Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

Labour — Suffolk Coastal

Speaking in the House of Commons on 30 June 2025

Debate

Welfare Reform

Contribution

I thank the Secretary of State for listening to the concerns of Back Benchers and for making some real and meaningful improvements based on the concerns that we have been raising privately. I also thank her for confirming explicitly, a moment ago, that my constituents who are reassessed post November 2026 will be reassessed under the current system. May I gently encourage the Secretary of State to go further and to overhaul and radically rethink the role of jobcentres? Far too often, they hold people back rather than breaking down the barriers to people’s progress into work.

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