TORY ministers were accused of a “deliberate act of deception” yesterday after claiming plans to roll out the universal credit (UC) benefit had Treasury support. 

Prime Minister David Cameron and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith both faced awkward questions in the Commons. 

In a blistering attack across the dispatch box, shadow welfare reform minister Chris Bryant said the pair “misled” Parliament over whether the Treasury had approved their business case for UC.