| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Uprating |
| Question ID: |
1751363 |
| UIN: |
HL3591 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4704 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Boycott
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Boycott
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have assessed the impact on the living standards of different groups of people in receipt of Universal Credit resulting from the difference between the benefit uprating of 1.7 per cent from April 2025 and a hig |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4147 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Sherlock
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| Answering Member handle: |
MaeveSherlock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@MaeveSherlock
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| Answer text: |
The Secretary of State undertakes an annual review of benefits and pensions. The latest figure that the Secretary of State can use is the Consumer Price Index in the year to September to allow sufficient time for the required legislative and operational c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |