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Benefits Uprating

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

537 c163-72 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Steve Webb | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is absolutely committed to making work pay through a com...

Philip Davies | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point made by the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field), how on earth can the M...

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John McDonnell | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) Many of my constituents may well have welcomed the increase, but they cannot because they are no lon...

Steve Webb | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is bringing together several different issues. It is entirely the case that at th...

John McDonnell | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) Many of my constituents would have welcomed the increase but they cannot because they are no longer ...

Anne Begg | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) People can get the uprating only if they get the benefit in the first place, and, despite what the M...

Steve Webb | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady, the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, knows, that is a measure in the Welf...

Philip Hollobone | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) Pensioners in the Kettering constituency will warmly welcome the £5.30 a week increase in the basic ...

Steve Webb | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right; it was remiss of me not to trumpet that fact. Last year, we anno...

Steve Webb | 537 c171 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for welcoming our decisions on the DLA mobility component. Clear...

Hywel Williams | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Government's decision on the mobility component? That is vindication of the wide c...

Steve Webb | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. Not only does the pensions boost help women, but the pension credit b...

Harriett Baldwin | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that many more women than men are on pension credit and that about 60% of...

Steve Webb | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has raised that point, because it is a selective quotation from th...

Steve Webb | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) For someone retiring this year on a full basic state pension, the triple lock, we estimate, will ben...

Simon Danczuk | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) As we approach Christmas, does the Minister not think it extremely sad that his latest cuts to tax c...

Steve Webb | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Lady was a Minister in our Department, and she will understand that the way the...

Marcus Jones | 537 c170 (Link to this contribution) How much better off will the average pensioner in Nuneaton be following the introduction of the trip...

Helen Goodman | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) The Minister made much of his belief that CPI protects the standard of living of pensioners, but on ...

Gloria De Piero | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) Children's well-being does not just depend on benefits; it is often about child maintenance, too. So...

Steve Webb | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is characteristically persuasive. It is absolutely clear that a system in which we pa...

Jenny Willott | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the state pension and the state earnings-related pension scheme will rise by...

Steve Webb | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have a great deal of respect, will be aware that the reward for...

Steve Webb | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right that we have already taken, I think, just over 1 million families or i...

Nigel Mills | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that rather than trapping more low-paid families in the complicated web of m...

Steve Webb | 537 c168 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Maria...

Steve Webb | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that the Minister's partial statement today will in the next couple of years result i...

Anne Main | 537 c167 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the £6.6 billion that the Minister has announced today will be welcome to many famili...

Steve Webb | 537 c172 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that the vast majority of people who are unemployed are actively looking for jobs. I...

David Winnick | 537 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), who is yet to reach the 19th century, attacked the unem...

Steve Webb | 537 c171 (Link to this contribution) People are still better off in work. When we have the Secretary of State's universal credit, that wi...

Andrew Love | 537 c171 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister take this opportunity to admit that the policies of the coalition have led to a di...

Steve Webb | 537 c171 (Link to this contribution) It was entirely right that we went ahead with Labour's planned cut to the winter fuel payment. We re...

Nia Griffith | 537 c171 (Link to this contribution) As we all understand, with rocketing fuel and food prices these rises are not as generous as they lo...

Sheila Gilmore | 537 c172 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is trumpeting the highest ever increase for pensioners, which I am sure they welcome, b...

Steve Webb | 537 c172 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall the previous Government ever using something other than inflation or using a differe...

Jonathan Ashworth | 537 c172 (Link to this contribution) Further to his answers to my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Mr Love) and my right hon. Friend ...

Steve Webb | 537 c172 (Link to this contribution) There is a danger of missing the central points here, which are that people are better off in work, ...

Gregg McClymont | 537 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement, and welcome some of his announcements about...

Steve Webb | 537 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the bits of the hon. Gentleman's speech that actually responded to my statement, b...

Gregg McClymont | 537 c166 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Minister will have studied the IFS presentation. Will he confirm that it...

Steve Webb | 537 c163-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker, with permission I should like to make a statement about the uprating of social security ...

Speaker | 537 c169 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for having to interrupt the hon. Gentleman. I do not know what has come over the ...

Speaker | 537 c166 (Link to this contribution) Order. I gently say to the shadow Minister that he knows that debate should be conducted through the...

Subjects

Disability living allowance Social security benefits State retirement pensions Tax allowances Uprating Retail prices index Consumer prices index Average earnings

Contains statistics

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