Stephen Timms
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Alok Sharma
As I have just said, 85% of childcare costs can be recouped under universal credit, which is an improvement on the legacy system.
Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)
I welcome the reports of imminent reform. Ministers can justify the five-week delay in universal credit only in cases where people have just left a monthly paid job. Yesterday, he told the House:
“The five-week wait has no savings implications for the Exchequer.”—[Official Report, 15 October 2018; Vol. 647, c. 395.]
Will he therefore now scrap it?