| Heading: |
Universal Credit |
| Question ID: |
1821876 |
| UIN: |
66883 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5359 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people in the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group will be classed as being a new claimant when they migrate onto Universal Credit for the purposes of the Universal Credit Bill. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-17 |
| 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: |
We are rebalancing Universal Credit to fix a system which encourages people to claim health benefits and shuts the out of employment support. It’s a targeted reform that protects those with the most serious, long-term conditions and existing claimants, wh... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |