Universal Credit

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:54 am on 23 November 2017.

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Photo of David Gauke David Gauke The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 11:54, 23 November 2017

The flexibility of the advance system means that nobody is left without any financial support at all. Compared with the legacy systems, such as JSA, universal credit will provide more support to people earlier. I will consider a large-print version of the documentation and, perhaps on another occasion, I would happily debate the tax credits system with him at some length—not only the disincentives within the system but the huge difficulties that its roll-out caused back in 2003, which were still reverberating when I entered the House in 2005.