Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 27 January 2020.
Margaret Greenwood
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government pushed through regulations on the managed migration of universal credit pilot only days before the summer recess without giving Members of this House a vote, as promised. In October, the Secretary of State said she was “surprised” by the small number of people who transferred in the pilot. How many claims have now been processed, and how can a pilot of up to 10,000 households possibly give a realistic picture of how transferring more than 2 million people could work?
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