Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effects on levels of food poverty in (a) Newport West and (b) Wales of removing the £20 uplift to universal credit.
Since the start of the pandemic this Government has introduced a range of temporary emergency measures to help the hardest hit, including the Job Retention Scheme, the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme, and the temporary £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit standard allowance.
The Chancellor has confirmed the Universal Credit uplift until March 2021. As the Government has done throughout this pandemic, it will continue to assess how best to support low-income families, which is why we will look at the economic and health context before making any decisions.