Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment he has undertaken on the potential effect of removing the uplift in universal credit on (a) elderly people, (b) disabled people and (c) single parents.

Since the start of the pandemic, the Government’s priority has been to protect lives and people’s livelihoods. That is why the Chancellor announced an extension to the temporary £20 a week increase in Universal Credit for a further six months, taking it well beyond the end of this national lockdown.