Question follow-through · 69836
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on levels of child poverty.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on levels of child poverty.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has published an updated assessment of the poverty impacts of the benefit changes announced at Spring Statement with revisions to reflect the proposed changes since tabled, which includes changes to Universal Credit. This estimates that the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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