Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 47068

Social Security Benefits: Children

Tabled: 22 April 2025

Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal Democrat — Tiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she make an assessment of the adequacy of levels of welfare support for children within married families.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

We will bring in a permanent, above inflation, rise to the standard allowance in Universal Credit for the first time ever by raising the standard allowance above inflation from 2026/27 until 2029/30. This is in stark contrast to the freeze between 2016/17...

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