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Universal Credit: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the level of saving from freezing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms at £97 per week until 2029-30 for existing recipients.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the level of saving from freezing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms at £97 per week until 2029-30 for existing recipients.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The table below breaks down the overall savings into the static savings of the two policies and the impact of the expected behavioural changes. The behavioural changes are the expected impact of both policies on claimant behaviour. DWP costings are produc...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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