Question follow-through · 63046
Basic Income: Innovation and New Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on levels of (a) entrepreneurship and (b) innovati
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on levels of (a) entrepreneurship and (b) innovati
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
Universal Basic Income is not a government policy and therefore no assessments are planned related to international trials.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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