Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 43245

Poverty: Somerset

Tabled: 1 April 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Adam Dance

Liberal DemocratYeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on the number of benefit claimants at risk of poverty in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.

Answer

Alison McGovern

The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts.

An assessment of the poverty impacts of the reforms is not available at the constituency or local authority area level.