Richard will be voting against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill today.
Richard Fuller MP said:
This Bill is the wrong way to tackle the country’s ballooning welfare costs. The Bill lacks any coherent logic about why these particular changes are the right ones and there is little confidence across all political parties that the Bill - even its amended form - will achieve any savings.
The truth is this Bill was “rushed for Rachel” - a desperate effort earlier in the Spring to find £5 billion in savings because the Chancellor had lost control of the public finances.
Don’t get me wrong. Both I and the wider Conservative Party want more significant rollbacks in the benefits bill. Under the coalition and under Prime Minister David Cameron we made significant changes. They were difficult to implement but they were based on years of preparation and with a guiding mission to get people into work. We didn’t get everything right but this Bill is just a bad Bill that lacks any public purpose and is not a serious attempt to reform and reduce benefits payments in our country.
