| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses |
| Question ID: |
1795515 |
| UIN: |
46879 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4831 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ian Byrne
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| Asking Member handle: |
IanByrneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@IanByrneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Universal Credit have a terminal condition but do not have a claim under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| 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 information is not available. The Universal Credit system is usually only informed of a terminal illness diagnosis through an application for the Special Rules for End of Life. |
| 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 |