Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

“What recent assessment she has made of the potential effect of removing the £20 uplift to universal credit on recipients of that benefit.”

Tabled: 11 May 2021Answered: 17 May 2021

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Fleur Anderson)

I am delighted to be appointed to this role, and I look forward to working closely with Executive Ministers to see public services transformed in Northern Ireland. I will be meeting the First and Deputy First Ministers tomorrow in Stormont, as well as the Northern Ireland Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt.