The High Court set out quite clearly that successive Governments had taken a measured approach in recognising the inequality in the state

Universal credit payment timeliness continues to improve and is near a record high, with the most recent data showing we paid 83% of new

It is a pleasure to be in the Chamber as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, leading a fantastic Department that serves people from

I refer the hon. Lady to the judgment that the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon.

I have just laid out that we increased the amount of money for discretionary housing payments.

The right hon.

The hon.

That is simply not the case.

The Department’s resource budget will increase by 1.9% ahead of inflation for the first time since 2011, enabling us to provide excellent

Such decisions need to be made fairly soon, and I am conscious of the analysis presented to me and the Under-Secretary of State for Work