Social Security Payments: Uprating

Baroness Berridge Excerpts

Monday 10th October 2022 Lords Chamber

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

Again, as I stand here, I cannot give my noble friend an exact answer, but I will go back and come back to my noble friend in writing.

[Baroness Berridge (Con)]

My Lords, it seems that there is a bit of confusion about the process. My noble friend Lord Forsyth outlined that there should have been a detailed analysis of the figures, but unfortunately there was previously an announcement by the Chancellor that this would happen and that has created confusion. I welcome my noble friend to the Front Bench. Can he assure the House that this is not a question of metrics for many people but is about their lives, that this confusion of process will have created undue stress for some of the people under the most pressure in our society and that the review will take into account the human cost of not abiding by the process that my noble friend Lord Forsyth outlined?

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

I thank my noble friend for that point, which I appreciate.