Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 26 August 2025Answered: 1 September 2025

Asked by

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Torsten Bell)

The hon. Lady only had to wait till next week’s Treasury questions, when she could have asked her question, but she has the same answer. What we should do is look at the record of parties and what they have done. When I look back over the last 14 years of Tory Budgets, I see a party— [ Interruption. ] And the Lib Dems; thank you for pointing that out. I have seen parties chopping and changing pension tax relief left, right and centre, because they had no plan. Those were the same Budgets that drove child poverty up and wages down.