Responding to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s report “Ministry of Justice follow-up: Autumn 2025” published today, Liz Bayram, Chief Executive of AdviceUK said: “We welcome the Public Accounts Committee’s report, which includes several recommendations AdviceUK has long campaigned for. Our members who provide legal aid services have repeatedly raised these concerns, and it is positive […]

AdviceUK welcomes some positive moves announced in last week’s Budget statement and, in particular, the decision to lift the punishing two-child benefit cap. This is a change our members have long called for and is a clear sign that the Government is listening to the advice sector. Other welcome announcements include measures to address the cost-of-living crisis and the overall uplift to the Ministry […]

Responding to today’s budget announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liz Bayram, Chief Executive of AdviceUK said:   “We are pleased to see the punishing two-child benefit cap lifted – a sign of the Government listening to our members and others in the advice sector. However, the Government needs to go further to tackle poverty by committing to no further damaging cuts to welfare and by funding the advice sector as a key […]

AdviceUK, the UK’s largest network of independent advice services, urges the Government to focus on two priorities in the forthcoming budget – to protect those most at risk from poverty by not introducing further damaging cuts to welfare support and by addressing the chronic underfunding of the overstretched advice sector. In its budget submission last […]