Speeches by Pinto-Duschinsky.

“No thank you; I have very little time. We have to deal with the root causes, so we have to focus on work. We also have to deal with the sustainability of the system, which is currently unsustainable. PIP claimant levels have risen at twice the level of underlying ill health. The rise since 2016 alone is equivalent to t…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. If we are to be serious about tackling poverty among disabled people, we need to be honest and focused on tackling its root causes and on making sure that the system is sustainable. The overwhelming driver of poverty among disabled people is low levels of empl…”

“Thank you so much.”

“Fantastic. This is my final question, as I am conscious of the Chair’s admonition on time. Clearly, as you mentioned, there is a task of bringing together cultures in services that work closely together but have always been separate. How are you thinking about the challenge of bringing those cultures together? What kin…”

“Thank you so much, Minister, for coming to speak to us. It is incredibly welcome and heartening to hear your vision for the extension of work coach coverage to make sure that they have more time to spend with everyone, and about the use of time and technology as the focus. Obviously, one of the challenges is that there…”

“Clearly one of the exciting opportunities this opens up is to do more on advancement support and supporting people’s journey through the labour market, as well as their entry into it. How will the new service support advancement and advancement considerations being factored in to the design of the new service?”

“Minister, one of the things you touched on earlier was the merger of Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service. What difference do you think that will make?”

“That sounds fantastic. Minister, you talked very powerfully about how so much of the power of the system lies in the knowledge of the frontline and people who spent a long time there, so recruitment and in particular retention are really important. Can you talk a bit about what the Department is doing to try to improve…”

“Minister, I was heartened to hear you mention the work coach academy, which sounds fantastic. How do we make sure that we get the best quality of advice through our work coaches? In particular, how is their knowledge of the labour market and the local labour market honed so that they give the best possible advice to ge…”

“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way he is setting out his case, given the sensitivity of this issue. Would he accept—I cannot, unfortunately, speak for the halal rules, but I can speak for the kashrut ones—that there is no school of kosher slaughtering that permits stunning?”

“I congratulate the Government on the bold action they are taking to end the feudal leasehold system for good, which will ensure that future flat owners will never again be treated as second-class homeowners. But as the Minister is well aware, there are millions of existing leaseholders, including thousands in my consti…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank hon. Members for engaging in the debate and I congratulate the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) on the way he has led it. I also thank Mr Osborne for instigating the petition. The debate allows us to directly address …”

“11. What steps she plans to take to reform the leasehold system.”

“The Environment Agency predicts that 8 million homes—one in four in England—could be at risk of flooding by 2050. Despite this, the Conservative party presided over a tripling of the proportion of our flood defences that are deemed “not adequate”. By contrast, this Labour Government are investing over £2.6 billion in n…”

“I thank you, Sir John, for chairing this debate and all hon. Members who have taken part in it for their thoughtful and stimulating contributions. Given the time constraints, I will make just three observations about the points that have been covered today. First, this debate has thrown into sharp relief the appalling …”

“I am sorry to hear about what has happened to my hon. Friend’s constituents. She is of course right that these kinds of crimes must be investigated—we must see consistent and robust investigation, a point I will touch on later in my speech. The figures are stark. Under the last Conservative Government, fraud surged at …”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the Serious Fraud Office and tackling fraud and economic crime. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. Economic crime affects us all. The fraud, money laundering, grand corruption and bribery that the Serious Fraud Office was established to address can…”

“This is fascinating. It sounds like the companies have an important role to play, not least as providers of data that will give us that integrated picture but, clearly, that is a longer-term project. Anthony, you are absolutely right, but the challenge of data integration in government is a difficult one, and GDPR make…”

“Thank you. Peter?”

“The reason this is important is that we have heard concerns about people who are just above the level of the cliff edge for passported benefits and therefore miss out. Anthony and Peter, this is almost your point that the Venn diagrams do not really overlap. Is there a better way of targeting where the state has inform…”