Cameron backs Universal Credit

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David Cameron has given his strong personal backing to the Government's flagship Universal Credit welfare reform programme, after it was savaged in a highly-critical report for "weak management, ineffective control and poor governance".

Whitehall spending watchdog the National Audit Office said that £34 million had already been wasted in the preparations for Universal Credit, which will integrate several means-tested benefits into a single payment.