| Heading: |
Employment: Social Security Benefits |
| Question ID: |
1788334 |
| UIN: |
40989 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
415 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that changes to (a) Universal Credit taper rates and (b) other benefits (i) encourage more people into work and (ii) support people in work. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
As the Chancellor has set out, this Government is reforming the social security system to support people into work, while protecting people who will never be able to – making the system sustainable so that it is there to help those of us that need it now ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |