Chris Bryant MP, Labour’s Shadow Welfare Reform Minister, said:

“The Government’s complete failure to get a grip of benefit overpayments, fraud and error is costing taxpayers billions of pounds every year.

‘It says everything about the priorities of the Tory-led government that they are forcing people to pay their cruel Bedroom Tax while failing to tackle soaring levels of benefit overpayments. The Prime Minister must take urgent action to tackle the chaos over benefit overpayments at the Department for Work and Pensions.”