Friends target MPs over welfare

Friends contacted MPs in the run-up to last week’s second reading of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill

by Tara Craig 31st July 2015

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and individual Friends contacted members of parliament (MPs) in the run-up to last week’s second reading of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to highlight the affects it will have on the poorest and most vulnerable.

BYM staff developed a briefing for MPs. In it, they described Friends as ‘concerned that the welfare elements of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill will increase already unacceptable levels of poverty, and economic and social inequality’.