Universal Credit and Welfare Reform Debate

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Department: Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit and Welfare Reform

Jake Berry Excerpts
Tuesday 11th September 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Iain Duncan Smith Portrait Mr Duncan Smith
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I am not one for discussing what goes on privately. I have been kicking around this game long enough to know that sometimes people like other people to move or be promoted, but some of us are not interested in careers. We reached a settlement and we are very happy—it was a happy discussion. We are a Government of friends, we get on enormously well and we do not need to worry about what everybody else says about us.

Jake Berry Portrait Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen) (Con)
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I would like to take my right hon. Friend back to the online delivery of the universal credit. Although figures vary, he will be aware that the vast majority of people living in social housing have no access to the internet. BT does a social housing telephone tariff. Will he explore the possibility of a social housing broadband tariff to enable those who want to claim their benefits online to do so?