Question follow-through · 9462
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department's review of Universal Credit will include the income threshold used to determine eligibility for (a) free school meals and (b) the NHS Healthy Start scheme.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department's review of Universal Credit will include the income threshold used to determine eligibility for (a) free school meals and (b) the NHS Healthy Start scheme.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
Eligibility criteria, including earnings thresholds for passported benefits including Free School Meals and Healthy Start payments are owned by Department of Education and the Department of Health and Social care respectively.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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