Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Liz Kendall and Alison Hume

Monday 7th October 2024 Commons Chamber

[Liz Kendall]

Yes, we have already met Kim McGuinness, on 19 September, when she set out the actions she is already taking. Let me say to Members on both sides of the House that our strategy will be out in the spring, but we will not be waiting until then to act. Nationally, we have put £421 million into the household support fund to help the poorest families, and mayors such as Kim McGuinness are doing amazing work: they are working with schools to ensure that people claim the benefits to which they are entitled, and, crucially, working with businesses to help them to do all that they can to tackle in-work poverty and ensure that working families receive the money for those children.

[Alison Hume (Scarborough and Whitby) (Lab)]

15. What steps she is taking to tackle carer’s allowance overpayments.