Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 96710

Social Security Benefits: Unemployment

Tabled: 3 December 2025
Answered: 12 December 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
No such analysis has been undertaken.