Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, commenting on the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s damning criticism of the government’s Bedroom Tax said:

‘Half a million people have been hit by the Bedroom Tax and the government’s own figures say that two thirds of those affected are disabled. It’s completely unfair that so many are charged for the space they use to store essential medical equipment such as dialysis machines.

'Britain can’t afford another year of David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s tax on bedrooms. If they won’t listen to the country and scrap their hated Bedroom Tax, then a Labour government will.“

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