Penny Mordaunt
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(14 years, 1 month ago)
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Danny Alexander
The welfare reforms that we are proposing are designed to support people off benefit and into work. That is the whole point of the reforms that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions outlined last week. The reforms that will create a universal credit and some of the changes that we announced in the spending review are all there to help people off benefit and into work, and to help people get jobs, which is what the hon. Gentleman should support.
Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North) (Con)
Can the Chancellor confirm that, unlike the shadow Chancellor, he is not an instinctive cutter?
Mr Osborne
I did see that rather remarkable comment from the shadow Chancellor over the weekend. We are doing what we are doing because we have to—because of the size of the Budget deficit.