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Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Benefits (Expenditure) ( 1 Sep 2014)

Emma Lewell-Buck: The Government claim that they are tackling what they call dependency on welfare. In the north-east, the number of working households claiming housing benefit has shot up by two thirds because wages are failing to keep up with rent. Will the Secretary of State admit that without action to tackle low pay or deal with soaring rents, the welfare bill will continue to rise?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Benefits (Expenditure) ( 1 Sep 2014)

Iain Duncan Smith: The figure the hon. Lady did not give is that out-of-work housing benefit claims are falling, and that is because people who were claiming it are now going into work. That means that they are earning more money, which means that the likelihood of their being in poverty is far less. I wonder whether the hon. Lady would like to get up sometime and congratulate us on getting more people back to...


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