PENSION CREDIT - DEBATE AND VOTE

That this House takes note of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I., 2019 No. 37 (C.1)), dated 14 January 2019; considers that such changes which could see mixed age couples being £7,000 worse off a year should not be introduced without a debate and vote on the Floor of the House; notes that the parent Act for this Order received Royal Assent seven years ago in 2012 under a different Government and it is therefore all the more important MPs are given the opportunity to scrutinise these changes, and calls on the Government to give the House an opportunity to debate the instrument.