Government figures say that there have been 477,000 new universal credit claims in the past nine days, and social media is full of accounts of some 30,000 or 40,000 people being in the queue just to apply. What steps will be taken to ensure that everyone can get access to the provisions to which the Minister has referred?
Coronavirus Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
(Green Party)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 25 March 2020.
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and
Debate on bills on Coronavirus Bill.
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