Question follow-through · 52532
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate she of the potential impact of changes to (a) PIP entitlement rules, (b) the Universal Credit health element and (c) the Universal Credit standard allowance and (d) all thre
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate she of the potential impact of changes to (a) PIP entitlement rules, (b) the Universal Credit health element and (c) the Universal Credit standard allowance and (d) all thre
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
An assessment of the potential impact of the planned changes to health and disability benefits is available here: Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts. This includes breakdowns for each change separately on levels of pover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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