Social Security Payments: Uprating

Baroness Browning Excerpts

Monday 10th October 2022 Lords Chamber

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

As I said—I am sorry, I have to repeat it—we are committed to supporting disabled people, which is why we have recently paid £150 to 6 million disabled people. As I said, for additional needs disability benefits and carers’ benefits, the Secretary of State conducts a review once the relevant CPI figure is published. I am afraid we will have to wait for that.

[Baroness Browning (Con)]

I welcome my noble friend to his new post. Could he undertake an initiative within his department to arrange to publish the much-delayed statistics that I believe the department has had for some time on the suicide rate among benefit claimants?

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

I thank the noble Baroness for that. It is something I will take back to the department.