Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Green and Carolyn Harris

Monday 17th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Damian Green]

Universal credit, which is now being paid to more than 300,000 people, has already shown that people will get into work and progress in work faster and that they are more likely to seek work. If the Opposition accept, as I think they do, that work is the best route out of poverty, they will welcome universal credit because, when it is paid to more parents it helps children in those families to be in households where there is work. That will be the best way to get them out of poverty.

[Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) (Lab)]

4. Whether his Department plans to take steps to introduce transitional protection for women adversely affected by the acceleration of increases in the state pension age.