Food-related Crime - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 1:41 pm on 22 February 2021.

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Photo of Baroness Meacher Baroness Meacher Crossbench 1:41, 22 February 2021

My Lords, in the 1970s I wrote a book based on a survey on the consequences of benefit withdrawal and found that, typically, claimants were driven to crime. Have Her Majesty’s Government undertaken any recent research into the consequences of the very low universal credit rates, the sanctions regime and the deductions taken from benefits to repay loans early on in the claim? If not, would the Minister be good enough to ask the DWP to undertake such research into the crime effects—if you like—of the benefits system?