Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Work and Pensions

Oral Answers to Questions

Clive Efford Excerpts
Monday 1st July 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I can confirm that, and it is refreshing to be able to point out that universal credit is, compared with the legacy benefits, a more generous, more effective and better-targeted system, and it is also better funded.

Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
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My 16-year-old constituent has a severe hearing impairment and has been on DLA since the age of three. My constituent has recently been reassessed and is now receiving no support whatsoever. How do the Government justify such decisions?