Question follow-through · 99857
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2025 to UIN 96251, whether his Department plans to make an estimate of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autu
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2025 to UIN 96251, whether his Department plans to make an estimate of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autu
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The department does publish quarterly benefit cap statistics about the number of households that have been capped but this does not provide a breakdown of exemptions nor go into an individual exemption breakdown level. These were last published on 16 Dece...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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