Question follow-through · 63044
Basic Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
Universal Basic Income is not being considered as an alternative social security system by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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