| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Health |
| Question ID: |
1817644 |
| UIN: |
63563 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3973 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Grahame Morris
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| Asking Member handle: |
grahamemorris
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@grahamemorris
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will clarify whether people in receipt of legacy benefits who are migrated to Universal Credit through the managed migration process will be treated as new claimants for the purposes of the healt |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-03 |
| 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 Department plans to complete migration of ESA claimants to UC by March 2026. As part of this ESA claimants will be migrated to the UC Health Element. To protect any claimants who have not migrated by April 2026 we intend to mirror as closely as possib... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |