| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Social Security |
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Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): What estimate he has made of the proportion of appeals against medical assessment leading to refusal of benefit that are upheld by the Independent Appeal Tribunal.
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150480
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Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): If he will make a statement on the cost to business of the measures arising from the Social Security Fraud Bill.
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150481
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| *3 |
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): If he will make a statement on progress in tackling benefit fraud.
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150482
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| *4 |
Mr John McFall (Dumbarton): What plans he has to inform older people of the pensioner credit proposals.
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150483
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Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): What the cost is of the winter fuel allowance paid in the winter of 2000-01.
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150484
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Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): What plans he has to increase the income of the parents of children living in poverty.
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150485
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Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): How many people he expects will benefit from the winter fuel allowance for 2001-02.
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150486
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Mr Alan W. Williams (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): What his most recent estimate is of the number of pensioners in receipt of the minimum income guarantee and the number of eligible pensioners who have not applied.
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150487
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Caroline Flint (Don Valley): What action he has taken in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Defence about revision of the services pay regulations which prevent CSA deductions of earnings orders being implemented on service personnel.
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150489
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Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What recent representations he has received on means testing of benefits; and if he will make a statement.
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150490
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Mr David Ruffley (Bury St. Edmunds): What plans he has to reform the administration of housing benefit.
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150491
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Rachel Squire (Dunfermline West): If he will make a statement on the responses received during the consultation period on pension credit.
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150493
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Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): If he will make a statement on the Goverment's policy on means testing of pensioners' benefits.
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150494
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Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): How many complaints he has received about the operation of the Child Support Agency over the past year; and if he will make a statement.
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150495
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Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): If he will make a statement on the administration of the housing benefit system.
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150497
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Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): What plans he has to review the system of paying retirement pensions to ensure that payments are made from the actual day of entitlement rather than from the following Monday.
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150498
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Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): What steps he is taking to combat social security fraud.
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150499
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Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): What representations he has had from employers' organisations about the New Deal for disabled people.
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150500
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Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): How many pensioner households in the North West are in receipt of a free television licence.
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150501
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Angela Smith (Basildon): What representations he has received on the New Deal for Lone Parents.
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150504
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| *21 |
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): What plans he has to (a) increase the take-up of benefits and (b) simplify the procedure for receiving benefits.
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150505
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Mr Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish): What plans he has to help pensioners who have savings.
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150506
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Mr Desmond Browne (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): What steps he proposes to take to improve the administration of housing benefit.
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150507
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| *24 |
Helen Jones (Warrington North): What steps he is taking to tackle pensioner poverty.
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150508
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| *25 |
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend East): How many persons no longer receive disability allowances which they previously received over the past 12 months.
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150509
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Mrs Liz Blackman (Erewash): What recent discussions he has had with pensioner organisations about the level of spending by his Department on pensioners.
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150510
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Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): How many pensioners are eligible for the minimum income guarantee in (a) Wales and (b) England; and how many and what proportion have had their applications approved to date.
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150511
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Mr Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): If he will make a statement on the action he will take against local authorities which have a poor record for addressing housing benefit fraud.
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150512
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Mr David Amess (Southend West): When he last met the (a) National Autistic Society, (b) MENCAP, (c) Royal Institute for Blind People, (d) Royal National Institute for Deaf People, (e) Council for Disabled Children and (f) Down's Syndrome Association to discuss the provision of benefits.
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150513
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| *30 |
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What representations he has received about the exclusion from eligibility for winter fuel allowance in respect of those who are aged 60 years or over on the relevant date.
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150514
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Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): Pursuant to his oral Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 1, what the value is of bereavement benefit anticipated to be paid out; and what conveniently available figures he has for the likely number of recipients.
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150515
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| *32 |
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): If he will make a statement on the means testing of benefits.
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150516
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Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): What proposals he has to provide a greater incentive to save by those in receipt of, or on the threshold of, benefits.
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150517
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Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood): How many prosecutions for social security fraud were secured in each calendar year since 1996.
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150518
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Main Business |
| + 1 | ADJOURNMENT [Until 10.00 p.m.]
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| The Prime Minister
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| That this House do now adjourn.
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| Proposed subject for debate: Welsh Affairs.
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| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
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| + 2 | DELEGATED LEGISLATION: Adjourned Debate on Question [28th February]. [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Motion made and Question proposed, That the Motions in the name of Mr Secretary Straw relating to the Electoral Commission shall be treated as if they related to instruments subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 118 (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) in respect of which notice has been given that the instruments be approved— (Mr Clive Betts).
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 3 | LIAISON COMMITTEE (SUB-COMMITTEE) [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Margaret Beckett
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| That Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee) be amended as follows:
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| `( ) The committee shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.
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| ( ) The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee.
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| ( ) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.'.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 4 | SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE: Adjourned Debate on Question [31st January]. [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest— (Paddy Tipping).
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 5 | SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL: Adjourned Debate on Question [23rd January]. [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Motion made, and Question proposed, That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr Nicholas Winterton, Mr John McWilliam, Mr Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session— (Paddy Tipping).
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 6 | SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS) [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Margaret Beckett
Paddy Tipping
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| That Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended as follows:
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| Line 40, before the word `European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'.
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| Line 50, before the word `European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'.
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| Line 52, at the end insert the words:—
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| `(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 7 | LANGUAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Margaret Beckett
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| (1) this House approves the First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2000-01 (HC 47); and
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| (2) the Resolution of 5th June 1996 on the Language of Parliamentary Proceedings be amended accordingly by inserting, after the word `Wales,', the words `and at Westminster in respect of Select Committees'.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| 8 | EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Mr John McWilliam, on behalf of the Committee of Selection
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| That Mr Ian Pearson be discharged from the Education and Employment Committee and Mr Kerry Pollard be added to the Committee.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 9 | PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
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| Mr Keith Bradley
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| That Mr John McFall be discharged from the Public Administration Committee and Mr David Lammy be added to the Committee.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting:
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| 10 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Government policy on removal of abandoned vehicles (Jane Griffiths).
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| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
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