Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jessica Morden and Paul Maynard

Monday 5th February 2024 Commons Chamber

[Paul Maynard]

The Department is co-operating with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman investigation, which is ongoing, and it would not be appropriate to comment on it or the outcome.

[Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)]

T8. My constituent’s universal credit payments have been stopped over Christmas for two years running, because her employer pays her salary early in December. Why will Ministers not do more to ensure that caseworkers know that they can use the discretion that they have, so that my constituents and others like her have financial certainty at what is a very difficult time of year?