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Social Security Benefits: Reform

Asked by Graeme DownieLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 31 March 2025UIN 40723

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has conducted an equality impact assessment on proposals in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

We published an Equality Analysis and Policy Rationale impacts alongside the Spring Statement. Further analysis for the measures in the Green Paper, not included in the Spring Statement, will be published in due course.

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