Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jo Churchill and Jessica Morden

Monday 5th February 2024 Commons Chamber

[Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)]

T8. My constituent’s universal credit payments have been stopped over Christmas for two years running, because her employer pays her salary early in December. Why will Ministers not do more to ensure that caseworkers know that they can use the discretion that they have, so that my constituents and others like her have financial certainty at what is a very difficult time of year?

[Jo Churchill]

The way that universal credit works means that work coaches can use their flexibility, but if a payment is short one month, the appropriate thing to do is to sort it the next.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jo Churchill and Jessica Morden

Thursday 23rd June 2022 Commons Chamber

[Jo Churchill]

I do recognise the challenge. There is no change for animals coming from the EU to here and there is no reason why that arrangement should not be reciprocal. We are proactively engaging with the assistance dog community and relevant stakeholders and we are continuing the engagement with the EU to make sure that we can overcome this challenge.

[Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)]

7. What steps he is taking to tackle food insecurity.