Member

As the Liberal Democrat spokesman, I acknowledge that there needs to be reform of the welfare system. We need to chase down the cost, but this is not the way to do so. Investing to save is the way to make serious change. One investment that we need to undertake is in our NHS. Although we welcome the investment that is currently taking place in the NHS, we know—and I know this from my constituents in Torbay—that there are still people with long-term illnesses who are stuck on universal credit because the health interventions that desperately need to happen have not happened for them.