Baroness Buscombe thinks sdp being introduced into UC…

Rather bizarre comment by Baroness Buscombe (the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the DWP) at the end of a debate about the two child policy yesterday - disabled children aren’t penalised in UC and the sdp is being introduced -

My Lords, I do not accept that disabled children in such families are penalised by universal credit. We spend more than £50 billion a year on benefits to support those with disabilities, including children. Let me be clear: we are making sure we do all that we can to support people, particularly children, through the introduction of the severe disability premium.

To be fair she did not actually answer a single question

A recent complaint of mine to DWP about hardship caused by loss of SDP was answered with a statement that the SDP is part of the LCWRA element. So that was me told.