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Basic Income: Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Asked by Bell Ribeiro-AddyLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 3 July 2025UIN 63045

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on (a) workplace productivity and (b) job satisfac

Answered by Justin Madders

Universal Basic Income is not a government policy and therefore no assessments are planned related to international trials.

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