Part of Domestic Abuse Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 4:30 pm ar 16 Mehefin 2020.
Jess Phillips
Shadow Minister (Home Office), Shadow Minister (Domestic Violence and Safeguarding)
4:30,
16 Mehefin 2020
Often the words that get read out bear no relation to the experience that we feel on the ground, whether as a benefit claimant or and as somebody supporting benefit claimants. With that idea that single payments are somehow safer and better, it is noble of the Minister to try to argue that universal credit going to one person in the household is better for victims of domestic abuse, but it is genuinely—
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