Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99857
Social Security Benefits
Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Named DayQuestion
Helen Whately
Conservative — Faversham and Mid Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2025 to UIN 96251, whether his Department plans to make an estimate of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autu
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsThe 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...
ⓘ
This is an extract from the Parliament API. Search the full answer on Parliament.uk (UIN 99857) →