Oral QuestionDepartment for International Trade

What recent progress she has made with her non-EU counterparts on negotiations for future trade agreements with those countries.

Tabled: 2 March 2020Answered: 5 March 2020

Asked by

Dr Rupa Huq

LabourEaling Central and Acton

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for International Trade

Answer from Hansard

Sir Stephen Timms

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The threshold will increase on 7 April next year, and all current claimants will receive an annual uprating letter in the spring that will set out the new limit. As I mentioned a moment ago, 60,000 new unpaid carers will also become eligible for the allowance at that point.