Covid-19: Employment Support

Part of Wales – in the House of Commons at on 3 February 2021.

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Photo of Nia Griffith Nia Griffith Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

The last year has been immensely challenging for many Welsh families, who have seen their lives completely upended by the virus. Despite welcome progress on vaccinations, the pandemic is not going away overnight, and many still feel grave uncertainty about the future of their jobs and their family finances, so why do the Government think that now is the time to cut universal credit by £1,000 a year, hitting more than 200,000 Welsh families who are doing their best to get by?