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Welfare Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

485 c537-57 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Raising expectations and increasing support: reforming welfare for the future.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Command papers
House of Commons
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

John Mason | 485 c550 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of his statement. We all support the idea that as ...

James Purnell | 485 c547 (Link to this contribution) Our proposals will ensure that there are clear expectations of people, and if people repeatedly fail...

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Mark Durkan | 485 c547 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Some of us, however, are unsure of some of his pro...

Iain Duncan Smith | 485 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming the statement. As the Secretary of State knows, a year ago, the Centre for Soci...

Speaker | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is the hon. Gentleman's third supplementary.

Speaker | 485 c550 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is a new Member, but can I gently point out that he should ask one supplem...

Clive Efford | 485 c555 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian (Mr. Hamilton), will Secr...

James Purnell | 485 c555 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. Indeed, it was the present Secretary of State for Scotland...

Ian Davidson | 485 c556 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State not being too soft in his approach to the dependency culture, particularly...

James Purnell | 485 c555-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that one of the big challenges here is to give advisers the flexibili...

James Purnell | 485 c554 (Link to this contribution) One of the key elements in the new employment and support allowance for the group that the hon. Gent...

John McDonnell | 485 c554 (Link to this contribution) We have 2 million unemployed, we are facing the longest and deepest recession in our lifetime, the G...

James Purnell | 485 c554 (Link to this contribution) This measure is about reducing child poverty. We think that our reforms to lone parent benefits will...

Lynne Jones | 485 c554 (Link to this contribution) Many of the measures in my right hon. Friend's statement are welcome, but what consideration is bein...

David Hamilton | 485 c555 (Link to this contribution) Many decisions are taken in this House based on laudable principles, but the interpretation of the d...

Mike Penning | 485 c554 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the Secretary of State's reply to the point that the right hon. Member for N...

James Purnell | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) Yes it will. My hon. Friend made representations to me about her view that we should not go ahead wi...

Betty Williams | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) Will special consideration be given to the parents of children aged between six and 12 who have seve...

James Purnell | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) Within the regime for lone parents, they can choose part-time work after their child is seven if the...

Sandra Gidley | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point made by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smit...

James Purnell | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. That is one of the reasons why we are bringing forward the extra funding. However, ...

Tony Lloyd | 485 c553 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that my constituency still has relatively high levels of structural unemp...

James Purnell | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I can reassure the hon. Lady that sanctions are not enforced by private or voluntary pro...

Anne Main | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) I noted with the interest the Secretary of State's statement that the sanction for those not meeting...

James Purnell | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important point. Ensuring that the skills support we offer people is appropriate to t...

James Purnell | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) The problem now is that people can receive JSA or ESA, but have no obligation to address their drugs...

James Plaskitt | 485 c552 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and I am sure that all of us who want to make our long-te...

Anne McGuire | 485 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and ask him to recognise that some of the fears that indi...

Julie Kirkbride | 485 c551 (Link to this contribution) Following the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lille...

James Purnell | 485 c551 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I thank her for her help in developing the Green Paper and...

Jeremy Corbyn | 485 c551 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State considered the problem of the high level of private sector rents, particu...

James Purnell | 485 c551 (Link to this contribution) I can indeed give the hon. Lady that reassurance, because there are no child maintenance payments wh...

John Penrose | 485 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State provide a little more detail to that part of his statement when he said ...

James Purnell | 485 c551 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend identifies a problem that our housing benefit review intends to look into. The proble...

James Purnell | 485 c550 (Link to this contribution) This is not about penalising the most vulnerable; it is about helping them and ensuring that they ha...

James Purnell | 485 c550 (Link to this contribution) I do not know if we can go as far as self-certification, but I know that my hon. Friend has met mini...

Iain Duncan Smith | 485 c549 (Link to this contribution) Couples?

David Clelland | 485 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I have a constituent who, after working all his life, was diagnosed with a serious, life-threatening...

James Purnell | 485 c549 (Link to this contribution) It will not cover things such as accident and emergency care, because that would not be the right ap...

Lord Young of Cookham | 485 c549 (Link to this contribution) At the end of the Secretary of State's statement, he said that he would legislate to give disabled p...

David Simpson | 485 c547 (Link to this contribution) I broadly welcome the reforms that the Secretary of State has introduced, but with some concerns. I ...

Joan Humble | 485 c546 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that there has been a huge increase in the number of child care p...

James Purnell | 485 c546 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and she gives me the opportunity to make clear that this is...

James Purnell | 485 c546 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the right hon. Gentleman says. Just to clarify, we are not rejecting a proposal that ...

Lord Hain | 485 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I represent a coalfield community where, under the Conservatives' failed policies, thousands of peop...

Lord Lilley | 485 c548 (Link to this contribution) It is for you to decide, Mr. Speaker, whether the Secretary of State's claim that he did not brief t...

James Purnell | 485 c548 (Link to this contribution) The problem that we inherited from the right hon. Gentleman—he was one of my predecessors—is that th...

James Purnell | 485 c547 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Leader of the Opposition said that we had too much conditionality with regard to th...

James Purnell | 485 c537-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on our White Paper ““Raising expecta...

Lord Grayling | 485 c539-41 (Link to this contribution) I would normally thank the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement, but instead of d...

James Purnell | 485 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that at last the hon. Gentleman has acknowledged that it was this Labour Government who co...

Lord Blunkett | 485 c542 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Secretary of State for the White Paper, particularly the move to greater flexibility f...

James Purnell | 485 c545 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, and I want to pay tribute to him for all the work that he does...

James Purnell | 485 c542 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pay tribute to him for starting off the process of welfa...

James Purnell | 485 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) I did not hold a press briefing, and I hope that the hon. Lady will withdraw that comment. The hon....

Roger Berry | 485 c545 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his continuing efforts to support more disabled people and others g...

James Purnell | 485 c555 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly why we are saying that the JSA regime should not be taken down to parents in that ca...

James Purnell | 485 c549 (Link to this contribution) On the first three assurances that my right hon. Friend asks for, I can say yes, yes and yes. On the...

Jenny Willott | 485 c542-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of the statement. I agree with the hon. Member for...

James Purnell | 485 c556 (Link to this contribution) I know that I shall need the help of the Opposition in the coming rebellion over how we are not bein...

James Purnell | 485 c556 (Link to this contribution) I am relatively confident that the answer to that question is yes, but if it is not, I will write to...

Kerry McCarthy | 485 c556 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the clarification from the Secretary of State that the Gregg review's proposals ...

James Purnell | 485 c557 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. One of the biggest challenges will be to ensure that our advisers are up to the challeng...

Rob Marris | 485 c557 (Link to this contribution) Under the last Conservative Government, those who were unemployed got almost no help. They were eith...

Subjects

Disability Children Benefits rules Employment Drugs Private sector Employment schemes Incapacity benefit Maintenance Misuse Lone parents Social security benefits Social security Voluntary organisations Registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships Personalised Conditionality and Support Review Access to work programme Employment and support allowance Welfare to Work Review

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