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Ministerial statement on Monday, 21 July 2008, in the House of Commons, led by James Purnell.

Welfare Reform

Statement on the government's green paper "No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility" (Cm 7363).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
479 c529-46 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 479 c532 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but the House should give him a hearing, just as ...
Kali Mountford | 479 c537 (Link to this contribution) In congratulating my right hon. Friend on his statement, may I say that it is part of an evolving pr...
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Bob Spink | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) I broadly welcome this move, which in many ways follows UKIP's welfare to work policy, as it does Li...
James Purnell | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can absolutely give my hon. Friend that reassurance. The proposals are based on what has happ...
Karen Buck | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) As a general principle, it is hard to overstate the importance of fathers' involvement in the lives ...
James Purnell | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) No, we will spend £20 million on those programmes. It will be a national pilot. We want to work out ...
Kerry McCarthy | 479 c545 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the proposals in the Green Paper to require people to seek drug treatment if the...
James Purnell | 479 c545 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely right that the proposals should be subject to review and that they should be carrie...
James Purnell | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Those are vital steps to take to increase the employment rate am...
Robert Goodwill | 479 c544 (Link to this contribution) As somebody who likes to think that he is on the right wing of the Conservative party, I am thrilled...
James Purnell | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) That will be up to our providers. That is an example of what I was saying about our not telling our ...
Chris Bryant | 479 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) Ever since the pits closed across south Wales, far too many of my constituents have been consigned t...
James Purnell | 479 c542 (Link to this contribution) No, because that would be very much the old agenda of trying to privatise things and this is exactly...
Gordon Prentice | 479 c542 (Link to this contribution) My friend told us in his statement that Jobcentre Plus is recognised as one of the best back-to-work...
James Purnell | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will not offend the hon. Gentleman too much if I say that I have not read that partic...
Greg Clark | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been studying our green papers closely and I commend that, but he will kn...
James Purnell | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is a good point and it is exactly what we are doing as part of our local employment partne...
Baroness Keeley | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Lone parents and carers would also benefit from the avai...
Anne Main | 479 c543 (Link to this contribution) Will there be any restriction, limitation or guidance on the range of occupations that may be expect...
James Purnell | 479 c542 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that the public sector needs to play its part and that we need to use...
Pete Wishart | 479 c542 (Link to this contribution) There is a story in The Herald today suggesting that Glasgow is to be a pilot for all these proposal...
James Purnell | 479 c542 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what to say to that. Unfortunately, if we had done the opposite and not included Scotl...
James Purnell | 479 c546 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we do not use the potential of everybody in the work force, i...
Dari Taylor | 479 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the statement. I represent some blind and partially sighted people and the major ob...
James Purnell | 479 c545 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly why we want a new test for the employment and support allowance. We think that the p...
Peter Bone | 479 c545 (Link to this contribution) I understand the Government and the Secretary of State's desire to move people off incapacity benefi...
James Purnell | 479 c545 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, we have the progress2work programme, which helps people with drug addiction...
Geraldine Smith | 479 c546 (Link to this contribution) It is right that when people can work, they do. No one would disagree with that, but what about peop...
James Purnell | 479 c546 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. All sectors must play their part. The doubling of the Access to Work budge...
David Leslie Taylor | 479 c546 (Link to this contribution) Success has many parents and failure is an orphan, so it is no wonder there has been such widespread...
James Purnell | 479 c546 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, it would be wrong for me to comment on that issue. We want to use good providers and to c...
Michael Jabez Foster | 479 c541 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has thought perhaps not the unthinkable, but the now thinkable because of the s...
James Purnell | 479 c541 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important point. I am afraid that I have not yet seen her question. She refer...
Baroness Browning | 479 c541 (Link to this contribution) Last week, I tabled a written question asking the right hon. Gentleman to place before the House the...
Joan Humble | 479 c540 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's statement, which will support people into work and out of poverty. Will my right h...
John Butterfill | 479 c540 (Link to this contribution) May I bring to the Secretary of State's attention the predicament of a uniquely disadvantaged group ...
James Purnell | 479 c540 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about the importance of Access to Work. These proposals will give employers ...
Tom Levitt | 479 c540 (Link to this contribution) I particularly welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to doubling the Access to Work budget, not ...
James Purnell | 479 c541 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important point, and the Select Committee on which my hon. Friend serves has repeated...
James Purnell | 479 c540 (Link to this contribution) This Green Paper does not cover disability living allowance, so there are no proposals on that issue...
Lord Lilley | 479 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will not be surprised that I welcome him announcing policies that I originall...
James Purnell | 479 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) I echo those congratulations, and also congratulate my right hon. Friend on the work that he has don...
Lord Young of Cookham | 479 c539 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, the Secretary of State said that he wanted to give disabled people the right to kn...
James Purnell | 479 c539 (Link to this contribution) We want to include as many funding sources as possible, and there is wide support for that across go...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 479 c539 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend will know, numerous people in constituencies such as mine began receiving in...
James Purnell | 479 c539 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I can give her precisely that reassurance. That is why...
Jacqui Lait | 479 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that the best providers in the field of back-to-work support say th...
James Purnell | 479 c538 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do so. I confirm, as I said in my statement, that we will pay people by results. We ar...
Lord Blunkett | 479 c538 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend and his ministerial team on today's announcement of measures bui...
Lord Grayling | 479 c531-4 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement, although after last...
James Purnell | 479 c529-31 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the Government's Green Paper, ““N...
James Purnell | 479 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's support, of course. When parties agree on proposals, they should not ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 479 c534 (Link to this contribution) Given that the social security system compensates people with disabilities through the disability li...
Jenny Willott | 479 c535-6 (Link to this contribution) It is good to have the opportunity to talk about welfare reform. I think that all my predecessor Lib...
James Purnell | 479 c534 (Link to this contribution) We continue to be interested in the proposals around a single benefit system. Indeed, we are taking ...
James Purnell | 479 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Lady's backing for our support measures, the new funding mechanism and the simpli...
James Purnell | 479 c537 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to suggest that we should never stigmatise people in poverty and ...
Subjects
Disability Children Benefits rules Jobseeker's allowance Income support Drugs Rehabilitation Employment schemes Incapacity benefit Medical examinations Maintenance Parents Reform Pathways to work programme Social security benefits Social security Access to work programme Employment and support allowance
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