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Poverty: Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on the number of benefit claimants at risk of poverty in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on the number of benefit claimants at risk of poverty in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts. An assessment of the poverty impacts of the reforms is not available at the constituency or l...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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