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Benefits Uprating

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

485 c693-702 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Tony McNulty | 485 c693-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement on benefits uprating, particularly i...

Nigel Waterson | 485 c695-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Minister for his usual courtesy in letting me have sight of his statement in...

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Tony McNulty | 485 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) I will ignore the politicking in the hon. Gentleman's comments, as I usually do—not least his last t...

Paul Rowen | 485 c698 (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank the Minister for sight of his statement. There are more than 500 people currently empl...

Tony McNulty | 485 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) On Woolworths, let me be clear that we have a rapid support service located in every region and dist...

Ann Cryer | 485 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I ought to declare an interest, in that I am a pensioner. On behalf of my many constituents...

Tony McNulty | 485 c700 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for not blaming me for the weather. I am grateful, too, that she wel...

Lord Lilley | 485 c700 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister knows, I fully support in principle the welfare reforms that his right hon. Friend t...

Tony McNulty | 485 c701 (Link to this contribution) I believe that an informal consultation paper reviewing the operation of the social fund was publish...

Peter Bone | 485 c701 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's statement. Unfortunately, there have been a series of redundancies in my co...

Tony McNulty | 485 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman has been consistent in his support for welfare reform, albeit, ...

Hywel Williams | 485 c701 (Link to this contribution) We are indeed experiencing difficult times when even the greatest financial institutions in the land...

Tony McNulty | 485 c702 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I failed to deal with that question when it was first asked. The change is part of a...

Tony McNulty | 485 c701-2 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I do not know the details of the case, or cases, raised by the hon. Gentleman, but I can s...

Christopher Fraser | 485 c702 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister answer the specific question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr....

Subjects

Economic situation Incapacity benefit Pensioners Social security benefits State retirement pensions Tax allowances Uprating Winter fuel payment Retail prices index

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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