Speeches by Lowe.
Every Hansard contribution by Rupert Lowe this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 321–340 of 483 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “I just had one question in response to the answer on advance payments. One of my colleagues was going to ask a question, but they are not here.” | 28 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “In 2023-24, I think I am right in saying that £934 million in UC advances was recovered. You have not published how much was actually lost in UC advances. Will you commit to publishing that? It might be quite useful.” | 40 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “People who work within the DWP are telling me that it is a big problem. You are telling us that it is not a big problem. The people who work on the frontline think it is a huge problem.” | 39 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “As a matter of interest—you know this better than I do—is there a problem with the advance payments within universal credit? As a matter of interest, the advance payments seem to be the source of a lot of abuse. Would greater sanctions for those abusing the system, such as removal from any welfare payments if they abus…” | 61 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “There was a Bulgarian whistleblower, according to the media.” | 9 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “That is how they reported it.” | 6 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “Having read all this material, it seems to me that official DWP calculation errors are causing nearly as much loss as claimant errors. Why does the Department persist in framing the problem as primarily the claimant, rather than acknowledging serious failings within the DWP? That seemed to me to be a question. After 37…” | 73 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “Listening to your answers, which have been very enlightening, I think I am right in saying that the DWP is ramping up surveillance of claimants and issuing sanctions at record levels now. How does that explain the Department simultaneously losing £7.4 billion to fraud in 2023-24? Does that not play to serious issues wi…” | 108 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “Yes.” | 1 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Geoffrey, this is quite important because it does not go just to a staffing issue that Clive was raising. You have missed an opportunity to use tagging far more extensively. We can go on to talk about Serco in a minute, but I would like to know why it is that there has been no progress on rolling out tagging.” | 60 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I have one question for James.” | 6 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Can I ask James one question? Again, I looked at some public data on the website, and I find that a staggering 10% of probation offenders are foreign.” | 28 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Well, I will leave that on the record, then.” | 9 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “If you have started to test it, you have not been doing it, have you?” | 15 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Why are you not tagging the prisoners when they leave prison, which you are not doing?” | 16 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “What is the penalty for not performing under the contract?” | 10 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “It is quite important, Geoffrey.” | 5 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I started to ask about tagging. As I said, I have spoken to various people I know within the Probation Service, who say there are some extremely skilled staff working in the Probation Service. There are some highly skilled people. Again, I go back to these two reports that I mentioned earlier, one in 2022 to ’24 for Ri…” | 284 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Finally, as we have heard today, they want more money and more staff. I do not think that is the case. They need better organisation and better use of what is available now digitally. The digital revolution has changed things completely. I learned about this alcohol monitoring. That is incredible. There is a huge chang…” | 65 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I do not think you are doing that.” | 8 |