Question follow-through · 67964
Employment and Poverty: Basic Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what lessons she has learnt from international trials on Universal Basic Income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what lessons she has learnt from international trials on Universal Basic Income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. member to the answer I gave on 2 July to PQ 62240.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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