Tories Turn Fire On NAO Over Damning UC Report

Forced on the defensive by the damning NAO assessment of Universal Credit (UC) Tories turned their fire on – the NAO. With a little of the ‘the last Labour government’ thrown in. Architect of the ‘reform’ Iain Duncan Smith led the charge calling the NAO report  – which branded UC a major failure of public policy – as a “shoddy piece of work” that didn’t account for a series of issues. “Not least of which are that the Treasury signed off annual recurring savings of £8bn and, more importantly, that the changes last November and December have made a huge difference to people’s lives,” he said. Read more on 24housing.

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