Universal Credit: Low-Income Families

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Stuart Andrew Stuart Andrew Assistant Whip, Assistant Whip (HM Treasury), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales 12:00, 25 April 2018

I think it is widely accepted that there are many reasons why people use food banks, and many different issues. Even the all-party parliamentary group on hunger and food poverty has accepted that. We have rolled out universal credit slowly and made changes when we have considered them to be necessary, and we continue to do so.