The right hon. Gentleman highlights the 5.2% increase last year. I have not yet heard Opposition Members congratulate the Government on that, but I congratulate the Government now. Does he agree that one of the worst things—for decades far too little was done to fix it—was the benefits trap, whereby people discovered that when they started to work part time, they ended up with less money than they had before? I hope that this entire House could agree that that is fundamentally wrong. It has affected some of my constituents and has not yet been fixed sufficiently.
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Huppert
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 21 January 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
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