Basic Income

(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source
Questioner
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy
(Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of Universal Basic Income on (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty in the UK.

Answered by
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Alison McGovern
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 2nd July 2025

Universal Basic Income is not being considered as an alternative social security system by the Department for Work and Pensions.

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