| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits |
| Question ID: |
1760878 |
| UIN: |
27836 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
410 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jon Trickett
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| Asking Member handle: |
jon_trickett
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@jon_trickett
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on in-work benefits in the last 12 months. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
There are no DWP benefits remaining that are solely payable to claimants in-work. Many allow for some element of earnings to be combined with benefit receipt, and the level of this spend on working as opposed to non-working claimants varies across differe... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |