Social Security Payments: Uprating

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Excerpts

Monday 10th October 2022 Lords Chamber

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

The noble Baroness has made a very fair point. I cannot say that I disagree with her.

[Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab)]

My Lords, I shall take the Minister back to the question asked by my noble friend Lady Lister. She asked what assessment the department used to understand the impact on poverty of not uprating in line with inflation. Can the Minister explain what that process is and what assessment has been made of the impact on poverty, because I do not think he answered that question first time round?

[Lord Davies of Gower (Con)]

The Government are considering CPI at the moment, so I am going to have to repeat that we will have to wait to see what the figures are. At that point, I will be able to come back to the noble Baroness.