Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Thérèse Coffey and Alex Norris

Monday 27th January 2020 Commons Chamber

[Dr Coffey]

To be open, I am not aware of the study to which the hon. Lady refers. I will find out about it after questions, so I can send her an answer in writing. As I have mentioned to the House before, food bank use is not what we want to see in the long term. The best way to get out of poverty is through work, which is why we will continue to help people up the escalator of career progression.

[Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op)]

Disability Direct in my constituency has a success rate of more than two thirds when helping claimants to overturn disability-related assessment decisions. Do Ministers not recognise that a welfare system that is so wrong so often is simply broken?