Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 41664

Social Security Benefits: Reform

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National PartyAberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed reductions in the welfare budget on local government services.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
No assessment has been made.A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.