Tweet As a backbencher representing people of Suffolk Coastal, I speak in various debates and ask questions of ministers. I can also table written questions. Below you can see my most recent appearances in Parliament and the questions that I am asking.
Topical Questions | Work and Pensions | Commons debates This is one of the issues on my agenda for us to take forward a consistent and coherent approach, recognising the issue of cohabitees and
Topical Questions | Work and Pensions | Commons debates I have tried to make clear to the House that people will not be penalised for doing the right thing.
Topical Questions | Work and Pensions | Commons debates We are working, right across Government, on a number of different scenarios. We are preparing guidance carefully and I assure the hon.
Topical Questions | Work and Pensions | Commons debates I have tried to make it clear to the House, and will again, that—as has been said quite often—people who do the right thing, whether they
Child Poverty | Work and Pensions | Commons debates There are 743,000 fewer children in workless households compared with 2010.
Child Poverty | Work and Pensions | Commons debates I am conscious of CPAG’s report, which tends to use the relative “after housing costs” poverty measure.
Child Poverty | Work and Pensions | Commons debates The way universal credit works is for people to have payments in arrears, but 85% of eligible childcare costs are covered, compared with
Access to Employment for Ex-offenders | Work and Pensions | Commons debates I work closely with my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor as does the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon.