<p>Universal Credit</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 5 April 2017.

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Photo of Carl Sargeant Carl Sargeant Labour 2:22, 5 April 2017

Statistics, statistics, statistics. What worries me is what’s actually happening on the ground in our communities, when I and you will see your postbag filled with people experiencing difficulty with universal credit and the credit reform. It was rolled out first of all in Flintshire in my own constituency, actually, so I’ve seen an increase in pressures there. But I can’t see anybody in this room, irrespective of politics—. The fact that 18 to 21-year-olds now will be having the removal of any housing benefit claim—what happens to those young people? Where do they go for their housing solutions? People will be put on the streets. A thousand young people in Wales are being committed to things that shouldn’t be happening to very young people in our communities.