Universal Credit

Innocent.

Very well. We will let him off this occasion.

I had information that the question was on the letter that I received yesterday, so that is obvio...

Order.

At the end of the letter it says that

“the Department cannot measure the exact number of ad...

We are grateful for the Secretary of State’s apology—again—for one aspect of her behaviour where ...

We need to separate two parts of this. One bit is where I came myself to the House to apologise f...

While my right hon. Friend has apologised, could she confirm that the Labour party has yet to apo...

I am sorry but questions must be about the policy of the Government, not about other people not a...

rose—

No, the hon. Lady has already had one bite at the cherry. Let us have a masterclass from Sir Desm...

Mr Speaker, if you complain to me that I am being too slow, am I unreasonable in assuming that yo...

I thank my right hon. Friend for the way he said that. That was my interpretation of what I read ...

The Secretary of State should be ashamed that she has been forced to come to the House again. Yes...

Let me start from the top again. I did not fail to meet the Comptroller and Auditor General. As I...

I thank the Secretary of State for her apology. Like a number of other Members, I was very disapp...

My hon. Friend is right. That is one of the key points, because this is one of the biggest change...

The Secretary of State appears to be willing to mislead Parliament and to get into a fight with t...

Thank you.

This is not about phrasing, as the Secretary of State has said, because speeding up is not the sa...

Thank you. [Interruption.] Order. I am a little disconcerted to see the SNP Front-Bench spokesman...

We looked at the business case and looked through the conclusions, and for the £2 billion investe...

Order. I do want to accommodate a few more questioners and we must work on that basis.

Jobcentre staff across my constituency where universal credit has already been fully rolled out i...

That is what is coming out from the data we are gathering about what real people are saying about...

I am staggered and disappeared that in answer to the urgent question we have a Secretary of State...

What I would say is: they do their job. He came forward—[Interruption.] We need to separate this ...

I commend the Secretary of State’s work in the Department—she has shown a great commitment to imp...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Like most other people here, I came into politics to help peop...

At Monday’s Question Time, I asked the Secretary of State two questions. On Question 5, when I as...

When I answered the right hon. Gentleman’s questions, I said that the National Audit Office had s...

When I visited Stockport jobcentre and met its work coaches, I found an enthusiastic group of peo...

Everybody wants to improve people’s lives. That is what we are all here to do, and that is what o...

I suspect that the Secretary of State decided that she had to come to the House to apologise when...

If I may correct the hon. Lady, it was not to do with the letter. She incorrectly says that I cam...

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that universal credit simplifies the benefits system, helps to ...

I am happy to provide clarification: universal credit does simplify the system. It also provides ...

On this occasion, Mr Lloyd, perhaps a sentence.

That is always a challenge, Mr Speaker, but I will try.

Regrettably, I believe that the Sec...

Again, if I may correct the hon. Gentleman, we had agreed that that information was coming forwar...

Like my right hon. Friend, I grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s and have a particular sensitivity ...

I did not know my hon. Friend also spent his formative years in Liverpool. There are so many Cons...

For eight years Parliament’s only reliable information about the status of universal credit has c...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning my openness and the fact that I was willing, by m...

The NAO report notes that jobcentre staff have said that universal credit systems have “improved ...

I thank my hon. Friend, because nobody can do this in isolation or by themselves. We need the loc...

Does the Secretary of State agree with the National Audit Office that universal credit is moving ...

Some of the key changes that were done during this year were the advances to provide extra suppor...

Order. I allowed some injury time on two accounts. The first was that I had to intervene a number...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that the Secretary of State said that she had afforded her...

Nothing disorderly has happened. It is perfectly in order for the Secretary of State not to write...