Emma Harrison, the government's 'families tsar' told Radio 5 live she is concerned that benefits will be capped at £26,000.

Ministers are in danger of chasing positive headlines and ratings at the expense of Britain’s poorest families, says adviser of back-to-work scheme

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): This is rightly difficult territory. I am relieved to hear that Ministers have reconsidered the transitional arrangements, and I am pleased that the Opposition welcome that. In the noise and heat of the debate, important truths are getting lost or ignored. We are not generous enough towards the disabled, and

Ministers announce fund to provide short-term money for families with acute childcare needs after seeing off amendments from the House of Lords

Labour has just marched into the trap that George Osborne set them and voted against the benefits cap — again. As one gleeful Tory says, ‘we’re going to make sure everyone in the country knows how they voted on this.’   I suspect that in every Labour-held marginal that the Tories need to win to get a majority in 2015 the benefit cap will feature prominently on Tory lit...

The shadow employment minister Stephen Timms says it would be wrong to overturn amendments made to the government's welfare bill in the House of Lords.

As expected, the Tories did everything they could to make the benefit cap the subject of PMQs. One Tory MP managed to slip in a question on it just before Miliband got up, allowing Cameron to press the Labour leader on the issue even before he had started speaking. Tory MPs kept coming back to the benefit cap — there were five questions on it in all — allowing Cameron to repeatedly moc...

David Cameron said he was prepared to 'battle all the way' to ensure his controversial welfare reforms which see benefits capped, will go ahead.

The new LDV members’ survey is now live. So if you are one of the c.1,300 registered members of the Liberal Democrat Voice forum — and any paid-up party member is welcome to join — then you now have the opportunity to make your views known. Questions we’re asking this month include: what you think

Some thoughts from Dave Parks on Housing Benefit and Housing . There has been a lot of fuss recently about high level benefit payments. One major component of high benefit payments is costs in terms of Housing Benefit for the unfortunate people stuck in private sector housing. I'm struck by the fact that you can often see "To Let" signs on the council estates around Exeter were I live. It str...