Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 63685

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Care Leavers

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 3 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

LabourClapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to universal credit and personal independence payments on the number of care leavers in poverty.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The data are not available to make an assessment on this basis.