| Heading: |
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Northern Ireland |
| Question ID: |
1819126 |
| UIN: |
64798 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4857 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Carla Lockhart
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| Asking Member handle: |
carlalockhart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@carlalockhart
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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 proposed reforms to (a) PIP and (b) Universal Credit on (i) community cohesion and (ii) equitable access to benefits in Northern Irelan |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-11 |
| 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: |
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit (UC) are administered in Northern Ireland by the Department for Communities (DfC). DfC is responsible for producing analysis on how proposed reforms would impact claimants in Northern Ireland. |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |