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- Tories In 'Deliberate Deception' Over Universal Credit Claim
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Thursday, 10 July 2014
Tories In 'Deliberate Deception' Over Universal Credit Claim
TORY ministers were accused of a “deliberate act of deception” yesterday after claiming plans to roll out the universal credit (UC) benefit had Treasury support.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith both faced awkward questions in the Commons.
In a blistering attack across the dispatch box, shadow welfare reform minister Chris Bryant said the pair “misled” Parliament over whether the Treasury had approved their business case for UC.
Mr Cameron had said the budget for the scheme was signed-off annually by the Treasury.
But Mr Bryant said: “It’s depressing that this Tory minister and the Tory Prime Minister can’t tell the difference between an annual budget and a business case — it’s pretty straightforward.
“The same simple question has now been answered eight contradictory ways — not everybody can be telling the truth.
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