Question follow-through · 53780
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing flexibility within Universal Credit to enable greater labour market engagement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing flexibility within Universal Credit to enable greater labour market engagement.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
This Government committed in its manifesto to review Universal Credit, to reduce poverty and make work pay. We believe that work continues to be the best way out of poverty, and growing the economy and driving up living standards across the country is thi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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