| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Deductions |
| Question ID: |
1798305 |
| UIN: |
48932 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4357 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kirsty Blackman
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| Asking Member handle: |
KirstySNP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@KirstySNP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5974 on Universal Credit: Children, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of deductions from Universal Credit payments |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
| 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: |
Estimating the impact of deductions on trends in poverty is complex as stopping deductions would result in a build-up of arrears of the range of debts a customer has and stop vital obligations such as child maintenance being paid.The government is committ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |