Employment and Support Allowance

(asked on 9th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 2.115 of the Summer Budget 2015, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effects of a four-year freeze on employment and support allowance on people with long-term disabilities; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 15th October 2015

The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html

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