Question follow-through · 49522
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling local authorities access to up-to-date Universal Credit claimant data for all claimants in their area.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling local authorities access to up-to-date Universal Credit claimant data for all claimants in their area.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recognises the benefits of further Universal Credit data sharing with Local Authorities to support vulnerable citizens.DWP is working on a project to do exactly this, and aims to have delivered a test version to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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