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Working Tax Credits

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

536 c319-28WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Chloe Smith | 536 c328WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed, we need to incentivise people to go into the workplace. However, we have less money than we ...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c328WH (Link to this contribution) Surely, that is the purpose of working tax credits. As has been said, with universal credit, the Gov...

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Chloe Smith | 536 c326-8WH (Link to this contribution) We need to move in one direction in this economy, which is to tackle the deficit. I made that point ...

Stephen Timms | 536 c326WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister's Department is making the hours rule worse now. It will be better in the future; why i...

Chloe Smith | 536 c326WH (Link to this contribution) The point I was about to make was that the introduction of universal credit is where the Government ...

Cathy Jamieson | 536 c326WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. Before she moves on to work incentives, will she address the po...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c325WH (Link to this contribution) May I bring the Minister back to the specific move from 16 to 24 hours? The figures I have from the ...

Chloe Smith | 536 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) Let me move on to the change that the hon. Gentleman highlighted, which is the move from 16 to 24 ho...

Stephen Timms | 536 c325WH (Link to this contribution) I know that the Minister was a member of the Welfare Reform Bill Committee, and so is very familiar ...

Chloe Smith | 536 c325WH (Link to this contribution) Regrettably, I thought that the hon. Gentleman wanted to respond to why higher earners would have re...

Chloe Smith | 536 c324-5WH (Link to this contribution) Let me reiterate, first, the incontrovertible point that we are taking more from bankers every year ...

Andrew Smith | 536 c320WH (Link to this contribution) I join the chorus of congratulations extended to my hon. Friend. I hope that he gets time to make so...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. They stand to lose even more when child care is taken into consideration. There is an in...

Stephen Timms | 536 c320WH (Link to this contribution) This is a very important point. Will my hon. Friend confirm that they will lose not only their worki...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c320WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. It is specifically the impact on people working in, for instance, the r...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c321-2WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I am very grateful to USDAW for its support in giving me research and case studies r...

Cathy Jamieson | 536 c321WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for securing this debate. I am sure he will be aware of th...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c320-1WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. A family currently on £18,000 a year could lose £4,000, which is a huge loss. It will, as I ...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c319-20WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. If we had had one of the longer slots for debate, perhaps we could have...

Bill Esterson | 536 c320WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has done well to secure this debate. He is talking about the difficulties of getting ...

Ann Coffey | 536 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on getting this important debate. We are all sorry that it is not long...

Debbie Abrahams | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) Would the Minister confirm that 100,000 extra children will be pushed into poverty as a result of th...

Chloe Smith | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) I am unsure from his comments whether he accepts the premise that we are in difficult economic times...

Sharon Hodgson | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) As we realised from the autumn statement yesterday, the Chancellor seems quite fond of giving with o...

Chloe Smith | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that that figure relates to the measures of child poverty as set out by the Child Pove...

Debbie Abrahams | 536 c324WH (Link to this contribution) That still does not explain—to pick up a point one of my hon. Friends made—why you are choosing to p...

Chloe Smith | 536 c323-4WH (Link to this contribution) I thank her very much for her consideration in the sequencing of interventions and I will come on to...

Chloe Smith | 536 c322WH (Link to this contribution) First, may I congratulate the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan Reynolds) on securing t...

Bill Esterson | 536 c322-3WH (Link to this contribution) In her reply, will the Minister deal with the central issue of fairness? Does she think that targeti...

Chloe Smith | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) I will happily tackle that. In fact, the hon. Gentleman brings me straight to the main point with wh...

Andrew Smith | 536 c323WH (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. If we accept for a moment the premise of her argu...

Jonathan Reynolds | 536 c319WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to have been able to secure a debate on which I have been trying to be successful i...

Subjects

Childcare Benefits rules Families Eligibility Part-time employment Welfare tax credits Working tax credit

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