I am glad that the Chair of the Select Committee has raised the benefits freeze. Our research through the Library shows that this final year of the benefits freeze is due to raise an extra £1.2 billion in savings for the Treasury, because of increased inflation. Does he not agree that, as a result, this Government should scrap the final year of the freeze?
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Neil Gray
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 February 2019.
It occurred during Estimates day on Department for Work and Pensions.
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