Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

“What assessment she has made of the effect of universal credit on self-employed people.”

Tabled: 20 December 2018Answered: 7 January 2019

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs (Dame Angela Eagle)

The Government recognise the importance of wholesale markets for the customers and communities they serve. We have limited recent evidence, however, of the impact that public ownership of markets has on food security.