MPs are due to vote on cutting disability and sickness benefits worth around £5bn but number of Labour MPs signing amendment is growing
The work and pensions committee hearing with Stephen Timms, the social security and disabilities minister, has just started. There is a live feed here.
Good morning. MPs are due to vote on the universal credit (UC) and personal independent payments (Pip) bill next week, the legislation enacting the disability and sickness benefit cuts worth around £5bn. As Pippa Crerar and Aletha Adu report in our overnight story, Keir Starmer insisted yesterday that he was pressing ahead with the plans.
