In Parliament - Karen Buck MP

Here you’ll find all the speeches I’ve made and the questions I’ve asked in Parliament as MP for Westminster North.

I do my best to speak up on the issues that really matter to our community and our country. If you ever want to know where I stand on something that matters to you, please feel free to email me at buckk@parliament.uk

Employment and Support Allowance: City of Westminster and Kensington

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity...

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis

Commons debates

With a large Afghan community as well, I am hearing every day stories of relatives who are murdered, who are disappeared, who are hungry and who are suffering from medical emergencies. That...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claims were found to be inaccurate since April 2020; and in how many of those cases (a)...

Covid-19: Government Support for Business

Commons debates

I am acutely aware, having a constituency on the edge of the west end, of the impact that the pandemic has had not only on hospitality and tourism, but on the culture, arts and live performance...

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

Department of Health and Social Care

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 67052 tabled by the hon. Member for Westminster North.

Human Rights Legislation

Commons debates

Leading human rights lawyer and expert, and former adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Adam Wagner, said of these proposals this morning that this Government may be the first in the...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minute, UCPB160719 Paper 1, deposited in the House of Commons Library on 28 October...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minute, UCPB160719 Paper 1, deposited in the House of Commons Library on 28 October...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minutes, UCPB140519 Paper 1, deposited in the House of Commons Library on 28 October...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Programme Board minutes, UCPB140519 Paper 1, deposited in the House of Commons Library on 28 October...

Coronavirus: Vaccination

Department of Health and Social Care

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what timeframe his Department has in place for issuing digital Covid recovery certificates; how many people were waiting for those...

Increased Living Costs: Benefit Claimants

Work and Pensions

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

With housing costs a major driver of poverty, the Government have decided yet again to freeze the local housing allowance, hitting millions of renters. As the Minister well knows, neither...

Local Housing Allowance

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Equality Impact Assessment carried out by her Department in 2020 on the uprating of Local Housing Allowance rates to the...

Local Housing Allowance

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the consultation undertaken by her Department in advance of the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit...

Household Support Fund

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the guidance issued to local authorities in England on 11 November 2021 on the use of the Household Support Fund emphasises...

Local Housing Allowance

Department for Work and Pensions

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 16 November 2021 to Questions 70219, 70220 and 70221 on Local Housing Allowance, what estimate she has made of the...

Topical Questions

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

Further to the Minister’s reply on the question of Afghanistan, Afghan residents in my constituency and elsewhere are watching the slide of that country into starvation with absolute horror...

Rents: Arrears

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of tenants in rent arrears as a result of the covid-19 outbreak and (b) total...

Rents: Arrears

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Karen Buck received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if she will commission independent research to estimate the (a) number of tenants in rent arrears as a result of the...

Topical Questions

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Karen Buck made a speech in the House of Commons

The Everyone In policy was very successful in taking rough sleepers off the streets at the beginning of the pandemic, but it was abandoned too quickly and last winter thousands of people were...