<p>The Benefit Cap (Torfaen)</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 8 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:14, 8 November 2016

We’ve got the fact that the UK Government has withdrawn benefits to those in work. There was a time that we said to people that if they worked, their circumstances would improve and their incomes would improve, and they have been hammered as a result of actions taken by the UK Government. The bedroom tax is another example of that. I certainly deplore the actions over the last few years, where those who are the most vulnerable have been the ones who have suffered the most, whereas those, of course, at the very top end of the income stream had a tax cut. If there was anything more regressive as a tax policy, then that was it.