| Heading: |
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse |
| Question ID: |
1798585 |
| UIN: |
49044 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4790 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Apsana Begum
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Apsana Begum
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed cut to (a) the Universal Credit health element and (b) PIP on survivors of domestic abuse. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-08 |
| 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: |
The information required to make such an assessment is not readily available. This is because to identify survivors of domestic abuse would require manual processing of claimant information, and the information would only be available where it is included... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |