Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 61479

Universal Credit

Tabled: 20 June 2025
Answered: 25 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Sir Julian Lewis

ConservativeNew Forest East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Trussell document entitled Guarantee our essentials, published in June 2025, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the re

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
No assessment has been made.Subject to Parliamentary approval, the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill legislates for the first sustained above inflation rise in the basic rate of Universal Credit since it was introduced. This increase...

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