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29 June 2026

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Oral questions to DWP Ministers on youth unemployment, child poverty, benefit design and the wider welfare bill, followed by scrutiny of pensions policy, disability and carer benefits, enforcement and safeguarding after serious DWP errors.

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Work and Pensions questions — welfare, pensions and safeguards

34:18

Work and Pensions questions — opening, youth unemployment and child poverty

34:18

Opening of sitting and move to Work and Pensions

34:18

House proceedings — appointment of new Clerk

34:18

Appointment of new Clerk of the House

34:18

Youth employment and Jobcentre access

35:45

Secretary of State — youth unemployment context

35:45

Jobcentre access and youth employment support

37:24

Lib Dem question — DWP office closures and local jobs

39:56

Rural employment — official figures vs constituency experience

41:15

Welfare caps and targeted youth employment schemes

43:08

Benefit cap, child poverty and welfare reform

43:08

Benefit cap, child poverty and two-child limit

43:08

Scottish child poverty rates and further reforms

45:06

Conservative backbencher attack on high benefit awards

46:09

Youth employment support — youth hubs and Youth Guarantee

47:50

Youth hubs expansion — grouped departmental statement

47:50

Youth hubs — constituency benefits in Cardiff, Harlow, East Herts and Dartford

48:51

Youth unemployment criticism, business impacts and support for care leavers

53:29

Question 6 and Youth Guarantee rollout — Peterborough and SME incentives

58:20

Conservative challenge on labour market policy and Youth Guarantee defence

01:02:04

Targeted welfare support — local vulnerability and youth poverty

01:03:43

Identifying Local Vulnerability and in‑work Universal Credit

01:03:43

Question 7 — Identifying Local Vulnerability data sharing

01:03:43

Question 8 — In‑work Universal Credit and low pay

01:06:18

Youth, care leavers and wider child poverty strategy

01:08:42

Question 10 — Care leavers’ Universal Credit rates and support

01:08:42

Question 11 — Child poverty strategy and funding options

01:11:11

Core DWP scrutiny — pensions, disability, carers and welfare safeguards

01:14:30

Main DWP questions and welfare bill debate

01:14:30

Main DWP questions — bereavement, pensions and fraud

01:14:30

Question 13 — Bereavement Support Payment reform pressures

01:14:30

Question 14 — Pensioner support, triple lock and future adequacy

01:17:03

Question 15 — fraud and error rates and Scottish prosecutions

01:20:20

Topical questions opening and welfare bill challenge

01:22:01

Topical opening — youth, pensions reports and DWP culture

01:22:01

Opposition exchange — welfare bill, tax and asylum seekers

01:24:04

DWP oral questions — labour market, carers and welfare policy

01:26:38

Topicals — enforcement, carers, youth hubs and housing pressures

01:26:38

Topicals — Child Maintenance enforcement and Carer’s Allowance waivers

01:26:38

Topicals — youth hubs’ employer links and pensioner tax thresholds

01:28:38

Pension scheme surpluses and temporary accommodation funding pressures

01:30:24

Work and Pensions Questions — youth employment, skills and benefits

01:32:26

Youth hub in Ada and Universal Credit bedroom tax error

01:32:26

Green pensions — climate risk guidance and PIP means‑testing

01:33:48

Youth unemployment data gaps, NEET surge and PIP review for care leavers

01:35:22

DLA to PIP for young people and rural youth hubs access

01:38:23

Reform UK proposals, white working‑class attainment and hiring incentives

01:40:45

Business engagement in skills, AI labour impacts and Youth Guarantee rollout

01:43:27

Topical questions — WASPI compensation and DWP safeguards

01:45:59

Topical questions — WASPI compensation and DWP failures

01:45:59

Topicals — WASPI compensation and DWP death notification error

01:45:59

Justice and Home Office — sentencing and asylum estate

01:48:27

Justice Minister questioned on early release of sexual offenders

01:48:27

Early release of serious sexual offenders — ministerial defence and scrutiny

01:48:27

Urgent question on early release of sex offenders — ministerial defence and initial challenges

01:48:27

Urgent question triggered — Justice Minister’s opening on early release scheme

01:48:27

Dr Mullan challenges inclusion of serious sex offenders; Minister on victim notification

01:50:45

Jess Phillips — exemptions for child rapists and risk assessment regime

01:55:07

Lib Dem spokesperson — victim support, probation capacity and notice periods

01:57:02

Jim McMahon — grooming gangs as ‘most serious’ offences and specific case

01:59:29

Robbie Moore and Fiona Goddard — assurances on grooming gang perpetrators

02:01:19

Monitoring early‑released offenders and robustness of electronic tagging

02:03:27

Cross-party Q&A — grooming gangs, probation capacity and demand for offender statistics

02:04:52

Backbench Conservatives and Reform UK — exclude grooming gangs from early release

02:04:52

Case-specific inquiries, remand decisions and demand for offender numbers

02:09:38

Victim distress, regional prison capacity and repeated demands for statistics

02:13:07

Early release of serious offenders — policy and accountability

02:15:34

Scottish policy comparison, NI Donaldson case and confidence in the justice system

