| Heading: |
Employment and Support Allowance |
| Question ID: |
1760999 |
| UIN: |
902517 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1524 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Meg Hillier
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| Asking Member handle: |
Meg_HillierMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Meg_HillierMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the fixed disregard rate for the New Style Employment and Support Allowance. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The current disregard was set in 1999. We have no current plans to change it, but I will be interested in any proposals my hon friend brings forward. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |