Speeches by Hack.

“I will speed on to the next question. Thank you. Paul, you talked earlier about the working age to pension credits and that sort of that pre-pensionable age concern. What can we do to ease the transition from Universal Credit to pension credits? What problems would that address?”

“To follow on from that, as part of this reform should the Government consider looking at tapering the pension credit try and reduce the cliff edge that we have now and that threshold of missing out on other passported benefits?”

“We have zero minutes to get answers to two questions and so I will be brief on a few key elements. The Government’s plan to pull together pension credit and housing benefit is a way to try to increase take up. I am interested to understand your view of those challenges and, conversely, the real opportunity that that co…”

“In your response to the inquiry, the Greater Manchester combined authority was looking for more devolution for youth provision. What would that enable?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) for bringing forward this important Bill. I enjoyed his passionate—although a little loud—speech. He is right that the public want better, and I think the actions that we have taken in government show that we want better too. In recent months there have …”

“I served on the Water (Special Measures) Bill Committee and obviously did my research on that. However, nothing changed: so we had a plan, but what we need is action, and that is the most important part of the approach we need to take. Bonuses have still been paid to executives. Since 2020 they have rewarded themselves…”

“We have had two panels today. One of the things that we wanted to delve down into is the challenges that you see faced by people that are age 60 up to pensionable age who are not in paid work or are struggling to get that full-time work. Have you seen that change as there has been raises in the state pension?”

“Lovely. Thank you. Would any other mechanisms enable policy for older people to be better joined up more generally? For example, could an older people’s commissioner for the UK help? If so, how would that help?”

“Adding on to that, the situation is you would prefer people who are living in the private rented sector to live in social housing. The social housing sector has only a limited amount of specialist housing. What work has been done to try to lobby for more extra care? I worked in social housing for 20 years and we did no…”

“We are due to see another uplift in the pensionable age between 2026 to 2028. What support would you like to see from the Government for those unable to continue working up to 67?”

“We have talked already about the power of face-to-face support over other types of support. To what extent do you think the provision that we have meets the demands of what we need on face to face?”

“I have a quick question on the help to claim scheme. We have the help to claim scheme on universal credit. Is there something to introduce along similar lines for pension credit?”

“We want to make sure that people are healthy and happy in their homes for as long as possible. What do you do from a local government perspective to try to broker that gap between what people need and what they have? How do we get to what they need?”

“Yes, absolutely. David, from a local authority point of view, what are the tangible outcomes of working to bring health and housing together and what are the limitations? I imagine each local authority area will take their own view on how they do that. Is there any sense of how that could be consistently applied?”

“You started off with the local government reorganisation. My constituency is in a three-tier environment and so we have a district council that controls the local plan and the county council that does the rest. The fragmentation of those two elements quite often means that local plans do not have enough future housing …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing this incredibly important debate. I reiterate her point that we are talking about fundamental communication and giving every person the opportunity to learn and to access all the servi…”

“I get so many people in North West Leicestershire telling me about the toxic sewage pouring into their waterways, such as in the brook near Donington le Heath. Will the Secretary of State assure me that, unlike the previous Government, when he says that he will hold the water bosses to account, he means it?”

“Two GP practices have told me that they are waiting for section 106 money to be released so that they can improve their facilities, but that it has been stuck between decision-makers. Will the Secretary of State outline how the changes will help to release those kinds of delays and finally allow North West Leicestershi…”

“Absolutely. The sad fact is that we always talk about teenagers, but if we can give that resilience to children as young as seven to 10, we might be able to prevent them from becoming poorly when they get older. We have to start those conversations as early as possible to build resilience and confidence in our young pe…”

“I first want to say how incredible it is that Members are stood here in the Houses of Parliament discussing the mental health of our young people, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Redditch (Chris Bloore) for bringing forward such a critical debate. In a previous role on the health scrutiny committee for Leices…”