02:15:34

Point of order — unanswered questions on numbers of early-released sex offenders

02:18:54

Asylum accommodation strategy, hotels and local impacts

02:20:53

Minister’s accommodation strategy and Conservative challenge

02:20:53

Minister and Conservative response — asylum hotels and large sites

02:20:53

Ministerial statement — ending hotel use and new asylum sites

02:20:53

Conservative response — oppose large sites and demand rapid removals

02:26:27

Local MPs — ex‑military asylum sites and hotels

02:31:37

RAF Barnham — local cohesion, transparency and engagement

02:31:37

Lib Dem spokesperson — costs, hotels closure and EU returns

02:33:58

Barnham site protests and role of planning authorities

02:37:49

Linton‑on‑Ouse — infrastructure limits and roaming concerns

02:40:10

Hotel closure priorities and pressure on Oldham housing

02:44:36

MOD Bicester site — community opposition and impact assessments

02:46:27

Hotel use, homelessness and asylum estate pressures

02:49:21

Temporary accommodation pressures and site extensions

02:49:21

Select Committee Chair — homelessness, 28‑day rule and competition for temporary accommodation

02:49:21

Crowborough Camp and Copthorne Hotel — communication failures and closure priorities

02:51:14

Asylum system principles, backlogs and devolved concerns

02:52:49

Asylum principles, ‘good character’ litigation and integration focus

02:52:49

Processing backlogs, appeals reform and return hubs

02:54:56

Scottish engagement, Caman Barracks and underlying system failures

02:57:44

Asylum estates pressure — IRCs, hotels and appeals

02:59:36

Haslar IRC planning powers and Bracknell resettlement pressures

02:59:36

Wethersfield centre capacity, hotel closure claims and community impact

03:02:22

Sandpiper Hotel in Chesterfield and accelerating asylum appeals

03:04:41

Tim Farron — asylum hotels, hostile rhetoric and Iranian case

03:06:33

Asylum accommodation policy, hotels and local impacts

03:08:06

New accommodation sites — local suitability, consent and contracts

03:08:06

Linton‑on‑Ouse site — York MP challenges suitability and engagement

03:08:06

Stoke Heath HMO — deterrence, secrecy and community meeting

03:10:03

Serco contracts, Dragonfly Hotel and local control

03:12:01

Hotel closures, returns policy and backlog management

03:14:15

Ramada Sutton Coldfield and Dudley hotel closure — timelines and returns

03:14:15

Pull factors, grant rates and clearing the asylum backlog

03:16:37

Asylum accommodation, local impacts and border security

03:18:58

MOD Bicester and Stoke Heath — rural suitability and health provision

03:18:58

Asylum policy — safe routes, barracks and appeals backlog

03:21:58

Border security, Irish CTA routes and hotel closure timelines

03:24:39

Cabinet Office Estimates — national security and governance scrutiny

03:29:52

Shift to Estimates and Cabinet Office scrutiny

03:29:52

Deputy Speaker’s admonishment and shift to Estimates

03:29:52

Speaker’s admonishment and move to Estimates

03:29:52

Deputy Speaker rebukes Minister over media-first announcements

03:29:52

Presentation of Water Regulation Bill and move to Estimates

03:31:03

Cabinet Office Estimates — security, resilience and fraud scrutiny

03:31:53

Cabinet Office security funding, climate risk and public sector fraud

03:31:53

Joint Committee Chair — Cabinet Office security spending and hybrid threats

03:31:53

Ellie Chowns — climate breakdown as core security risk

03:48:09

APPG Anti‑Corruption chair — COVID fraud, PPE Medpro and Hayhoe review

03:55:14

Opposition and backbench scrutiny of security funding

04:02:07

Lib Dem spokesperson Lisa Smart — whole‑of‑society security and foreign interference

04:02:07

Backbencher critique — defence spending and investment plan

04:07:54

Sectoral vulnerabilities — cyber, subsea cables, biosecurity and critical infrastructure

