Lord Flight
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(9 years, 12 months ago)
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Lord Freud
We have a system with the spare room subsidy where there is support at a local level through discretionary housing payment, and this is exactly the kind of case where you would expect to see that payment made.
Lord Flight (Con)
Can the Minister tell the House how many more people are in employment as a result of the incentives offered by universal credit?
Lord Freud
We have some financial incentives within universal credit to encourage people to go into work compared with the legacy system. The best and most recent data we have show that over a six-month period, 69% of people would have had some work in universal credit compared with 65% in the comparable JSA cohort.