Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Timms and Euan Stainbank

Monday 8th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Sir Stephen Timms]

Whether people get PIP is not about whether they can work—they may be working or not. The limited capability for work-related activity part of universal credit is about whether or not a person can work, but I will be very happy to have a conversation with the hon. Lady about what has happened.

[Euan Stainbank (Falkirk) (Lab)]

Some 1,750 kids in Falkirk, most of whom have a parent in work, will be lifted from poverty and its lifelong economic consequences by the fully funded lifting of the two-child cap. Does the Minister agree that the cost of this poverty-alleviation policy is far less than the long-term cost of leaving those parents in poverty?