04:12:36

Whole‑of‑society resilience, China policy and foreign interference

04:15:05

Ministerial defence of National Security Strategy and debate closure

04:21:15

Cabinet Office Minister — National Security Strategy and resilience

04:21:15

Matt Western — debate wind‑up on security and resilience

04:36:42

Northern Ireland Office Estimates — budget deadlock and fiscal risks

04:39:07

NIO Estimates opening and budget deadlock

04:39:07

NIO Estimates debate — context and Executive budget deadlock

04:39:07

NIO Estimates — budget impasse and fiscal risks

04:39:07

Northern Ireland Affairs Chair — NIO Estimate, budget deadlock and overspends

04:39:07

Policing, security funding and ICRIR legacy caseload pressures

04:47:25

Executive budget deadlock, funding and NIO priorities

04:53:14

Jim Allister — budget deadlock, overspends and bailouts

04:53:14

Jim Allister — Irish Sea border and InterTrade UK funding

04:59:30

Katrina Murray — NI funding level and budget delays

05:05:18

Sammy Wilson — Executive budget deadlock and conditional extra funding

05:11:51

Northern Ireland — funding settlement and Estimates

05:18:57

Backbench and Opposition challenges on NI funding and legacy

05:18:57

NI funding pressures — DUP and backbench concerns

05:18:57

Sammy Wilson — NIO DEL uplift, Finucane inquiry and ICRIR costs

05:18:57

Sammy Wilson — ports fund, carbon tax and fraud savings

05:23:39

Muckamore Abbey abuse inquiry and social care transformation

05:28:11

Opposition scrutiny — NI budget, legacy costs and Windsor Framework

05:31:05

Liberal Democrat response — PSNI legacy costs, Windsor Framework and asylum data

05:31:05

Shadow Secretary — NI budget deadlock and legacy costs

05:35:23

Northern Ireland funding settlement and Estimates

05:42:15

Secretary of State — funding settlement and structural fiscal pressures

05:42:15

Secretary of State — funding levels, Barnett formula and service outcomes

05:42:15

Overspends, structural fiscal problems and revenue raising

05:46:56

Northern Ireland Estimates — budget, policing and legacy

05:51:10

Local growth fund, ports commitments and Casement Park

05:51:10

Secretary of State — devolved policing budgets and security funding

05:53:06

Legacy funding, Troubles Act caseload and Muckamore inquiry

05:57:31

Northern Ireland Estimates debate wound up under Standing Order No. 54

06:04:48

MoJ Estimates scrutiny — justice system funding

06:06:33

MoJ Estimates scrutiny — justice system performance

06:06:33

Parliamentary scrutiny of MoJ budget and justice system performance

06:06:33

Committee Chairs — MoJ Estimates and system-wide pressures

06:06:33

Public Accounts Chair — integrated justice system and funding pressures

06:06:33

Justice Committee Chair — MoJ Estimates and system pressures

06:21:09

Commons debate — courts, legal aid, prisons and probation

06:32:05

Sir Ashley Fox — oppose jury trial curbs and defend prison education

06:32:05

Backbench Labour — legal aid funding, IT and backlog impact

06:40:39

Catherine McKinnell — court delays, estate maintenance and prisoner transport

06:45:33

Lib Dem spokesperson — court backlogs, jury trials and victim access

06:53:08

Lib Dem proposals — prison education, probation culture and rural policing

06:59:06

MoJ and Home Office Estimates — sentencing, courts and early release

07:04:55

Shadow Minister — Estimates, sentencing policy and asylum

07:04:55

Shadow Minister opens — Estimates, government limbo and early release

07:04:55

Sentencing Act exclusions, victim cases and unknown offender numbers

07:10:47

Jury trial rights, Courts Bill and backlog data

07:15:15

Home Office link — police numbers, Conservative crime plan and asylum costs

07:18:26

Justice Minister — inheritance, court recovery and early release

07:20:50

Minister Sackman response — inheritance, choices and justice investment

07:20:50

Courts strategy — legal aid, workforce and victim support funding

07:24:16

Justice Minister — court backlog, jury trials and early release scheme

07:27:15

Estimates debate wrap‑up and House procedural business

07:40:31

Public Accounts Chair — concerns over early release, tagging and reoffending

07:40:31

Procedural business — Committee appointments and adjournment

07:43:22

DES scandal debate — opening context and demands

07:44:25

DES scandal debate — opening context and demands

07:44:25

DES scandal debate — health impacts and accountability demands

07:44:25

DES scandal adjournment debate — impacts and demands

07:44:25

Adjournment debate opened — DES scandal context

07:44:25

Intergenerational health impacts, testimonies and screening gaps

07:48:58

Government responsibility, MHRA apology and DES Justice campaign asks

07:55:28

House of Commons

29 June 2026

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 Actual start 14:00 House of Commons

34:18 - 35:45

Speaker 1

In March, I announced to the House that Tom Goldsmith, the current Clerk of the House and Head of the House of Commons Service, had given notice that he will be leaving Parliament in the autumn. I am pleased to announce, following a competitive recruitment process, Eve Samson, the current Clerk of Journals, has been appointed as the 53rd Clerk of the House of Commons, following the approval of His Majesty the King. I am sure that you will join me in congratulating Eve, who has many outstanding qualities to bring to this important role. Having worked in the House with great dedication for almost 40 years, she brings a wealth of experience, insight, and will be a distinguished successor to Tom Goldsmith.

Arrangements will be made for a comprehensive handover period before Eve formally takes up the role in November. Until then, Tom will continue to carry out his duties as Clerk of the House. There is always a lot of work to do, and we'll make sure Tom works hard. There will also be an opportunity before then for colleagues to recognize more formally Tom's contribution to the House and to wish him all the very best in the future. We now come to questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Stephen Crabb.

35:45 - 36:19

Speaker 2

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

There are currently over 1 million young people not in education, employment or training. Youth employment in the United Kingdom has not reached its pre-financial crash levels in any single year since, and there has been a sharp rise in recent years in the number of young people not in education, employment or training. And that is why we are investing an additional 2.5 billion pounds over the next three years into the Youth Guarantee and the Growth and Skills Levy.

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