Question follow-through · 96710

Social Security Benefits: Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
8 Dec 2025
Answer
12 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon

  2. 8 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    No such analysis has been undertaken.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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