| Heading: |
Employment and Support Allowance: Uprating |
| Question ID: |
1808952 |
| UIN: |
57141 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5322 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Will Forster
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| Asking Member handle: |
WillForster
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@WillForster
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people on legacy Employment and Support Allowance receive the same inflation increase as people on other benefits. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
| 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: |
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a single benefit with two strands, contribution-based ESA, ESA C (which was rebadged New Style ESA (NS ESA)), and income-related ESA (ESA IR). Legacy ESA is made up of a contributory (ESA C) and income-related str... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |