Question follow-through · 127500
Universal Credit: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration his Department makes of trends in the costs of essential goods and services when setting the basic rate of Universal Credit during the uprating process.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration his Department makes of trends in the costs of essential goods and services when setting the basic rate of Universal Credit during the uprating process.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) estimates how the prices of goods and services bought by households rise or fall and is used as an indication of inflation in Universal Credit uprating. Last year, The Secretary of State increased most working age benefits ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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