Question follow-through · 33620
Statutory Sick Pay: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the level of Statutory Sick Pay on trends in the number of people claiming Universal Credit.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the level of Statutory Sick Pay on trends in the number of people claiming Universal Credit.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department has not made an assessment of the impact of the level of Statutory Sick Pay on trends in the number of people claiming Universal Credit.The Department has undertaken a Regulatory Impact Assessment and an Equality Impact Assessment of the St...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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