Speeches by Yang.

“Has that data been collected over time with the intention of assessment and analysis of the benefit, or is it collected just as a by-product of HMRC’s tax returns?”

“It just strikes me that the collection of data and the design of the data collection has not necessarily been done with impact assessment in mind. That is the case not just for this particular tax credit, but for over 1,000 tax reliefs that remain in the Treasury and HMRC’s hands. I just wanted to register that concern…”

“I join my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) in her thanks to the Minister and the Foreign Office. Since arriving home yesterday I have been inundated with support from MPs, hundreds of whom have written to me personally to express their solidarity. That outpouring of support has come from a…”

“Is there an assessment, outside of the OBR, of how many people will be back in work as a result of the PIP eligibility reforms?”

“Do you know how much of that £500 comes from the imputed measures, or is that something that you will set out to the Committee later in writing?”

“I have some specific questions about metrics on which it may be appropriate to bring in your team. Is there a regional aspect to this metric? The Prime Minister mentioned high living standards in every region of the country.”

“Thank you, Chancellor, for coming before us with your team. I was in the audience when the Prime Minister announced his key milestones for this Government at the end of last year, including the twin economic milestones of higher growth and higher living standards in every region of the country. Can you set out why it w…”

“I just echo Ms McEvoy’s concern that constituents in many of our constituencies feel that there is a downside risk, in that they feel that the criteria scoring is now quite clear in terms of who might miss out on the four points criterion, and who might have two or three points in different areas, but the upside gain i…”

“Hypothetically, what would you say to somebody who writes to me, or to other MPs, thinking that they may lose this benefit? Would you say that the final assessment format is not yet out there, that there is no clear line about who is or who is not going to lose it, and that they should wait for the process? Is that the…”

“Would you consider people who do not score at least four points in any criterion not to be that severely disabled?”

“I have a question about getting people back into work, since expanding the capacity of the economy across all regions is a really important mission for this Government. I am a bit concerned about the data in the ONS labour force survey, as the Committee has quite thoroughly covered. I am glad to see the Cabinet Office …”

“In its outlook, the OBR explained that much of the £500 you mentioned comes from imputed rent, which it describes as “what homeowners would receive if they rented out their home.” That makes the boost less tangible for households because it is an imputed measure rather than a cash in your pocket measure. I appreciate t…”

“So it is addressed to those who, under the new rules, would be eligible for PIP, but might be losing some universal credit?”

“What a shame.”

“I seek a quick clarification on Ms McEvoy’s question. On protecting the most severely disabled, is that package meant to buffer the universal credit reforms or the PIP reforms?”

“We will go on to the reforms later, but as a final question on the data, does anyone on the panel have any confidence in the sickness-related inactivity data? How much can we track the underlying increase or otherwise in sickness-related inactivity?”

“Does that mean that you think that the UK is not an outlier in terms of inactivity, and that that is a problem for the Government to address, or do you have a different opinion about that?”

“We heard earlier from the OBR about concerns about the labour force survey. It is an issue we have raised with the ONS as a Committee. I wanted to start by asking Ruth Curtice to describe the different modelling the Resolution Foundation has done, which in your central estimate finds no net increase in activity from 20…”

“Mr Johnson, whose statistics do you prefer: the Resolution Foundation’s or the IFS’s?”

“There is also the implication in a lot of media discourse that the increase in PIP caseloads is not matched by an underlying increase in disability and that, therefore, there is some gaming. Do you see that in the data that you have looked at?”