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Social Security Benefits: Reform

Asked by Neil Duncan-JordanLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 28 March 2025UIN 40101

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of households that will receive (a) up to £25, (b) between £25 and £50, (c) between £50 and £75, (d) between £75 to £100 and (e) more than £100 less per week as a result of proposals in Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

No such estimates have been made.

Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course with some information published this week 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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