Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Smith and Lucy Rigby

Tuesday 10th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Rigby]

As I have said, food banks should not need to exist, which is why this Government are committed to ending mass dependence on food parcels. I have also mentioned the importance of lifting the two-child limit on universal credit, which will result in the largest expected reduction in child poverty in a single Parliament since records began.

[Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) (Lab)]

8. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the state pension increase in April 2026 on pensioners.