Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy press release entitled Millions of Britons to be able to request flexible working on day one of employment, published 5 December 2022, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of these measures on the condition of Universal Credit recipients in Newcastle upon Tyne; and if his Department will make an estimate of the potential impact of these measures on the number of Universal Credit recipients in Newcastle upon Tyne.
No such assessment has been made.