Universal credit delays a factor in prostitution, government accepts

Minister apologises for DWP memo dismissing link between long waits and survival sex. The government has dropped its hardline refusal to accept that destitution caused by five-week waits for universal credit payments has been a major factor in forcing some women to turn to prostitution. Giving evidence to the work and pensions select committee, the minister for family support, Will Quince, apologised for a memo his department sent to the committee last month and said it “did not very well