Basic Income: Innovation and New Businesses

(asked on 26th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of international trials of universal basic income on levels of (a) entrepreneurship and (b) innovation in (i) small businesses and (ii) start-ups.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 3rd July 2025

Universal Basic Income is not a government policy and therefore no assessments are planned related to international trials.

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