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Low-income Families: Benefits Freeze

Debate between Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb and Baroness Stedman-Scott
Monday 13th January 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stedman-Scott Portrait Baroness Stedman-Scott
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We have. I am sorry—it is a fact. We have more people in work than ever before, and—

Baroness Stedman-Scott Portrait Baroness Stedman-Scott
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I can answer that one too. While noble Lords will not want me to read out a shopping list of things we have done—I know that it does not go down well—I will mention three things: reducing UC debt deductions from 40% to 30%, increasing the national minimum wage and cutting income tax. I am assured by officials that that has put another £2 billion per annum into people’s pockets.

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