Social Security Benefits
(asked on 7th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the advice provided to them as part of the statutory review of benefit cap levels.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 16th June 2023
Under S96A of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, the Secretary of State is required to undertake a review of the benefit cap levels at least once every five years. There is no statutory requirement to publish any advice given to inform that review; and as such there are no plans to do so. This has been the policy under this and previous Governments.