Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill — 3 Feb 2025 at 20:29
“It is concerning that DWP is not providing a decent service to all its customers, who include some of the most vulnerable in society and some of those with the most complex needs. In particular, claimants of disability benefits, including Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), are receiving an unacceptably poor service including processing times compared with those receiving Universal Credit (UC) and State Pension.”
“spoiling the system for the 97% of ‘genuine’ benefit claims”,
“the millions of households that are rightfully and legitimately supported by a social safety net designed to be there for all of us when we need it.”
“shows that DWP no longer expects Universal Credit fraud and error to return to the levels seen before…the COVID-19 pandemic”.
“turning off the tap to criminals who cheat the system and steal law-abiding taxpayers’ money.”
“The Minister may impose a penalty on a person if satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the person has carried out, or conspired to carry out, fraud”.
“provision for a liable person to be disqualified”.
“If we want to maintain support for the welfare state, then we will legislate to stop benefit fraud”.
“I want to ensure that there is no safe harbour for fraudsters, no compromise in our pursuit of their schemes and no escape from justice.”-[Official Report, 17 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 124.]
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| DUP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 40.0% |
| Green | 0 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 5 | 0 | 42.9% |
| Lab | 339 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 84.6% |
| LDem | 0 | 63 (+2 tell) | 0 | 90.3% |
| PC | 0 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 7 | 0 | 77.8% |
| Traditional Unionist Voice | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 340 | 87 | 0 | 68.0% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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