Following the government’s admission that more Universal Credit promises have been broken, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Work and Pensions, Rachel Reeves MP said,

“The only person who believes Iain Duncan Smith’s promises on Universal Credit is Iain Duncan Smith.

“Iain Duncan Smith promised Universal Credit would save taxpayers £1.7billion in reduced error and fraud. But now he’s admitted the government has cut the amount of planned savings by two thirds.

“Iain Duncan Smith promised one million people would be claiming Universal Credit by April 2014. But the latest figures only 26,940 people on the new benefit. At this rate it will take 1571 years to roll out Universal Credit. 

“Iain Duncan Smith promised there would be more winners than losers from the introduction of Universal Credit. But he needs to come clean about how many people will lose out if Universal Credit is ever successfully rolled out.

“Labour wants Universal Credit to work and we’ll call in the National Audit Office to do an immediate review of this failing programme to get a grip of the spiralling waste and delays.”