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Universal Credit: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

Asked by Andy McDonaldLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 25 March 2025UIN 39846

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of future (a) applicants and (b) recipients for the health element of universal credit in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency as a result of the green paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published alongside the Spring Statement.

A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.

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