Question follow-through · 64008
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, columns 23-25, whether (a) the cost of changes to her welfare reform proposals include the cost of the new severe conditions group
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, columns 23-25, whether (a) the cost of changes to her welfare reform proposals include the cost of the new severe conditions group
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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7 Jul 2025
Answer published
We published Impact Assessments alongside this Bill in the usual way. These set out who will be impacted, the financial implications of the changes and equality analysis.To account for the proposed changes to the Bill, the Impact Assessment will be revise...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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