Disability equality charity Scope is urging the UK Government to keep a promise to uprate benefits in line with inflation. It comes after Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Philp declined to say whether benefits will be uprated in line with inflation next year.
He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “There’s a statutory process, a legal process which the Government goes through every year, it’s led by the DWP [ Department for Work and Pensions ] Secretary [Chloe Smith], it happens as a matter of routine every autumn.
“That will happen this autumn in the normal way and, when the welfare secretary has made - in consultation with other colleagues in Government - a decision, it’ll get announced to Parliament in the normal way. I’m not going to pre-empt that by making any sort of commitment one way or the other - it’s up to that process to carry on as normal.”
