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Benefit Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

502 c818-33 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Yvette Cooper | 502 c818-20 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I shall make a statement on the Employment White Paper and the consultation documen...

Anne Begg | 502 c828 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the three month run-on for housing benefit, because it is important in letting peopl...

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Ronnie Campbell | 502 c829 (Link to this contribution) I agree that tenants should have the choice on housing benefit, but what worries me is the young peo...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c829 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the impact on young people. He asked how private s...

Tony Baldry | 502 c828 (Link to this contribution) One of the aspects of this recession is that employers have learned to retain older, skilled workers...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c828 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I know that she and others on the Select Committee have...

Malcolm Wicks | 502 c830 (Link to this contribution) Given that we reformed housing benefit for private tenants with the introduction of housing allowanc...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, the minimum wage is established by the Low Pay Commission, which co...

John Mason | 502 c829 (Link to this contribution) The £40 in-work guarantee sounds very positive, but does that not still leave an issue with the marg...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c829 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that it is that small minority of people who can be most vulnerable and who ...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c830 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is exactly right. The issue is extremely important, which is why we are consult...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c822-4 (Link to this contribution) The kind response to that would be to suggest that the right hon. Lady does not understand her own p...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 502 c820-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for an advance copy of her statement. At a time when nearly 2.5 mill...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c824 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. She has talked to me, and also to my right hon. Friend the Minister f...

Hazel Blears | 502 c824 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's statement will be warmly welcomed in Salford, where we are only too well awar...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c825-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments, and I shall try to respond to each of his questions. I ...

Steve Webb | 502 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for providing me with a copy of her statement. It is a bit o...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c827 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the local employment partnerships are filling more than 30,000 jobs a month. I cannot...

Terry Rooney | 502 c827 (Link to this contribution) When my right hon. Friend is judging people by what they do and not what they say, will she recall w...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is asking for the number of unsubsidised jobs there will be, and one of the...

Lord Redwood | 502 c827 (Link to this contribution) As someone who welcomes anything that can tackle the big problem of unemployment, may I ask the Secr...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c833 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the importance of child care. We have already done a lot to increase the free child ca...

Anne McGuire | 502 c832 (Link to this contribution) When my right hon. Friend is reflecting on actions, I trust that she will remember the massive incre...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c832 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point, and she is right too about the number of lone parents...

Russell Brown | 502 c832 (Link to this contribution) The future jobs fund has already delivered 144 jobs in my area, so I thank my right hon. Friend for ...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c832 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. This is not just about rewriting history, as we well remember what happened...

Andrew Miller | 502 c831 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that Lord McKenzie of Luton came to my constituency to look at the fa...

Gregory Campbell | 502 c831 (Link to this contribution) Tens of thousands of people have been made redundant in the past three years, many of them having be...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c831-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that we need to support job growth, for which SMEs may be crucial over t...

Philip Hollobone | 502 c830 (Link to this contribution) The overall level of unemployment has not risen as much as the Government expected, which is a good ...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that is accurate. The Budget forecasts earlier this year reflected independent f...

Joan Humble | 502 c832 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the announcement today of additional support for young people, carers and parent...

Yvette Cooper | 502 c831 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to look into the points that my hon. Friend makes about having that flexibility for the c...

Subjects

Apprentices Housing benefit Employment Jobseeker's allowance Housing Employment schemes Jobcentre Plus Economic situation Social security benefits Training Young people Unemployment benefits Unemployment Economic recession Connexions Service Better off in work credit Skills accounts

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