Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99852

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autumn Budget 2025.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The department does publish quarterly benefit cap statistics about the number of households that have been capped but this does not provide a breakdown of exemptions nor go into an individual exemption breakdown level. These were last published on 16 Dece...

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