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Universal Credit

Asked by Andy McDonaldLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 11 April 2025UIN 43878

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the aggregate financial value of the proposed changes to Universal Credit Health rates for people in each Parliamentary constituency.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

Information on the impacts of the “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper” will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement.

However, the OBR does not publish impacts of policies at a more localised level.

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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