Would rent controls be the worst method of controlling housing benefit aside from all the others? With its mixture of good ideas and painful ones, the Welfare Reform Bill going through Parliament is causing more anguish among Liberal Democrats than anything since… Well, since the last horrible compromise the Coalition Government came up with. The logic is relentless: Labour wrecked the econ...

On Sunday Jenny Willott wrote an article on LDV explaining the reasons behing Lib Dem MPs voting to reject the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill. However, I’m afraid that, as someone who has been campaigning on this for several months, I am not satisfied with her explanation and think that there are several

Senior civil servants are being sent to "leadership school" amid concerns they do not have the skills to run major projects like the Olympics, welfare reforms and new high-speed trains.

Benefits are not an easy subject to get your head around: we have a benefits system with enough acronyms, assessments, taper rates and tax credits to make your head spin. That’s why this Government is finally undertaking a hugely important and long-overdue reform of benefits. Universal Credit will replace the complicated mix of tax credits,

Plans for welfare reform saw the government win the day with a number of concessions as MPs overturned a series of Lords defeats.

David Cameron deployed a controversial parliamentary tactic last night to deny the House of Lords the right to vote as he set out to force his benefit reforms into law.

MPs from Northern Ireland have expressed concerns over changes to the welfare system.

The dispute in the Church of England over welfare reform intensified last night as the former Archbishop of Canterbury was dismissed as a "Thatcherite yesterday's man" by a prominent cleric.

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

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding the welfare debate in the House of Commons, said: