Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations concerning austerity measures in paragraph 19 of the UN Economic and Social Council report entitled, Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 24 June 2016.

The Government regularly assesses the impacts of its policies and will continue to do so.

The Government’s economic plan is delivering jobs for the UK. Our reforms, including the introduction of the National Living Wage, are helping to transform the life chances of people across the country.