Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 97449

Universal Credit

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 12 December 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, further to question 95498 if he will make an assessment of the impact for his policies of the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation entitled Guarantee our Essentials: reforming Universal Credit to

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
As I set out in the response I gave on 4 December 2025 to PQ UIN 95498, this government is taking important steps to tackle child poverty and improve the support we provide people with their living costs. There is no overall agreed approach to benchmark b...

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