | 468 c901 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the comments of my hon. Friend from the Select Committee. He makes a useful and telling co...; Danny Alexander | 468 c904 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chairman of the Select Committee first on an extremely useful, clear and well tho...; Danny Alexander | 468 c905-7 (Link to this contribution) Such trips are beyond the purview of the Scottish Affairs Committee, on which I serve, but it seems ...; Danny Alexander | 468 c904-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. I shall be identifying some areas, many of which th...; Terry Rooney | 468 c905 (Link to this contribution) Briefly.; Terry Rooney | 468 c896-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform to the debate. I was expecti...; Phyllis Starkey | 468 c899 (Link to this contribution) One example of a policy objective not being carried out relates to a benefit that my hon. Friend has...; Terry Rooney | 468 c899 (Link to this contribution) I would hate to venture on to the territory of trying to make council tax fair, but my hon. Friend i...; Joan Humble | 468 c899 (Link to this contribution) With regard to housing benefit, my hon. Friend will also be aware of the chaos caused by the introdu...; Terry Rooney | 468 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is not my place to defend the verification process, but I sha...; Terry Rooney | 468 c900 (Link to this contribution) I am not an expert, but I do lead a sad life. That cannot be good or right. Social Security Advisor...; Mark Pritchard | 468 c901 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is the distinguished Chairman of our Select Committee, for ...; John Penrose | 468 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I shall come to the problems of unintentional error by...; Danny Alexander | 468 c917 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an important point. Is he aware that, taking unclaimed tax credits and u...; John Penrose | 468 c913-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the Chairman of the Select Committee on Work and Pensions, and my fellow ...; Bill Wiggin | 468 c915 (Link to this contribution) In his correspondence with the Government on the subject, has my hon. Friend noticed that clients, a...; Joan Humble | 468 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, who has anticipated what I am going to say next. The evidence ...; Harry Cohen | 468 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, will try to be brief because I support the comments of my colleagues on the Work and Pension...; Chris Ruane | 468 c920 (Link to this contribution) I hope we are back here in five years.; Anne Begg | 468 c920 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I, too, hope that we are back in five years, but talking about the commission, not still discus...; John Penrose | 468 c917-9 (Link to this contribution) There are numerous different estimates of the size of the problem, but I completely agree that there...; Anne Begg | 468 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) I intend to speak for only a few moments because I do not want to repeat all of the points already m...; Rob Marris | 468 c907 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Does he agree that paragraph 15 of the Government's respon...; Danny Alexander | 468 c908 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. The hon. Gentleman rightly points out that these calls are more expensive ev...; Rob Marris | 468 c908 (Link to this contribution) Or 03 numbers.; Danny Alexander | 468 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) Or 03 numbers, as the hon. Gentleman says. It is a consequence of a point that I made earlier that t...; Joan Humble | 468 c910-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure for me, as a member of the Work and Pensions Committee, to contribute to this...; Anne Begg | 468 c909 (Link to this contribution) On pensions policy, I know that the Liberals want a universal citizen's pension. Would they also lik...; Danny Alexander | 468 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) The contributory principle is important, and it was addressed in the report, which makes it clear th...; Rob Marris | 468 c910 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the next logical step might be to have a guaranteed minimum annua...; Danny Alexander | 468 c910 (Link to this contribution) That is not my party's policy, but I noted with interest what the Committee proposed in its report. ...; Caroline Flint | 468 c926-31 (Link to this contribution) This has been an informative debate, and I congratulate hon. Friends and other Members on their cons...; Terry Rooney | 468 c925 (Link to this contribution) That is just an aspiration.; Lord Harper | 468 c925 (Link to this contribution) It is very clear that we can save money by moving more people back into work—an objective that the G...; Lord Harper | 468 c922-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Bradford, North (Mr. Rooney) on securing this debate and on chair...; Danny Alexander | 468 c924 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman list what the reforms are? He referred to the right hon. Member for Chingfor...; Lord Harper | 468 c924 (Link to this contribution) Briefly.; Lord Harper | 468 c924 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chairman of the Select Committee for the opportunity to say what I was just coming on to...; Rob Marris | 468 c904 (Link to this contribution) I quite understand the need to put the claimant at the centre, but it is clear from the hon. Gentlem...; Rob Marris | 468 c900 (Link to this contribution) Are you an expert?
Subjects: Benefits rules Social security benefits Work and Pensions Committee Communities and Local Government Committee
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