The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Thérèse Coffey, responded to the four nations committee chairs’ joint letter calling for the uplift to be kept by saying that the Government is prioritising getting people into work, ignoring the 1.7 million people on universal credit who the Department for Work and Pensions does not expect to get or find work and the almost two fifths of universal credit recipients who are already in work but still need to use services such as the Paul’s Parcels (Food Poverty Prevention Group) food bank in Shotts, which I visited...