Work and Pensions Minister asked on new bill: ‘how many more children will be in poverty as a result?’

Work and Pensions Minister, Dr Thérèse Coffey, received criticised from Labour’s Jonathon Ashworth for her “real time cuts to support”.

Ashworth told the House that he had “read in the newspaper that the secretary of state was considering resigning over the prime minister’s rule breaking”. And so asked her “before she goes” “how many more children will be in poverty as a result of cuts to support “which will mean 10 million households will lose £290”. 

The minister said that she was “fully behind our prime minister” and that through the bill “getting more people into work, people will be better off”.