"6. If he will make an assessment of the effect of the length of waiting time to receive universal credit on levels of food bank usage. ..." Karen Lee - View Speech
"Given the waiting period for universal credit, people face a choice: they can have no money to buy food, so either use a food bank or starve, or they can get a loan, as the Secretary of State says. Does he agree that pushing people who are already on a …..." Karen Lee - View Speech
"5. If he will make an assessment of the effect of the length of waiting time to receive universal credit on levels of food poverty. ..." Karen Lee - View Speech
"The manager of a food bank in Lincoln has said that there is evidence of a clear correlation locally between the introduction of universal credit—in Lincoln, we have only had it partially so far; we are getting full roll-out in March—and an increase in the use of food banks. I …..." Karen Lee - View Speech
"My hon. Friend the Member for North West Durham (Laura Pidcock) spoke well at PMQs about the effect of universal credit in her constituency. Lincoln also has pockets of deprivation: some 13,000 people who work earn less than the living wage; one in four children live in poverty; one in …..." Karen Lee - View Speech
A bill to make provision establishing a new financial guidance body; to make provision about the funding of debt advice in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; and to make provision about the regulation of claims management services.