My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. The Select Committee will certainly be looking at that. We are conducting an inquiry later this year on the question of the level of benefits, and the issue of how benefits should be uprated will certainly feature. I am intrigued to learn that the Secretary of State was able to do that in the 1970s given that we have been told that the IT systems in the 2020s cannot cope with it. I am certainly interested in seeing more on that.
Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stephen Timms
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 22 June 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Social Security (Additional Payments) Bill.
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