Question follow-through · 78599
Universal Credit: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the forthcoming changes to Universal Credit Health element for new applicants from 2026 on costs to local government.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the forthcoming changes to Universal Credit Health element for new applicants from 2026 on costs to local government.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department set out its plans to monitor and evaluate the changes in the published Impact Assessment. Around 4 million households will benefit overall from Government’s decision to increase the Universal Credit (UC) standard allowance – estimated to be...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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